Las Vegas Downtown Poker Rooms.

On our WSOP trip to Vegas we stayed downtown at Binion's. The original home of the WSOP. My wife and I like it for it's history. (Also it is very economical to stay there :-).) In this post I will review the 3 rooms we played at downtown. Here they are:

1) Binion's - Great room. Lots of action. The $4-8 game with a full kill was wild every night. Lot of gambling going on. There $1-2 No limit was at times tight, at other times loose and wild. A real roller coaster. Good thing is it was going almost 24 hours a day. When I got up early I could always find a game. Their No Limit tournaments are tough but very good practice for bigger events. There comp. policy is awesome, play like 2 hours and they give you $8 to use in the coffee shop. Overall the best room downtown.

2) Golden Nugget - They just opened up a new 10 table room. Love the look and feel of it. Only problems are the chairs are very odd. Sit on them for a few hours and your butt is in pain! Also the tables are way to close together. The action is good in the $1-2 no limit game. The $3-6 game was full of tourists, great wild game. They have an awesome tournament everyday at 11:00am. Full of people that are totally new to no limit tourns. (Had some locals in it also.) Room is run very well. They just added high hand bonuses for any 4 of kind or straight flush. I love this room and would recommend it to anyone visiting downtown.

3) The Plaza - This room is falling apart since our last trip.(About 6 months ago.) Nothing going on here at all! They usually only have $2-4 games going. In the morning half the game is made up of their dealers trying to keep it going! They also seam to appeal to low class locals from the bad areas of Vegas. I wouldn't bother going here at all.

That's it for today. I will post more about the WSOP tournaments I played in soon. Good Luck at the tables. Tony