Having WSOP center strip, with Bellagio and Caesars right across the street should be awesome. Coincidentally have a trip planned to Vegas next year that should coincide with part of the WSOP, and I always stay at Bellagio or Ballys. So this should be fun!
Yea I hate getting out to the Rio, much better to have it on the strip
The Rio is probably better for the types who get an Airbnb for a month.
Overall, I’d say the move is good for recs and bad for pros, so it’s overall good for poker.
Yeah, I haven’t been out there since the 2005 and 2006 WSOPs (media, not player), but I lived in a house a few miles away and it was SO easy driving to and parking at the Rio. Felt like just a normal, quick daily commute.
Yeah anything you rent on the West or North side makes the commute to the Rio super quick and easy.
Yup, it was west of the Rio. Don’t remember where exactly, but I just took back roads into the open air convention center parking lot.
The RIO nostalgia is like those times you have a couple too many and claim you really miss that bachelor suite you lived in with the prostitutes on the corner you would say hi to every morning. All while sitting in your nice house in the burbs.
(This might be a true story).
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Based on what we have seen at the WSOP this year I’m guessing the fields for next year’s mixed games are gonna grow considerably.
I’m not nostalgic for the Rio, but I think the people whining about it are crybabies. I’ve stayed in worse places in Vegas.
I’d have trouble giving it bottom three casino-hotels in Vegas, given that Excalibur, Circus Circus, the Plaza and the Strat are still standing. And that doesn’t even take into account places like the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Siegel Suites on Tropicana (aka the Redneck Riviera).
The new owner is going to do a bunch of renovations to the Rio, so hopefully it will be nice again.
Like I said earlier, I haven’t been there in a decade and a half, but I do hear that it’s kind of crappy now. I certainly enjoyed my time there and thought it was pretty solid back then. Didn’t stay in a hotel room, but I was in one and it seemed good. I always liked the food court-esque Chinese eatery next to the sportsbook - I could take a break from wandering around the Amazon room or reporting at a final table and just chill with some tasty food while watching sports.
I just have fond memories of the place, since I was there at the beginning of my career in the poker industry.
I stayed at the Rio in 1993, not long after it opened. And it was terrific back then. Before too long, it expanded and got way too big and I guess all kinds of things happened. But back in the day, I loved it.
I miss the show in the sky and the separate seafood buffet.
Moving some poker discussion over here from the crypto thread. For those of you in the US, what sites are you currently playing on? Do any of them offer any limit games, or is it all NL, PLO, and tournaments at this point.
Also, what HUDs work now days. TIA
May want to also ask if any take anything besides crypto.
When I deposited $50 last using crypto to an online poker room, the transaction ate 18 bucks in fees.
Ludicrous for anyone who wants to play low stakes.
Its like walking into a casino and a bouncer punching you in the face and taking 40% of your roll
I’ve recently deposited 1K into both Ignition and ACR, and I believe the only fees I paid were the miner’s fees from my Exodus wallet, which were approx. $1.00 for each transaction.
I just play tournaments on ACR, no idea what the cash games are like. I could take a little money off there if you (or anyone) wants to deposit (they’ll actually credit a player transfer for a first deposit bonus).
I play almost only mixed games. Private sites. One is agent based and has low stakes to high stakes pretty much any mixed game variant you can imagine with decent traffic but high rake.The other private site short handed horse game and a couple of those variants run. Mostly by me starting the games.
I forgot to mention ACR. stud8 runs on there 10-20 to 40-80. Games are pretty good. The 10-20 runs semi regular. They also have limit o/8 thst runs. A lot of these you have to be willing to play heads up short handed though. You won’t find multiple games running with lists. Basically short handed and sometimes they fill up and it runs for bit.
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