I'm planning on moving out for a few months, maybe to stay. I haven't been in town since 2009 probably, before City Center opened. My plan is to take a comfortable amount of cash and fly out, rent a studio for 4-6 months, buy a beater vehicle and see what happens.
My background...
I'm 35 and part owner of a family business, i started playing $4-8 stud in Tunica when I was 19-20. I've been a regular in the big PLO game in Tunica and playing as high as $25-50-100 (under rolled) for years in spurts. My regular home games are 20-40 O8, 2-5-10 foldem and plo. I used to come out 5-6 times a year and played mainly the V 5-10 plo/10-20 mixed game.
I have a legit upper 5 figure roll at this point. My plan is to take $15-20k and start grinding 2-5 plo when possible and 2-5 5-10 no limit and throw in some O8. Move up from there. Im a winning player, I've been around the block, I have no fear of going broke, I have no desire or dreams to try a run it up shot in games over my roll and want to do this so I never wonder what if. I have a job and business to come back to.
What Id like to know from some locals is a good place to live close to B,V,Wynn area. I plan on spending $4-5k for a place for 4-6 months , studio or 1 bedroom is fine, safety is biggest concern. What are games currently like? are games in that range still full of loosing tourists or are there 7 guys trying to do what i am at every table? Advice?

don't read then entire first page of thread options in LVL looking for advice...I see you have already done that tho...

thanks for the input but i didn't want to read trip reports or about guys taking $2k to play 1-2 for a living. I also don't want a link to an apartment search. Somebody here has lived in the area Im talking about and can tell me a specific place they lived or where not too. If this is just another one of those threads to you then don't open the MFer and go on with your life.

then what are you asking?

again...dont read the 1st page of the Las Vegas Lifestyle Forum...and don't use the search function to find your answers...because this is obviously an ENTIRELY unique thread asking about what a safe place to move to with a budget of 1-2k a month would be, something LVL has NEVER SEEN ASKED BEFORE.

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR QUESTIONS has been asked on this forum before and can EASILY be answered with a simple search! just because you have a bankroll above 2k to play above 1/2 NL DOES NOT make your thread any different! I know growing up your parents always told you you were special...but YOURE NOT! Use the search function and make everyone's life easier...

Im torn on wether this thread was created just to level and tilt me, considering I created a thread to try and help people with the exact question OP is asking...or wether he thinks his thread is special and isn't easily answered with the search function...wp OP, either way! Good luck with everything

Quick question so I can better answer your question in more detail:

Are you Greek or Spanish? Italian?

I just meant that almost every thread is about a kid with a $2k bankroll and a dream. I never said i was special. I however find it hilarious that you put so much effort into the last post to tell me that I need to search for a thread you created. I don't search forums. I want my own thread with what I want to know in it.

Alabamian but I speak Spanish and Portuguese fluently and Im fairly fluent in Vietnamese.

Okies. Thanks for the details response.

I asked because you seem like the lazy f'cks from the bankrupt countries who want everything handed to you on a silver platter, want us to come and bail your lazy ass out, and refuse to put in any work yourself.

Cheers,

S

thanks for breaking this news to me, because I could not tell and this was not the foundation I have based my replies to your excellent thread. Again, GL OP...you will likely have answers immediately!

???

Last I checked the US was neither intending nor being asked to bail anybody but their own inept and overly greedy mega corporations out.

But maybe I got it wrong and you're really French or German?

Maine2Spain just use the ****ing search function and you'll find all your answers, you wont get any from any of the regulars here and with that attitude of yours I dont blame them.

Where is a safe place to live by the W, V, B and Aria, hmmmm never saw that ques on here.

What are the games like? Hmmm never saw that one either.

Are they full of other people like me that are there to take the drunk tourists money? That's a new question too, or no.

Are you really that lazy and arrogant that you can't perform a simple forum or google search for the answers to the most popular of questions like "where's a safe place to live in Vegas"?

I just got back from Vegas, and I noticed there were a lot of good mixed game players playing down in stakes at the moment. For example, I played in a $8-$16 OE game with Cyndy Violette, a really good mixed-game grinder named Sergio Vargas, and three other pros who were basically all trading chips and hoping get my out-of-town money.

My point? If you are planning to head out to Vegas to grind the stakes/games you mentioned, you probably won't be playing with many tourists. Although I am admittedly a tourist in a good mixed game at this point, I'm no stranger to $20-40 stud and OE games. Perhaps PLO is different in that you'll get some looser hold em player crossing over and donating part of their bankroll.

I would have to think there are some better opportunities out there if you are going to make a move before winter, like maybe playing on the tournament trail for a bit? If you are looking for the unique experience of living in Las Vegas more immediately, though, I would definitely understand. There's something to be said about waking up to start your day and having the choice of Bellagio, Veneitan, Wynn, Aria, etc . . . to go play at if you are playing more than just small stakes NLHE. Not to mention, if you are a foodie, having a pretty surreal selection of restaurants to choose from. Not to knock Tunica, though, because you can eat pretty damn well there! Gotta say, I really enjoyed my trip out there when I visited family in Memphis.

If you are going to move out to Vegas, maybe time it to get there in December around when the Five-Star/Doyle Brunson Classic goes off at Bellagio and just ride it out on through the WPT CHP/WSOP/Bellagio Cup? To me, that would give you the prime months of really making money.

Around bowl season, Super Bowl and March Madness you'll have a lot of gamblers in town taking shots at bigger games. When I moved out to Vegas back in 07 from March-July there was a steady stream of action during that time and it was really great, even for a guy who was just grinding 1/2&2/5 NLHE, 8/16 mixed when I could find it, and tournament saty's like me.

I'm not sure I told you anything you didn't already know, but just my .02 as a guy who had both been out to LV as a visitor lately and lived out there for several months a few years back.

The $1/$2 PLO game that runs at the V is more like $1/$2/$5 with a $500 max. $1 chips play in the Aria $1/$3 pre-flop. Same $500 max. These are the only two remotely regular $1/$3 games you'll find in town now. A 30BI roll seems appropriate.

Would be pretty cool if they asked the US to help them out. But since it worked so well in the past, I guess they continue to ask the Germans for money.

Somebody could just have told OP that
is a very small budget for trying to find a place on the Strip. Off-strip it doesn't really matter if you are close to B/V/W because you have to drive anyway.