I played that once at Bill's(Cromwell) and in Tunica, It is a horrible game. For example raising to 5x at that will do nothing because its only $5 to call. You have to raise 10x or more? its just stupid and get raked to death.

Good advice. You don’t even need 7 just take 1 friend with you. I do this all the time with rooms on and off the strip. Starting an interest list is not helpful. Just get a friend and start the game - when people see a game running they are 100x more likely to join and you usually fill a table within 30 minutes. So you just need 1 friend that will fade the rake with you for a few minutes and you’ll have any game you want running in no time.

I call.

"Any game you want running in no time", "do this all the time ...at rooms on and off the strip." Really ?

GJ, you have no clue how nonsensical that reads for anyone who actually plays in Las Vegas or knows anything about how poker rooms operate, what waiting lists do for prospective players at a venue, or how games are built.

.... either that, or

1. you or your "friend" are actually someone famous, like Doyle, Daniel, Phil Helmuth, Chicago Joey, Boski, Trooper, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mason, or other recognizable face, or

2. you have to be such a fish in Las Vegas that word spreads quickly that " GJ is sitting in a new game at XYZ casino,..... if so, you or your friend should get a marketing deal somewhere or special sponsorship on the Bravo App.

maybe start a a GJ MUG at WellReadTed's place ?

Son you’ve already been invited to book my action. If you’re correct then it should be easy money for you, right? But you’re a broke coward, plain and simple.

lol, this is about your credibility and the utter nonsense you post, about how you "do this all the time", and whether what you describe is even based in reality.

This is not a contest of poker playing skill, Papi. You could, perhaps be the greatest poker player in Las Vegas, but your posts are not about poker or strategy of the game itself. They feign insights into the business of poker, how it operates, and other non-game topics.

fwiw, you still don't understand what "booking your action" even means in the real world ... In the real world, it generally means taking the other side on your wagers on some external event, like a football game, horse race etc. YOU are not a contestant, YOU are not Fast Eddie Felsen or Minnesota Fats, YOU are not playing in the NFL, NHL, Champions League or running in the Kentucky Derby; your "action" is just a wager on someone else's activity.

Entiende, pendejo ?

(I've been fortunate to have operated poker in the pre-Blue Monday past, but any poker playing I have done since is either purely recreational or business-related. I've never claimed to be good at playing poker; I don't think I have any reason, including a business reason, to play you and doubt you or your "not-a-hooker" friend would be much fun to sit with, Papi. I may be plain and simple, but sitting you in a poker game, in Las Vegas or in Costa Rica is not on my bucket list.

"I know, Ike, let's have a spelling contest".)

GJ, I dare you to go to Flamingo or Bally's, or some other room roughly equivalent to what will be Sahara's 7-table crap room and sit with a friend and start a game of stud or short deck. I would bet my relationship with your daughter that you will be felted by the rake before it ever gets to even five-handed.

There are two rooms in Vegas that have .50/$1 NLHE. Neither are on the Strip so it could make for Sahara's niche.

Based on the Twitter comments, it looks like they're going to try and re-create the tournaments of old. With any luck they won't **** it up.

Some types of poker Sahara could focus on:

.50/1 NLH

Short Deck

Spread Limit

Stud

HORSE

SNGs

Anything but 1-2, 1-3, and 2-5. These would be guaranteed mediocrity and marginal-ness. Sahara must disqualify them off the bat.

Saturate the invitation of vloggers, poker celebrities, well connected people and so on during the opening weekend. That "I and a buddy can start any game we want" thing is idiotic.

The notion that you could start playing some random game heads-up and it will automatically fill is absurd. I've joined (and started) plenty of short-handed LHE, O8, and mixed-games in much larger rooms and they are much more likely to break within half an hour than they are to fill up.

I don't think a small poker room is going to have much success trying to spread different games with two possible exceptions:

1.) The room could run some sort of promotion on LHE and O8 to specifically try to steal existing games from the Orleans. These games have a history of moving around, so it's possible the regulars will be willing to move to wherever is offering them the best deal on rake and comps.

2.) The idea to run SNGs is intriguing. Borgata in AC used to have SNGs running all the time, and they are extremely popular at the Rio during the WSOP. But I'm not aware of any Vegas poker that runs them regularly. I wonder what would happen if room committed to running a single table $100 tournament every hour on the hour (maybe like from noon-midnight) for the first 10 players that register.

One of my earliest poker memories is playing a $100 sng at Caesar's Palace _way_ back in the day (2000? 2001? Maybe even earlier)(LOL old). They would start a SNG once 10 players agreed to pay. I out-lasted my brother (we were both poker noobs) but didn't make it to even 5 left.

At Tampa Hard Rock way back before traditional NL games were allowed in Florida, to get around the laws at that time NLHE SNG's were allowed up to $1000 per person. They were very popular, I think the $125 and $240 ones would have several of each going 24/7.

But these days don't see them being popular except at a major tournament series for lammers.

Mirage and Venetian used to run them, but they're long gone now. Those things are a product of online poker. WSOP is similar in that there are thousands of poker players in one place. Now that online poker is gone, nobody seems to care about sng's any more.

Even 1/2 shouldn't be spread due to the widespread availability of 1/3 and the more pronounced effect of the rake/promo drops. Why do people think .5/1 is a good idea just cause you can buy in for 300 bbs?

Apparently the new room will be on Poker Atlas, not Bravo.

The rake will be 4+1.

Yea, I see it there but that doesn't mean it will have live table/list info like Westgate has.
Or did you see somewhere that it will?

On there it shows wifi and auto shufflers, so that is good.

When were you there last? I go there around once a week and have never noticed anything like that.

The waiting list will be through Atlas, same as Westgate.

He probably just means like 10 years ago or more on the original Sahara poker room.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I'd much rather they focus first on a post-7pm non-turbo tournament. The old Sahara/Strat 11pm was CLUTCH. The TI 10pm was fantastic. Now, there's nothing after 7pm worth playing except maybe the 8pm at Bally's or the 10pm at South Point. But with PH ****ing around with their tournaments and screwing them all up there's nothing worth playing late night anymore.

The problem with that is that if they have 1 or 2 games of 1/2nl going and its Tournament time at 7pm or 8pm, then half the table goes to that and the game busts. That is already a tricky time because many head to dinner or shows then.

It won't have a bunch of foot traffic like a center strip place like Bally's will have.

Because a bunch of people wish to play poker for money that doesn't matter. I can't say how true this will be for LV, but I enjoy $20 buy-in with friends.

I second this, with an okay rake i would love an option to play this on the strip.


And to the guy complaining about the smell, its funny considering i specifically remember texting someone that the place smelled unusually good upon entering, granted this was the first week the SLS opened.

.5/1 might take away some fish from 1/2 and 1/3. That's a big problem.

You deny that we are in the presence of marketing greatness ?

Just let GentlemanJack and his "friend" play rake-free heads-up.

Think "magic beans". Apparently, any game they want will spring up, like in GentlemanJack and the Beanstalk.

Palace Station has a room again doesn't it?