Live Poker in Las Vegas, need some tips - Page 2 - Poker Card Room

The best way to do it is to just bring the cash in with you and leave with it, but understandably this can be riskier with respect to theft, and can have customs implications in both directions.

If this is an issue for you, I would contact the casino you'll be staying at and inquire about wiring your money to them in advance, and back to your home bank when you leave. You can then access your money while you are there with no ATM limit issues. There will likely be wiring fees, but that is there price of that convenience.

Quote

05-17-2016 , 09:43 PM

#27

Ray Zee

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 17,920

why is it not safe to have 5k in your pocket. the robbers dont know what you have unless you are foolish. l.v. is very safe to carry money around in as long as you are careful as anyplace.

most cages will have some kind of safe keeping for your cash it you want to, or as said you can wire money in. they dont often take checks unless you have established credit with that casino.
if you have a bank account with a bank that has a branch in vegas you can transact money that way.

Quote

05-20-2016 , 07:57 PM

#28

cokeboy99

old hand

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,778

Quote:

Originally Posted by D4NY76

Hi everyone from Italy, i read this thread and i have some more question...
Next summer i'll be in Las Vegas for the whole August, it's my second time there and i will play 1-2 NL in almost all casinos looking to find soft tables.
The first time here i arrived with cash money, but it was only few days.

1. Is it possible to buy in @ 1-2NL paying with credit card? If yes is there an additional fee? For cash out they give me money or add to credi card?
2. Total Rewards is an advantage? I'll play a lot of hours a day but i can't understand how it works, i have a credit to spend in it?
3. The 7 casino's bad beat jackpot is still alive?
4. Any other tips for me?

Thank you!

My guess is that you're referring to the Mega-Beat promotion that Caesar's was offering throughout it's properties. The answer is no, it is no longer going. Each place now has their own promotions.

Quote

05-20-2016 , 08:31 PM

#29

Land O Lakes

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,959

Don't use a cash advance on a credit card.

It's the 21st century. There are ways to easily get your money from your bank to the cage without using cards or cash.

Quote

05-20-2016 , 09:01 PM

#30

Land O Lakes

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,959

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ray Zee

why is it not safe to have 5k in your pocket. the robbers dont know what you have unless you are foolish. l.v. is very safe to carry money around in as long as you are careful as anyplace.

This is dependent on the person. Where do you draw the line as to what amount is not safe to keep in your pocket? 5k is probably a good chunk of change for a 1/2 player, and that's all that really matters in these decisions. Your advice on Vegas is kinda disingenuous. Robbers don't need to know what is in your pocket to know the EV is better sticking up random nice looking people walking around in a cash city than around the general store in farmland Nebraska.

Quote

05-21-2016 , 03:46 AM

#31

ZOMG_RIGGED!

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 17,504

Except no one gets robbed for a tiny amount like that in Vegas unless you're doing something stupid or in the wrong areas. It's terrible business for a casino to have its customers robbed so they do any thing they can to protect against it.

I'm sure what Ray meant is that as long you're in a casino or on like 99% of the strip there is almost no chance you're getting robbed unless you do something very stupid.

And there's no way a guy worried about 5k is going to look more dressed up than the thousands of other people unless he makes himself a target

Quote

05-21-2016 , 11:27 AM

#32

psandman

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 15,829

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZOMG_RIGGED!

Keep telling yourself that.

Quote

05-21-2016 , 01:55 PM

#33

Land O Lakes

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,959

Lol. People get robbed on the strip all the time. Every. Single. Night.

Quote

05-21-2016 , 08:34 PM

#34

ZOMG_RIGGED!

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 17,504

Please back that statement up.

If you're on the strip, or any of the heavily trafficked tourist areas, no one is going to mug you. The only time it happens is if you're doing something stupid or wonder off somewhere at night. Just like in any big city.

Quote

05-21-2016 , 10:52 PM

#35

psandman

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 15,829

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZOMG_RIGGED!

There are lots of ways to be robbed. From pickpots to what you think of as a mugging and many in between.

Quote

05-22-2016 , 04:33 AM

#36

ZOMG_RIGGED!

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 17,504

fair enough. I assumed anybody worried about 5k would take the basic steps to insure it couldn't be pick pocket. It falls under my "doing something stupid" category

Quote

05-22-2016 , 01:52 PM

#37

psandman

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 15,829

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZOMG_RIGGED!

fair enough. I assumed anybody worried about 5k would take the basic steps to insure it couldn't be pick pocket. It falls under my "doing something stupid" category

This argument becomes somewhat circular since you will simply blame the victim for any robbery therefore the only people who do something you think is stupid will be robbed.

Quote

05-22-2016 , 02:18 PM

#38

ZOMG_RIGGED!

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 17,504

Very true. But it's also very easy to prevent yourself from being pick pocketed if you have something you know you need to protect

Quote

05-22-2016 , 03:36 PM

#39

8ballJunkie

journeyman

Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 377

I presume you're talking about money belts, but how secure are those, really? Is it possible for a skilled pickpocket to just reach under your T shirt and cut the belt?

