My New Vegas Fourteen

In a previous post, I wrote that I intended to visit twenty poker rooms along the strip. Well, after more research, I've decided to whittle that number down to fourteen. The reason for this is that, not only have I realised that twenty is a bit too many but, some of those original twenty just seem to offer the wrong combination of tough players along with maximum buy-ins that are too high.

My new "Vegas Fourteen" are now as follows:

1.    Mandalay Bay - SW

2.    Luxor - SW

3.    Excalibur - SW

4.    MGM Grand - SE

5.    Monte Carlo - SW

6.    Planet Hollywood - CE

7.    Bally's - CE

8.    The Bellagio - CW

9.    Bill's Gamblin' Hall - CE

10.  Flamingo - CE

11.  Imperial Palce - CE

12.  Harrah's - CE

13.  Mirage -NW

14.  The Venetian - NE

Aria, Ceasars Palace, Treasure Island and Wynn run $1/$3 cash games rather than $1/$2 and the last three of those allow a maximum buy-in of $500. My new "Vegas Fourteen" have maximum buy-ins of between $200 and $300 which is much more comfortable. I will be on holiday after all and I want to relax a little bit rather than worry too much about defending $300-$500 against good players with equal or bigger stacks than yours truly thank you very much! O'Shea's has had to go because it only held $1-$5 "spread" games, whatever they are (and it seems kinda mad/crazy there anyway - although possibly my kind of place to take $50-$100 for a bit of fun), while Tropicana has been lopped off due to lack of information.

I think this new list will be a lot more manageable and will actually keep me a little more focused. Nevertheless, I would still like to visit the other casinos along the strip as well to satisfy my curiosity and to collect the $1 chips for my Vegas chip collection. The "rejected" places are:

1.    New York-New York - SW
2.    Tropicana - SE
3.    Paris - CE
4.    Cosmopolitan - CW
5.    Aria - CW
6.    Ceasars Palace - CW
7.    O'Shea's - CE
8.    Casino Royale - CE
9.    Treasure Island - NW
10.  The Palazzo - NE
11.  Wynn - NE

In upcoming posts I'll start to do charts/lists/ratings/rankings and stuff of my new "Vegas Fourteen" just for the fun of it.