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Originally Posted by madlex
Both Harrah's and Hollywood run 2/5 on the weekends. The latter more consistently and occasionally 5/10 if there's something happening at the Speedway. I think Hollywood also has 2/5 on weekdays now but I haven't been.
Vegas is pretty straightforward. 3h nonstop Southwest or Spirit. The latter has a Sunday night return flight that leaves around 1-1:30AM and gets you to KC around 6AM and you can tell a lot of passengers are heading straight to work. MCI is one of the airports where you can arrive 15mins before boarding. Uber is $30-60 depending on where you want to go in the metro.
Driving: if you don't care about speed limits you can get to Choctaw and Winstar in the OK/TX border area in 6h.
I found there is a Frontier flight that comes up on their “GoWild” pass heading out to Vegas some weekends and also that return Spirit flight you mentioned (thanks for the tip). That makes it around $180 round trip … plus hotel and the annual cost of that Frontier pass (honestly that deal is good enough for visiting family more often … in addition to poker maybe shouldn’t even count it as a cost or minimally so)
I think the math would work out, if I can manage to put in some long sessions.
Man, that red eye flight kinda sucks though. At the same time guess it’s kind of nice, since you maximize your time out there. Going to look into whether that flight is canceled often.