The MGM 11am tournament is quite well structured. It was about 30% soft, 50-60% mediocre, 10-20% reasonable players
The MGM 1/2 NL was pretty respectable. An order of magnitude stronger than any of the other 1/2 games (softest was Bally's by a long way). I didn't enjoy it much.
The short stack Excalibur 1/3 NL (100 buy-in) is very enjoyable - plays a bit like the fun part of a tournament: soom room to maneouver but not difficult to get your stack in either.
Avoid *all* tournaments and NL at the Luxor. The 2/4 limit there is a great zoo.
I only played the Mandalay bay tournament once (evening - the morning one fills up pretty quickly), but it was pretty good - reasonably structured 3 table SNG essentially.
I had a dreadful time at the Mandalay Bay 2/4 200 NL, so I don't have an objective opinion. A lot of very bad (action) players got very deep though.
Binions has started spreading O8 as well - of course that's even further away than Orleans (never made it there)...
Binions also had good tournaments (the final table is really cool, it's a different colour, raised, and is lit up), and the 1/2 NL was pretty fun. Worth one detour IMO. They have cool poker T-shirts too
Enjoy the trip!Statistics: Posted by Smokin'Al — Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:25 pm
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