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Bellagio is offering Sun-Thurs. $129 pn to guests who play their $1 slots for two hours per day. Call the reservation number and ask for the Players Club rep. Complete details will be provided.

How to define playing? Is it ok that I just put coins in the machine and sitting over there doing nothing? I won't lose any money but that will be pretty boring for the 2hrs. I don't know if it is worth of that.

Anyone in LV on Sept w/e Sept 16-18?
 

Anyone here from Friday Sept 16? Hilton has a slots deal including acccom, which look tempting, but I haven't called for the pricing: has anyone called?

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Much less boring is to play poker 4 hours per day. In return, you'll get Bellagio's poker rate of $129 weekday/$199 weekend. (BTW, this is Wynn's poker rate as well.)

Unlike slots, you actually have a chance of winning money if you know anything at all about poker.

How much are the limits/blinds/buyins?

Your excpected loss for playing dollar slots for two hours a day will be $50-$300/day, depending on playing speed and whether it's a two- or three-coin slot.

QL

It varies. I believe they have Hold 'em in $4-8, $8-16, $15-30, $30-60, $80-160, $100-200, and higher. I'm not sure if they still have $1-5 stud as I didn't pay attention when I was there last year. They have limits up to $4000-8000 mixed games. It's considered the best place to play in Vegas, at least for middle and higher limits. The MGM Grand is supposed to be the new best place to play low limits.

Bellagio also now runs $1-2 no limit games with a $100 buyin.

$4/8 has a $40 buyin.

It's all very straight line hold'em - no half kills, bad beat jackpots, or other detritus.

Hmm... any $2-6 spread?

I'd like to learn more about these "hazards." Do you have a bibliography on the subject to share?

How 'bout a glossary?

Half kill: If the same player at the table wins two consecutive pots, the blinds go up by half again. And sometimes the player who won the two consecutive pots is punished by being forced to put in an extra blind. Punishment of any player who happens to have real poker skill, so real poker players avoid half kill games.

Bad beat jackpots: An increasing jackpot amount, separate from the stakes being played at the poker table itself, which increases some amount per hand played. You win it by throwing a "bad beat" on someone else. Rules vary, but a typical one is: If you hold a full house, aces over tens or better, and are beaten by some stronger hand (there aren't many, but four tens is an example), then the person beating you wins, say, 60% of the jackpot; you win 30%; and the other players at the table split the remaining 10% just for having a pulse at the table when the bad beat is dealt. Jackpots such as this will often keep players in before the flop with small pocket pairs, praying for their miracle. So, it again skews the game away form skill and into Keno-style random luck. Again, a great reason to avoid bad beat jackpot games.

You can Google "poker terms" "glossary" and see more.

FWIW, the Riviera has a small poker room with a couple of rather colourful regulars and none of the detritus listed above.

TVM for begging my question. I guess books are obsolete in the digital age. :D

Hmmm...what limits, how many tables, and is it all non-smoking?

No, but I want to be. :D