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Originally Posted by riverdog
Games are good during WSOP, especially during first two weeks, and during March Madness. The rodeo championships are a bust, as is the automotive afterparts convention. Don't laugh about the latter - those guys make huge money. In general, Vegas poker is at best 20% of the fun it was 10 years ago, with the exception of $1-$2 on busy weekends. The current crop of regs has no understanding of the value of providing entertainment, and thus fun is dying in Vegas poker. You're better off flying to nearly any remote casino for good poker. Underground games across America >>> Vegas poker. Sociable poker pros, what few there are left in Vegas, are almost uniformly making terrible financial choices by staying in Vegas.
I won't argue woth you, but note only that the NFR crowd is both entertaining on their own and they do like to play poker .... A couple of cowboy hats at the table are a good sign of a fun/good game.
I don't play much outside of Las Vegas or Central America, but live poker is not dead in either location and a sociable game works best.... and Las Vegas generally has one or two live sociable tourists in any lower level game on the Strip.
I'm not recommending this as a way to make a living by anyone as a pro player month in or month out, but the OP's question sought good times for "soft games".
So, if it is a terrible financial choice" to rely on poker for a living in Las Vegas, versus other cities, .....great, there are flights leaving here evey day to wherever .... OP asked about times to play in Las Vegas, not "wherever". Why should he fly to "wherever" the pros have migrated ?