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So who is going in November then?  There were rumblings of quite of few heading there for the Venetian Deepstack Festival all through November - now swelling in numbers im sure due to James's WSOP final table.

So who is going?

Where are you staying?  Is it cheap?

When?

Have you booked?

Im just looking to book things up this week but wandered all of the above first.  Help please!

http://www.venetian.com/Pages.aspx?id=2451

 ;D :D ;D Nice one James.  Cheers for that, see you there then!

I'm going the 5-12
playing a couple of the deepstacks
Already booked
Always cheap going in Nov

I have taken the easy booking route of using expedia for flight and hotel.

Will know in October!

Pls let me run good in the meantime.

Meeeee!

Nov. 10th/24th

Booked flight already and paid deposit on hotel to www.1800hotels.com who have amazingly cheap prices.

Phone the Venetian card room and ask for the poker rate.

It's the only time you'll stay in a 5 star hotel for about £50 per night!

Pretty certain its at least $150 per day without checking, it certainly was the last time I thought about booking there.

How much poker do you have to play there for this to be eligable?

stay in our house pls.

Can't remember exactly, but between 6-8 hours per day

Best to just keep an eye on fatwallet, good deals will pop up nearer the time. I got a deal at the Venetian from there for about $130 ish per day that also included $50 match bet per day I stayed. Stuck it all on red one spin and won, got a near freeroll on my hotel lol.

Here's all the deals.

http://www.allvegaspoker.com/poker_rates.php

I don't bother with these now as I hate being stuck to playing in one place. Also you will find as good a deal on fatwallet nearer the time. I've posted the link elsewhere before but here it is.

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/travel-deals/704925/?start=2340

Don't book through an agency (expedia etc) unless the deal looks exceptional, fatwallet will nearly always beat it at some point or other.

2nd to the 25th.

Have originally booked the Orleans for about £36 a night but will keep an eye on fatwallet.

Those figures from allvegaspoker are way out of date.

I stayed at Bellagio and Wynn for pretty much the duration of the wsop.

I paid $99 for the Wynn and $109 for the Bellagio (during the week.. a bit more at the weekend)

And altho they do state you have to put those hours in, I didn't (in fact I didn't play at all at the Bellagio during my 3 week stay except one tournament) and there were no questions asked when I checked out.

Fair enough, hence why I always deal with hotels directly to get the latest best offer. I think some do monitor the time you play though so be careful, you don't want a big bill at the end!

Wynn does have a player tracking system, so better be a bit careful there.. but Bellagio has no such system, so I didn't bother playing at all!

They just want the rooms as full as possible I think.

The Venetian do track you closely as well

But that Chilli bloke is going for the deep stack tournament isn't he?

The tournaments count towards it I'm sure.

Not officially, if you ask the floor that question it will be no. The trick is to sit in on a cash game and swipe in before the tourney and they will turn a blind eye to it.

I've noticed that Virgin holidays are offering a package inc flights and hotel cheaper than I can book the flight with them at the moment. Might be worth a look.

How did you do in that tournament Keith....

I forget.

If only there was someone there to remind me how I did...

this

only if i go though!

I is going, for around ten days to incorporate the WSOP final table.
Staying at The Venetian.
It's cheap enough if you play half a dozen or so deepstacks and get the poker rate. They can't sort this out for you until the night before you leave. Keep your tournament receipts.

There seems enough flight/hotel packages available on expedia.co.uk at very reasonable prices

South Point

Can I ask why you are staying there? Do you know something the rest of us don't, or do you just prefer to be away from the strip when not playing?

No way - Really?



Cheers for everyones responses, much appreciated.  Still no 100% yet but a house with the lads sounds good atm!

Taxis are a bitch to sort out though imo.

I stayed there for 10 days 2 years ago.  Taxi's are easy to get, just cost me about $25 each way to the Rio or Venetian.

Gorgeous hotel though.

lol they sure are.  desert cabs are there in 10 mins.  easier than leeds!

It might be possible to hire a car in Las Vegas.  £20 a day all inc. for a full size motor and if you get mangled and have to leave the car somewhere for a couple of days, no problem.  South Point + car is still cheaper than many centre strip offerings.

I have had South Point and Red Rock on the "possibles" list for a while now.  Red Rock generally price themselves out, but South Point have plenty of offers, the rooms look up to date and great value and the food options are pretty good.  I would have booked it previously but they had one 'sold out' date in the middle of my dates which messed it up.

For people looking for the cheapest possible flights, remember that BA are now flying direct to Vegas from Heathrow (yipeee).

I am 50/50 going, I just need to put in more than an hour a day online.

what's the deal with people actually being able to see the FT? tickets or queue up for hours or some other arrangement?

Would assume you just wander in - there's nothing much to see.

There were skeptics who didn't think this Penn and Teller Theater would fill. Those people were proven wrong yesterday when there was a line out the door all day. Then there were people who believed that once the first seven busted out and their fans went looking for a bar that the heads-up battle would be void of spectators. Wrong again. Tonight, this theater is once again filled to capacity with a line of people waiting to get in. As one person here noted, "These aren't people who are here to watch one player. These are fans of poker."

Thats from last year, the players get allocated seating for their supporters so it should be fine.

and for the people based north of Watford (eg me) Thomas Cook fly direct from MAN

As do BMI, & a very good flight it is.

BMI stopped doing them in April

FFFFSSSSSSSSSS

Bugger. What if I backdate the Tickets?

Is it only the Venetian that have any sort of deepstack series in November?  What about Bellagio?  Caesars Palace?

It seems that only the very major tourneys are published so far in advance, I've not been able to find any other schedules yet but I'm sure there will be a few. Last year in October both Caesar's and Binion's had tourneys going.

On a side-note, I was quite looking forward to playing the PLO and PLO/8 events in The Venetian Deepstack series which they have always had up until now, but they appear to have been scrubbed ???

There is a WSOP circuit event at Ceasers which runs from end of Oct into November, and overlaps slightly wit the venetian - just google it - def not Deepstacked thou!!!!!

They only seem to have the mixed events during the summer festival at the venetian for some reason which is a shame....NLH tournaments everyday is so boring!

If anyone wants to share a room 2nd to 25th of November, give me a shout.

Chezger hit Vegas 14th - 21st Nov 2009

Btw, anyone coming has to see Steel Panther at Green Valley Ranch on a Friday night. They are the greatest.

BA and Virgin have just started a sale for direct flights to Vegas. £389 for Virgin, £399 for BA from flights between Nov and Dec 09.

http://www.skyscanner.net/
is ment to be the nuts

but i have never used it coz i only travel to hong kong

Beautiful. Was going to book for like £700 about 2 weeks ago, glad I waited!