Oh, and regardless of where you play, you will probably be eaten
alive. It's the price you pay for an edumacation. Budget for a loss.
On a positive note, I play hold'em and Omaha almost daily on-line, and
was hesitant to play in a ring game or tournament at a casino. No
reason to worry: after the first round butterflies, I found that my
on-line 'training' prepared me with good intuition about how to play
"IRL" In Real Life.
I came in 6th place in my first $30 hold'em tourney in the
Peppermill_Reno a few years back. won a prize of $140: about 100
entrants. Only been in a few tourneys since & crapped out early.
I have trouble switching gears from 10 hands per minute VP to one hand
every 5 minutes in live poker. Your Mileage Will Vary.
Before I played VP, I used to play 7 card stud for long hours in
Vegas: Excalibur (10% rake up to $3 per hand) was newbie low-stakes
friendly back then 10 yrs ago. So was Imperial Palace (5% rake at the
time), altho the poker area was quite cramped. I also live poker
played at Caesar's. Sorry I can't speak for present-day Vegas: I'm
exclusively a Reno visitor guy now. Cal-Neva is the low rake place to
play there I think. In Reno: El Dorado, Circus Circus and Grand Sierra
poker rooms are higher rake, but nicer poker rooms.
~MARK
In a message dated 3/2/2007 2:29:10 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
gambling@... writes:
So I'm thinking I've finally got the stones to try my hand at live
poker.
Does anyone have any recommendations for a Vegas poker room
well-suited to a
novice player?
I'd like to get into Texas Hold'em in an environment where there's
even a
fighting chance I won't be eaten alive.
Luxor has a free class followed by a $1 Limit game 9am and 2pm daily
Gold Coast has a daily $20 tourney at 10am
JT
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