Could you give me a vague idea on Vegas hourly compared to a) hourly on ept stops b) std week in uk? 2x? Could you guess at the variance? I imagine a few sngs/sats must help and edges seem big. Did you play any none nlhe whilst your there?
Most degen late reg?
How much of an effort do you make to keep expenses down?
If you could choose any UK reg to grind the Vegas strip for you to make the most $ in lets say 6 hours (in a performing/sign holding capacity, who would you pick?
Biggest eyeroll moment of the trip?
Hourlies 123 would be Vegas/EPT/UK being very general ofc. Doubt double though. It's too hard to answer. Some UK games are the best of the lot, but Vegas you can ofc get consistently good spots 24/7.
Variance-wise, again, how to quantify, but obv huge runner bracelet 1500, 1ks are the highest, followed by smaller field EPTs, then EPT side events, WSOP main being pretty low down on the list because of the structure/softness. Obv the main is extremely high variance in the latter stages, but just surviving and chipping up etc, seems like you should cash 1 in 4 or 1in 5 years at least. I felt like a right pussy during day 1 passing up on spots to go HAM on a tough table but I knew I could just wait for a softer table / better spot because you get SO much time.
I made a move on day 5 that I might live to regret, even though it only cost me 475k chips of my 2.5m stack, those chips are worth chunks, it was probably not worth the risk in hindsight. Having said that I made some similar moves on day 3 and 4 that all worked and contributed to my chipping up so who knows...
The sngs are high variance but obv can get the volume in (8-10per day if u commit a whole day to it) so that helps.
Didn't play any non holdem.
Most degen late reg was a horror story. I busted a wsop 1k itm on day2 and regged a 1k sat. Bust it literally in the first hand. Snap regged a $235 deepstack like a trooper. Busted that within an orbit. Then got a cab to Venetian and regged my 4th comp of the day, the 1.1k there with 20k chips at 600/1200/200. That felt pretty punty. Especially considering my eye was in bits and getting worse and worse, so much so by level 15 I could barely see the flop, or even my own cards, and was in huge pain. I couldn't bring myself to punt it off and forced myself to play through the pain. Busted at like 3am, just off the money - nut low moment of the trip by far lol.
Will Kassouf would make a fortune on the strip obv!
Eye roll moment that springs to mind was an Aussie reg saying to me after a tiny pot I beat him out of: "were you value betting the turn?" waiting like half a second then saying "you don't know, ok cool." I told him my thoughts on that lol and then doubled up through him and then busted him. He did apologise tbf to him.
Other eyerolls moments link into Vinnys question. Valentin going on about how he's a vegan nonstop. Ordering the most ridic plant food to the table, going on about how ethical it is and tasty it is and saying "Negreanu is a Vegan!" then saying how he wrote some paper when he was 19 that had worldwide recognition or some absolute bollocks. All completely unprompted. If a big pot was going on that he wasn't in, he'd just start talking to nobody, or talking to ESPN really loudly right in the middle of the pot etc.
Actually the eyeroll moment that sums him up perfectly is when he busted Maria Ho (in brutal fashion), he said sorry sorry Maria etc. Then told the whole table about how they were great friends off the table and grew up together. At the start of the day, she asked him his name