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Vaun21
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03-16-2005, 12:24 AM
Post subject: Going to Atlantic City...
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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I'm getting married in May and we're planning the honeymoon for June in Atlantic City. The wife wants to be close to the beach and I want to try some live poker.
So I'm looking for some advice/recommendations on where to play; if any of the casinos have smaller ($30-$60) tourney buy-ins; if there are cheaper NL buy-in ring games ($100-$200).
We're looking to spend around $1,200 on the total trip. I know that's a pretty tight budget, but we're trying to keep this as economic as we possibly can. Thanks for any advice.
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ChezJ
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Washington, D.C.
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first of all, are you sure your wife is okay with you playing hours and hours of poker on your honeymoon?
there is a whole separate room for NL games at the tropicana. $100, $200, and higher buy-ins all available. there's plenty of NL going on at that level at the taj too.
i don't know about the tourneys, but the taj had one going on when i was there last month. oh yeah bally's should have daily tournaments too.
the other places to play are the borgata, harrahs, and resorts, although i think that last one only has like 3 tables and it's not 24 hours.
be sure to get a comp card wherever you play, because if you put in an average of 5 hours a day, you can get deep discounts on future stays at the hotel.
ChezJ
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Vaun21
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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LOL, I'm not going to play that much, I just want to give it a try. And yeah, she's fine with it. She knows that I'm not going to spend all day playing poker. I may not even play during the day at all, and just wait until she's asleep to hit the poker rooms. (I'm the night out owl, up until usually 3 or 4am and can go on very little sleep and she's usually sleeping by midnight.)
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Originally Posted by ChezJ
an average of 5 hours a day
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I'd love to, but I won't get anywhere near that. Would it still be worth getting a comp card if I only play 1 - 2 hours a couple of days? I have no clue how they work.
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Repoman75
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 16
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Does anyone have a consolidated list of what tourneys are offered regularly at AC casinos? I know I can check each hotel site, but that is cumbersome.
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JShoreCards
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: ...the swamps of Jersey
Posts: 21
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Tropican has NL tournaments almost every day. Buy-ins are 50 or under with 10-15 registration. Rebuys and addons for all torunaments.
Taj Mahal has tournaments every day. Lowest buy in is Tues/Wed which is 50+15. After that it gets up to 100+20 and I think there's a 300+40. No rebuys or addons.
Sands has tourney Sun, Wed, and Fri. Buy-ins range from 20-60, with re-buys and addons.
Borgata has tourneys every day but the weekends (I think.) Buy-ins range from 40-100. There are rebuys and addons.
Harrah's has tourneys a couple of times a month. I think their smallest buy-in is 250+30. They do some WSOP events IIRC.
All of this information I compiled from the the hotel's website. I just happen to have it in a word document. The hotels give out different starting amounts for chips. When I've played at the Taj Mahal, I think it was 5000 in chips. Some are 1000.
(I couldn't figure out how to attach my document, so I summarized.)
Hope this helps.
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Repoman75
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Thanks. Actually, I checked the Trop schedule, and some of their tourneys do NOT have Rebuys/Add ons now... which is good in my opinion. I'll have to check them out.
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JShoreCards
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: ...the swamps of Jersey
Posts: 21
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No problem.
Actually, I just heard from a friend who played at Tropican and the tourney had no rebuys/addons, so I have to update my document.
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