Anyone take the snoqualmie express before? I know online you can make reservations, but is it okay to show up without one? Also, can you take a different bus back that wasn't your scheduled time? Thanks.

Yes to both. But you need to make arrangements when you get there so they can give you the right pass.

Playing tourney and 3-100 at Hideaway tonight

Tried to play the Hideaway 3-100 a week ago Friday. After signing in I was #8 on the waiting list. Faced with a long possible wait, my 7 week Tulalip poker boycott ended.

Did learn that the Hideaway allows calling in as early as Thursday to get your name on the
Friday 3-100 list. Also sadly learned the Hideaway holds no plans to spread more than one 3-100 game.

I ended up just playing 3-20 I was on the list for 5 hrs

Since Sunday I have been in Las Vegas and have played many hours of NL cash games at the Aria and Venetian. While this is a small sample, the general level of play is nitty and tight. Lots of local regulars grinding it out hours on end. The loose crazy throw chips away poker scene of 10 years ago is long-gone. And missed. The game is tougher to beat and the level of action is higher in the Seattle casino poker rooms than what has been experienced so far at these two Vegas venues.

My fixes are for the Series season the last few summers. Still true?

Don't play Omaha so haven't a clue if your FIFY this is true.

I just got back after a 4 day trip, was planning to stay 5 but found the players generally cranky and tight. Also played mostly the Venetian and Aria. Played three sessions of 15-30 O/8. Two were really painful because the players were cranky the whole time. I won the 2 times with the cranky players, and lost most of it back on the third session when the table was actually generally civil.

I go there for fun, and I must say I have more fun at the Hideaway due to the patrons there, than at the Vegas Casinos. Probably because there was not much going on, and only the local regs were playing. The rake at Ceasar's was only two dollars per hand, so they had lots of local regs there. One of them complained that the most of the people there were regs!
Gee I wonder why???

Well put. Cranky and tight locals fits my continuing Vegas poker experience. Fortunately two bad tourists joined my table late in the round last night. Donkey players have been rare. Local nits rule. Bumped into another Tulalip reg at the Venetian last night. His experience matches yours after three days of playing at the Aria and Venetian.

Thanks for the Caesar's tip. I will play there tonight. Understand their poker room has a new and smaller location.

Well, O8 players in Seattle are uncommonly good natured. But even in other places where I've been a reg in some friendly O8 games, half the table is still nitty like me. Just part of Omaha....

Last summer during the WSOP I found the 15 LO8 at the V to be as you describe. Summers 2012 and 2013 it was glorious. Last year the Rio 20 O8 was pretty good. Did you play that at all? Gotta zig when they zag, and last year all the regs had zagged back to the Venetian.

Also curious about the 75 LO8 (might take a very brief shot), the Bellagio 10-20 through 40-80 LHE, and the actual non-NLHE WSOP events themselves.

I've lived in Vegas the better part of the last four years. Action in the NW is definitely better than it is here.

As someone who is very familiar with Seattle games, I find it hard to believe.

Is your scope NLHE or poker as a whole?

ChuckieGolf, thank you for the Caesars recommendation. Played there tonight and had the distinct pleasure of flopping a royal flush in clubs. The Google says flopping a royal is a 1 in 650,000 proposition. Made $30 bucks too plus a free entry into the night's tournament- a $150 value.

Caesar's only had a $2 rake??

Mostly NLH, considering that 8/16 Holdem doesn't exist, and only one place spreads 10/20+. There is 8/16 O8 action, but I dont think there's a regular game higher than that. 15/30 at V, but not sure if that happens everyday.

To Superfinn, doesn't making a royal in Vegas when you're a Seattle reg tilt the hell out of you?

IIRC there is a consistent 8/16 lhe at chips.

However, that place goes all the way up the ladder to 80/160 and higher. In a small sample I've never found the 10 and the 20 games at Bellagio to be that great, but others tell me they're sometimes fantastic. So I'm curious how good they'll be this summer.

Meanwhile, small stakes PLO had gotten a little tougher last year than in 2012-13, but it's still gotta be super profitable. It seemed fairly common to find a game where almost no one has any hand selection standards, positional awareness, or (in most cases) inclination to be tricky postflop. Will be interesting to see how that holds up.

20 and 75 Omaha 8 are both pretty constant during the WSOP and can be pretty good.

I know it's not everyone's cup of tea to play different games but one argument is that it broadens your game selection so you don't have to be stuck in a tight NL game just because that's all you play. But different strokes for different folks.

Just the opposite. Still grinning ear to ear. Why not...flopped a dream hand which is good enough all by itself. Plus the nice folks at Caesars, despite no PSJ equivalent, provide a comp. I will play Caesars again when in Vegas. Maybe stay there too.

What would smoke my red-arse is the same hand at the Tulalip. This would happen over a weekend. The Tulalip reward for the weekend player like me is a card protector. The cost to the weekend player - a $2 PSJ "rake" imposed on the table per hand. This is an outrage.

I am back home with a bad case of poker fever. Despite the close proximity of the Tulalip me and my bank-roll will be elsewhere this weekend.

I was talking about LV.

I've played the 10/20 game at Bellagio about 20 tines over the last 3 years. Never spectactular. Lots of chopped blinds. Of course, during June its a whole different ballgame everywhere.

Ahhh gotcha my bad I missed that bit sorry.

As much as I miss poker in WA being in northern Virginia im so close to Maryland live, I've yet to go there but bravo shows such a nice plethora of limit.

well played!!

haven't been here in awhile, but are there games running at tulalip around 3pm weekdays?