Bumping for awesomeness of the V poker room. Was out there this past summer in middle of June during the craziness of the WSOP. Stayed at the Rio and have to say that the V's poker room is leagues ahead of the dinky poker room at the Rio. After donking out of a $1500 at the WSOP, headed over to the V to see if all the hype I have read on here was accurate.
At first, I would have to say that I was quite impressed with the overall aesthetic and layout of the poker room. As soon as I entered, bam, it was right to my left, no long walk needed. Chips shuffling, hot massage girls scurring about, cards flying in the air, rich drunk idiots giving money away at the $1/$2 tables. I could tell right away that this was going to be my poker room of choice for my trip. Got on the list for $1/$2, was third or fourth and ended up getting a seat within five minutes. I found out throughut several trips to the V that getting a seat was wayyyy quicker than at the Rio, where there could be several open seats and a list of 20 people waiting and the staff shuffling their feet. The $1/$2 was way soft, ended up winning around $500-$600 in one three hour session on my trip. Noticed that I either wound up on really active tables with people throwing their money away or really tight tables with a bunch of regs where we would hardly ever reach showdown.
Played a $300+$30+$10 DeepStack event also when I was there this past June. The structure looked great, and after busting the $1500 WSOP (which wasn't that great of a structure for that amount of money) I was determined to not donk off my stack. Registered the night before the tourney, and am glad I did cause the lines got pretty long right before the tourney started. 12,000 starting stacks with 40 minute levels and blinds starting at 50/100, and automatic shufflers. Already seemed leagues ahead of the WSOP donkaments. Managed to get quads in the second level and won a decent pot, then lost a decent sized pot to a middle aged donk to my right one hand before the first break. He had 5 or 6K, I had 18K or so, and doubled him up when I turned a straight and flush draw with AKs against his set of jacks. So back down to starting stack after three levels, but still all right. Antes began in third level, at 100/200 25. There was a good mix of solid players, donks, spazzes, nits and rocks. Went on a heater in the fourth and fifth levels and got my stack up to it's peak at around 80K or so in the eight or ninth level. Leveled off after that and went extremely card dead and ended up busting in 64th out of 813 at blind level 5,000/10,000 1,000. Had just doubled up and now have 72K in middle position. Pick up QToff, jam and get called by pocket queens on the button and lose after flopping open ender and bricking. Was twenty minutes or so away from the end of day one and winning that hand would have gave me a decent shot to make the final two tables or so.
Only complaints I have are that we played ten handed way too long in the deepstack (I think all the way up until the bubble busted) and the huge snafu that occurred in the event I played. Top 72 in the tourney I played cashed and when we got down to hand-for-hand, I was fairly short-stacked and card-dead. We get down to 73, according to the tournament clocks, and a big hand occurs on another table. Everyone gathers over, as all other hands were done, and a guy ends up busting. Everyone is cheering and high fiving and so we re-draw for seats and the TD announces that everyone left is in the money. Cool.
So we re-draw and I take my new seat. The dealers are waiting for a go-ahead to start dealing. Well, something like 10-20 minutes passes and nothing has changed. We see the floor and TD whispering to each other, and then the TD gets on the mic, and announces that THEY MISCOUNTED AND THAT THERE WAS STILL 73 PLAYERS LEFT. What?!?!?!?! How does something like that happen? Even if a player was in the bathroom or whatnot, all you have to do is count the chip stacks at each table and add them together. It's not like the WSOP main event where some 600 odd people cash, I mean this was 72 players cashing. How do you f that up??? So, the TD says that we have to go back to hand-for-hand. People are pissed and eventually the TD proposes that we can pay the actual 73rd place min-cash money ($403 in this case) from first place money if everyone agrees to it. Well, everyone but one player agreed so we had to go back to hand-for-hand. People were pissed that the V wouldn't take the hit (a whopping $403) since it was their mistake.
Want to thank DCarp for posting in these forums and reaching out to the players, just wanted to let him know about this incident that happened that could have been easily avoidable. By the way, how have the PLO games organized by Jeff Hwang been going? What about the mixed games that another 2+2 has been trying to get going on a regular basis?
Oh yeah, the pay structure was horrible at the deepstack I played. Min cash was $403 for a whole $63 profit for approximately 12 hours of play. I see that they have now
changed the payout structures for the DSE's so I applaud them for doing so, since they look much better now.
Last edited by abracadabrab; 10-22-2009 at 04:13 PM.
Reason: Added bit about re-structuring of payouts