Fun With My New Vegas Fourteen

Now that I've settled on a "Vegas Fourteen" I thought I'd collate the user reviews from All Vegas Poker and have a bit of fun creating an interesting chart. Ok, this is how it works: as always, they appear on the list in the general order in which they would pop up if you travel up the strip from the south. The first number in the list shows their rank according to how users rate the poker room's overall quality. The second number shows the rank order of the softness of competition, according to AVPers, (1st = softest, 14th=toughest) and the final numbers just shows the minimum to maximum buy-in for the $1/$2 cash games:

1.    Mandalay Bay - SW                 7th            10th              100-300

2.    Luxor - SW                              11th            6th               50-200           

3.    Excalibur - SW                        12th            1st               100-300

4.    MGM Grand - SE                     2nd            7th                60-300

5.    Monte Carlo - SW                    3rd            11th              50-200

6.    Planet Hollywood - CE             4th            5th               100-300

7.    Bally's - CE                              14th            4th               100-300

8.    The Bellagio - CW                   8th            14th              100-200

9.    Bill's Gamblin' Hall - CE         13th            3rd               20-200

10.  Flamingo - CE                         10th            8th              100-300

11.  Imperial Palace - CE                9th            2nd               60-300

12.  Harrah's - CE                           6th            9th                60-300

13.  Mirage -NW                             5th            12th              100-300

14.  The Venetian - NE                   1st            13th              100-300

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Now the interesting thing about this chart (and apart from the fact that I don't know how to change the font colour back to normal) is that a lot of the ones I rejected from the final fourteen (four out of five in fact) including: Tropicana, Aria, Treasure Island and Wynn would have all appeared in the Top 5 under overall room quality. Furthermore, many of these were also rejected due to toughness and cost of playing. (Tropicana, Aria, Ceasars Palace and Wynn would have been in the bottom 7 for soft competition.) So it appears that there's definitely a correlation between luxury, comfort and quality on the one hand, and stiff opposition with the forced higher buy-in on the other. 

This is also born out when we see that the poorer quality rooms like: Bally's, Bill's, Imperial Palace, Excalibur and the rejected O'Shea's all have the supposedly softer competition. Interesting. Oh, liking the Bellagio's tight range when it comes to minimum and maximum buy-ins as well - and check out Bill's minimum buy-in!!

I wonder if I should get out more?