Hi,

I think this is the right forum for this, if not sorry.

Please could anyone tell me the best place for low buy in tournaments on the strip in Vegas around the $50 - $200 mark?

Do the big casinos even offer tournaments of this size?

Thanks.

The best information source I have found for this info is here: http://www.allvegaspoker.com/tournaments.php

Doesn't always include special series' etc but it seems pretty complete otherwise.

A general comment about these tournaments is that the rake is very high. I'm used to paying 10-12% max tournament rake/fees, but the norm seems to be 20% or more.

Yeah you'll expect to pay 25% or more pretty much anywhere.

Aria has a good daily $125 tournament. $97 goes into the prize pool. They get about 6-7 tables iirc, probably more this time of year.

Bellagio also has a good $125 daily (again, $97 into prize pool) that is quite a bit smaller than the Aria's.

The best deal is the Venetian, where the rake is generally much smaller. Right now (during WSOP) they run a deepstack series, so their daily tournaments are in the evening. I believe they have a great $150 that runs at 7pm, and another good one at 10pm. Their rake is usually much more reasonable, in the 15% range.

The Rio (during WSOP) has a pretty good $200-ish tournament daily that attracts huge crowds, it's also worth playing although the rake is high on this one as well.

rio s currently running daily deep stacks that are in your price range depending on when you start... from 135-235 with megas starting at 75

I had a blast at the Luxor when I went. The competition wasn't that great and I got as hammered as I wanted. The buy ins were very cheap 35-55.

Caesar's was a step up in competition, but the games were much larger and gave you plenty of time to play for your buy in. $100-120

http://www.thepokeratlas.com/city/las-vegas/228/ appears to have a pretty detailed list of all tournaments within the following week (it updates constantly to always show the week following when you access the page). This is especially valuable this time of year when the WSOP (and the deepstacks at Venetian) are changing up and adding to the normal tournament schedules.

Binion's Poker Classic looks good. Im going to be out there next week and plan on playing in it. For 150 with 15 house take its not too bad.

If your willing to go off strip, The Orleans has great tournaments in the $150 range that tends to have GREAT turn out. Its a quick 5 minute cab ride from the strip, right up Tropicana

The deepstack at the Rio (2pm) is drawing huge fields from what I have heard- over 1,000 a day.

is that the $235 or the $185

$235

great info thanks a lot guys

anyone ideas on finding the fishiest 1/2 games as well? derailing my own thread a bit

Check the second post in this thread:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/27...1-10-a-851539/

when venetian doesnt have deep stack going on their dailys are great and usually have a solid number of runners. Right now with the series the rio is a great option as many have said. Not sure how Caesar's dailys are running these days but they had great structures awhile back and had decent number of runners.