What's New in Las Vegas Poker
Las Vegas Casinos Opening Poker Room after Poker Room
Tuscany, Paris Las Vegas, Las Vegas Hilton, Riviera, Tropicana, Wynn Resort, Silverton, Green Valley Ranch, Stratosphere, MGM Grand. These are all casinos that have opened poker rooms in Las Vegas in just the past 6 months! Live poker (at least here in Vegas) is thriving as much as online poker. Other Las Vegas poker news:
Wynn Resort has started a tournament schedule, $300 + $30 Tue & Thu noon, $500 + $40 Fri 3 PM with single table satellites available earlier in the day.
Festa al Lago series of tourneys coming to Bellagio Oct 8-21, $10,000 buy in main event plus WPT TV event. Other events $1K - $3K buy-ins with satellites starting Oct 7
Tuscany $300 freeroll promotion (no requirements) extended till at least mid Oct., 10 AM starting time $10 re-buys available and more starting chips if you play live hours before.
Stratosphere Opens Poker Room June 3, 2005
The Stratosphere has opened their new poker room and it is getting good reviews already for its clean, comfortable, and roomy atmosphere and friendly personnel. 4 tables are open now, but we believe there will be about 8 tables when everything is in place. 2 tournaments a day Mon-Fri are scheduled, with a $22 buy in at 9:00 AM and $44 buy-in at 8:00 PM. Both tournaments allow 1 rebuy. See the tournament schedule for all casino's tournaments.
Las Vegas Hilton latest to unveil plans for poker room.
The Las Vegas Hilton will be opening a 10 table poker room later this year over by the sportsbook. We don't have all the details, but were able to find out that the projected opening date is in November, 2005. Based on all we've seen in the poker rooms recently opened, this should be a state-of-the-art addition to the poker world. The more the merrier---- there is so much available now that any mood can be met for all tastes and limits. Good luck and enjoy them all!!!!
MGM Grand starting tournament action soon, masseuse for hire in poker room
A busy new poker room on the Las Vegas Strip is about to become busier as of Fri., May 13, 2005. 2 tournaments a day at the MGM Grand was the rumor about 3 weeks ago, we'll see what develops and keep you posted. Also, a massage company has opened for business where they send a masseuse to MGM Grand and offer a massage for $2.00/minute to the poker players, with a 5 minute minimum. Business has been good according to Laurie, the masseuse we interviewed. During the interview, a great big tall guy came up to her wanting a massage, so they went to an empty table and she did her business, but usually she can be found during live action rubbing the neck and shoulders of the poker players. Later at night, we saw 2 others from the company come in offering their services. They plan to branch out to other casinos soon.
Silverton Poker Room opens Memorial Day Weekend, 2005
They were right on schedule at the Silverton Hotel & Casino with their new 5 table poker room. May 28, 2005 was the estimated opening date and they opened right on time. The room is a clean, classy card room. Flagstone rock on at least one wall complements the rustic look of the casino. The chairs and poker tables are first class. Low-limit Texas Hold'em including $2-4 and $3-$6 are the house games with a possiblility of hosting No Limit. Silverton is located in the South Las Vegas Valley off of I-15 at Blue Diamond Road.
Tropicana, Riviera, Wynn Resort, Green Valley Ranch, Stratosphere, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas Hilton all jump on the bandwagon
The Stratosphere, Wynn Resort, Tropicana, and Riviera poker rooms are already open, and Caesars Palace opens theirs in August, 2005. They're opening poker rooms faster than you can say "I'm all in"! MGM Grand did it Mar 28, 2005 (see above), and Green Valley Ranch is maybe 1-2 months away from opening their poker room. Recently, Las Vegas Hilton announced they'll be building a poker room which should be ready about November, 2005. Santa Fe Station opened their's just after the new year 2005 after just missing their planned New Years Eve opening. And in late 2004 (Oct) it was Aladdin, before that Rio. Read all about them right here at vegastexasholdem.net.
World Series of Poker
June 3 to July 15, 2005
43 events including $10,000 buy-in championship event
Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino
The Orleans Open 2005
July 16-31, 2005
17 events plus second chance tourneys every evening at 7PM.
Limit Hold Em events, ladies events, seniors events, 7 card stud, Omaha events
SUN. JULY 31 $1060 BUY-IN NO LIMIT HOLD'EM CHAMPIONSHIP
other events buy-ins range from $125 - $550, 2nd chance events buy-ins are $125
Orleans, just west of the Las Vegas Strip on Tropicana, Las Vegas, NV
Bally's now has tournaments, introduces new "crazy" schedule
The Bally's Poker Room recently decided to cash in on the tournament craze, but with a twist. Their Thursday 11AM tournament is a normal no-limit tournament with a $77.00 buy-in, but their Tuesday and Wednesday tourneys are Pineapple and Crazy Pineapple respectively. Those $50.00 buy-in events are played just like regular no-limit tournaments, but instead of 2 hole cards, each player is given 3 and then discards one of them. In Pineapple, the 3rd card is discarded immediately and in Crazy Pineapple, the discard comes after the flop. Previously, Bally's offered no tournaments.