Quote

05-22-2016 , 08:21 PM

#40

borg23

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 15,043

Quote:

Originally Posted by D4NY76

It's not my first time in LV. The money question is... if you win you have too much cash (and it's not safe to walk with 4-5k in the pocket), if you lose you have to get more money from atm, and every bank account has limits (i don't want to be without the possibility to obtain new cash at 1/2 month).

Thanks a lot for your opinions.

half the people in vegas have 5k in their pocket
don't worry
just don't get trashed with it on you and robbed by hookers.

Quote

05-22-2016 , 10:16 PM

#41

madlex

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 17,435

Quote:

Originally Posted by psandman

There are lots of ways to be robbed. From pickpots to what you think of as a mugging and many in between.

Robbery by definition involves force or threat of force (or putting the victim in fear of force being used). Pickpocketing is theft not robbery.

Quote

05-22-2016 , 10:29 PM

#42

psandman

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 15,829

Quote:

Originally Posted by madlex

Robbery by definition involves force or threat of force (or putting the victim in fear of force being used). Pickpocketing is theft not robbery.

And this is relevant how. There are times when the legal definition of the term is irrelevant to the conversation. OP doesn't care whether it meets the legal definition of robbery . He wants to keep his money. For conversational purposes he doesn't want to be robbed

Last edited by psandman; 05-22-2016 at 10:36 PM.

Quote

05-23-2016 , 07:57 AM

#43

ZOMG_RIGGED!

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 17,504

To make conversation clearer?

He asked how likely he was to be robbed, I said never, and you and LoL called me crazy. We could have saved at three precious units of Internet space had the proper words been used. Not that it really matters

Quote

05-23-2016 , 08:12 AM

#44

psandman

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 15,829

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZOMG_RIGGED!

Really because when he said robbed you thought his only concern was being a victim of the crime legally defined as robbery? And in the context of his post that made sense to you.

Now what happens when a pickpocket attempt goes bad.... it very well may turn into a robbery.

Quote

05-23-2016 , 10:19 AM

#45

ZOMG_RIGGED!

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 17,504

And if that goes wrong it could be murder, but I wouldn't assume someone who used the murder to need advice on how not to be pick pocketed.

Rob has an actual definition. It's not a legal one, look in the dictionary. Don't think its weird when people misunderstand you because they assumed you knew what the words being used actually meant

Quote

05-23-2016 , 10:35 AM

#46

ZOMG_RIGGED!

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 17,504

Quote:

Originally Posted by Land O Lakes

Lol. People get robbed on the strip all the time. Every. Single. Night.

Please explain how when making a statement like this to someone asking how safe they are walking around in Vegas with cash, it can't possibly make a difference if you mean pick pocketed or mugged?

Quote

05-23-2016 , 12:57 PM

#47

Land O Lakes

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,959

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZOMG_RIGGED!

Please explain how when making a statement like this to someone asking how safe they are walking around in Vegas with cash, it can't possibly make a difference if you mean pick pocketed or mugged?

Yeah, I'm not interested in getting dragged into a dumb debate. Only on 2+2 does someone ask how safe they are with cash in Vegas and people start wanting to consult a dictionary to form an answer.

It's pretty simple: if the cash is meaningful to you, then use wires and boxes at the casino; if having the money taken from you (by any means) is not a big deal, then carry it with you. This is pretty ABC stuff that extends beyond Vegas.

For the foreigners, let's just add to the list of "doing something stupid" would be parking in the parking garage of any major casino on the strip.

Quote

05-23-2016 , 01:03 PM

#48

chillrob

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 20,909

Major strip casinos' parking garages are considered very dangerous? Count me as a non-foreigner who parks in them all the time and has never thought twice about it. They seem not at all unsafe to me.

Quote

05-23-2016 , 01:09 PM

#49

psandman

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 15,829

Quote:

Originally Posted by chillrob

Major strip casinos' parking garages are considered very dangerous? Count me as a non-foreigner who parks in them all the time and has never thought twice about it. They seem not at all unsafe to me.

They are generally safe. But they are places where you can easily be alone, they are generally not very well lit, lots of hiding places

Quote

05-23-2016 , 02:14 PM

#50

ZOMG_RIGGED!

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 17,504

Quote:

Originally Posted by Land O Lakes

Yeah, I'm not interested in getting dragged into a dumb debate. Only on 2+2 does someone ask how safe they are with cash in Vegas and people start wanting to consult a dictionary to form an answer.

Lol at "wanting to consult a dictionary." Actually many people don't need to look up basic vocabulary words. Believe it or not being able to express yourself coherently is a skill valuable in other places than 2+2

Quote

Page 2 of 3

First

1 2 3

Last

Post Reply Subscribe

...

Page 2 of 3

First

1 2 3

Last