So I am looking at planning a vegas trip around the middle of october.  I got to looking at ticket prices and hotel prices and figured the whole thing is going to about 800 to 1200 bucks, plus food.  So I was wondering if I am able to play alot of poker, would it be that hard to make that money back and some at the tables.  I plan on playing 1/2 and 4/8 up to 10/20 limit depending on my current bankroll at the time.  Oh I will be staying for 4 to 5 days.

I am goign to vegas to have fun, but I am also going to make some money.  The money I am using to pay for this trip will come out of my poker bankroll so I would like to put it back in and add to it.

ANy opinoins or other games I could play.

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"you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor." I can't covet my neighbors donkey, this blows I am out of here.

If you find the right off-the-strip casinos you could make a killing at no-limit RoShamBo.

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Cool Kid, back by popular demand.

I like the 2/5NL at the MGM Grand.

When you check airfare, be sure to check vacation packages.  If you buy close to your trip, the vacation packages usually give you what amounts to free hotel.  This is assuming you're travelling with someone.

I would also check out some of the cheap tournaments.  The Orleans has some good blind structure ones.  15/30 at Bellagio wasn't bad. 

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In order to live, you must be willing to die.
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Or for your hotel you can get a poker room rate.  Go to www.allvegaspoker.com 

Caesars has a good tourney too.  The one at noon daily is the better one......

For a good cheap tourney - Sahara.  Good structure.  The 7:00pm on seems to have the most people, giving a better pay out. 

in 2005 I was in vegas roughly 5 or 6 times and i loved the sahara tournament but i was back there not a month or two ago and they sped up the blinds, before it was the 7pm tournament which was decent and that was it, now they have a 7pm and 11pm tournament so they try to make sure the thing is sped up.  However for the price it's one of the better tournaments but their cash games there suck, i think their highest limit is 4/8 limit.

Good tournaments are at caesars, good blinds but larger buy ins just 50-100 and one add on.  The plaza has good tournaments but again 100 buy in usually with a single add on but the blinds rock, all other tournaments in town normally suck with fast blinds and small starting stacks they do the tournaments to get you there for the cash games.  Only place that doesn't is Sahara but it's an ehh tournament but unfortunately probably the best for your money in vegas for the price.

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<----I hate tournaments and tournaments hate me, so I'm loading up on all the donkey luck I can for the next ones :-)

I played in the 11:00 pm Sahara tourney last month and the 7:00 was still going on.  1st place was paying like $3000 that night.  Not bad if you buy in for $42 + 20 re-buy.  The 11:00 one didn't pay as much and I don't remember how much it was - too much alcohol!  LOL

The 1/2NL cash game was juicy though!

when i showed up the last time it was ok tournament, after a little while it became a push in game which i hate in tourneys and they couldn't get the 1/2 nl cash game going for lack of people so the biggest game was 2/4 or 3/6 limit holdem, pointless sitting there with 5-7 people to the river, so i played black jack :-) then hit the paris the next day and other casinos the other days.

I do like how they shovel food down your face each night for the 7pm tournament.

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<----I hate tournaments and tournaments hate me, so I'm loading up on all the donkey luck I can for the next ones :-)

If you don't mind going off the strip Binion's has two 60+10 tourenys a day, I think at noon and at seven.  I played 1/2 NL there for a couple days and each tourney I saw had between 100 and 300 people.  Plus the dealers are super cool and I just thought it was fun playing there.  But then again I prefer to do all my gambling downtown.

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It's not cool to puke in my dog's water bowl. You know who I'm talking to Spud.

I will be going down the last week of October.

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I don't even know you and I hate your guts.

LaSeeno:

I will be going down the last week of October.

Dammit i need to go down there during that time, my kids have doctor bills that need to be paid and i have a new addition to the house i want to build and your losses alone could fund that :-)

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<----I hate tournaments and tournaments hate me, so I'm loading up on all the donkey luck I can for the next ones :-)

I need to go too!  I probably won't get to go until next year - unless I win a trip. 

There is a $100 charity buffet w/free Texas Hold 'Em tournament coming up on 9/3 here in Wasilla.  1st prize is a WPT $2500 buy-in at Bellagio (Festa Al Lago Classic October 2 - 19th) including travel expenses.  This might be my only chance to get there again in 2006.

really? who is hosting that and how are tehy affording the free trip and entry to a tournament with no buy in for the event? sounds very interesting though.

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<----I hate tournaments and tournaments hate me, so I'm loading up on all the donkey luck I can for the next ones :-)

Is there a flier available for that? Sounds like something I might be interested in playing.

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"I don't think I had the nuts in that tourney at any point except when I hit quads on the river against Lindy"

I will get you guys a flier.  It's $100 for the buffet - then you get to play in a "Free" tournament.  It's a fund raiser for the iditarod.  I just e-mailed the guy and asked him for a flier.  I will post it when I get it back from him.  I can get you guys tickets too if you want.