Best Poker Room In Las Vegas

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Many people feel intimidated the first time they enter a Las Vegas poker room as everything seems new and unknown. However, if you are a beginner player, the first experience with a Las Vegas poker room shouldn’t feel like that. Instead, there are a number of poker rooms in Vegas for beginners you can check. The low stakes poker is what you really need as those rooms are full of fun-loving tourists, just like you. A low stakes poker game is a $2/$4 Limit Hold’em, also known as ‘2/4 limit.’ So, if you want to play poker in Las Vegas for the first time, you should start with a low-limit game. Here are the best poker rooms you can find in Vegas if you’re a poker newbie. If you yet cannot make it to Las Vegas, you can go to various online casinos. However, some of the casinos online have a Gamstop tool that prevents players from UK for example to approach the site. You can check this list of non UK licensed casinos and find the one you like.

Now, let’s see what Las Vegas is offering.

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Golden Nugget

This poker room is an exceptional choice if you happen to be in downtown Las Vegas. There are 13 smoke-free tables in a tight room, which is the most luxurious poker room on our list. Moreover, different levels of live cash poker games are always available staring from beginner low limits. The plush décor and the comfortable seats make this room one of the most popular in Sin City.

Bally’s

This poker room is a paradise for beginners. So, you get exceptional cocktail service and the softest games around without a notable absence of pros. The Bally’s offers many exciting varieties of casino poker, which can suit everyone from beginner to the seasoned veteran of the game. The room is open 24/7 and it’s the major venue for no-limit Hold’em players. There are 18 tables in the poker room which offer 1-2 No Limit, 3-6 Limit Hold’em, and Daily Guaranteed Tournaments. However, you might find the room very busy and tiny.

Planet Hollywood

If you are an avid nightclub enthusiast, you’ll love playing in this room. The atmosphere exceeds everyone’s expectations. This isn’t an actual poker room, but just 10+ tables in the center of the casino. The place can get quite busy, but it offers a unique poker experience. You’ll find cash games, tournaments, WSOP events, and $1/$2 and $2/$5 No-Limit Hold’Em live cash cation.

MGM

This poker room is one of the most active rooms packed with tourists. The poker room is part of a spectacular hotel and smoke-free all the time. The drinks are always free and you can easily mistake it for a party. The MGM is quite close to Centrifuge Bar and there is a real mix of players here. It’s the perfect spot for a poker newbie as it will show you the game in Las Vegas. Note that the chances of meeting a professional poker player here are very low.

Excalibur

This cool poker room has it all, from drunk tourists to cheap tourneys. In Excalibur, you get the easy level of play with little or no pro players, but only tourists and weekend warriors. The loose and soft play happens from midnight to 6 a.m., while during the day the games get a bit tighter. The mid-sized poker room on the Las Vegas Boulevard offers lower-limit cash games and tournaments. It is definitely one of the best places on this list for beginner poker players.

Mandalay Bay

This nice poker room is located at the far south end of the Las Vegas Strip. The Mandalay Bay has a variety of no-limit and limit Hold’em games, as well as, three daily tournaments. The room is quite small with 12 tables of continuous action. Note that the Mandalay Bay poker room is only open Monday through Thursday, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 a.m., while it is open 24 hours on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Additionally, the room also offers free poker lessons for beginners Monday through Thursday at 2:00 p.m.

Flamingo

The 12-table poker room is one of the most well-established poker rooms in the City of Lights. Hence, you will find No-Limit Hold’em, the best 2-4, 3-6 & 4-8 Limit Hold’em, 5 daily tournaments and interesting promotions. So, the Flamingo poker room is one of the best Las Vegas poker rooms for beginners.

Caesars Palace

This 24-hour poker room features 16 tables with free upgraded Wi-Fi and USB charging ports, which can be found at each seat. The Caesars Palace poker room offers cash games of all stakes and a full daily schedule of Las Vegas poker tournaments. This poker room is probably the largest on this list.

Bellagio

The Bellagio poker room is the most stylish one in Sin City. However, it has a busy cash action and thus, it offers just one daily no-limit Hold’Em (NLHE) tournament at 2:00 p.m. It is a very luxurious room which might feel a bit intimidating for you as a beginner, but you’ll get an unforgettable experience.

People ask me this question over and over and over and over and over. No not how do you play pocket jacks. Even more frequently than that.

“I’m coming to Vegas for my company conference/21st birthday/brother’s bachelor party and I’m a recreational poker player. Which poker room should I play at?”

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Reasonable question considering the number of rooms in small proximity. There were even more before! No longer is Hooters or the Trop or TI or Fitzgerald’s an option. I’ve heard that in Atlantic City, you basically wanna be at the Borgata and forget everything else. And in LA there’s really only a small handful of prime choices. In Vegas, there’s lots!

Here’s the thing about the Las Vegas poker ecosystem and those who regularly inhabit it: We have a big reputation, but we’re actually a small town. And in small towns, word gets around quick. So imagine there was a poker room where people were blasting away, punting stacks of cash on the reg, the promised land of poker rooms. What do you think the highest concentration of poker professionals and semi professionals in any particular geography would do in that dream scenario? If you guessed they’d probably flock there, I’d say that’s a solid guess. Before long, the promised land becomes a wasteland of minimally profitable poker and a no-man’s land for your lanyarded self.

Instead that’s not really what happens. Games are good in some rooms sometimes, other rooms other times. Generally great at night/graveyard because we’re a party destination, whereas in other cities it can be midweek afternoons that are prime. But you never really know what will happen where and when ahead of time.

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There are some general traits based on one or two factors that could results in less regs and locals playing in particular rooms. Sure. I’ll mention that below. But the biggest deciding factor regarding which room to play in will probably come down to personal preferences. Here are my personal favorite poker rooms:

Wynn
The gold standard. Great dealers, even better floor staff who know exactly how to phrase everything they say to sound both professional and personable. Super comfortable room with ample space. Sharply appointed. Food is on the pricey side but still a couple reasonable options. All the games have the biggest max buyins in town, which again is going to come down to personal preference on whether that’s a plus or minus. I think the games are probably slightly tougher than average due to having more money available on the table, but you will also have the Wynn clientele occasionally wandering into the room to balance that. The tournament area just outside the poker room has natural light coming in during the daytime. And, the people watching. (Wynn nightclubs are the best.)

Aria
In my mind it’s a 1B to the Wynn’s 1A. Better food options but a little more crowded and almost always seems to have at least a little longer of waitlists (which are brutal during WSOP). Again, exceptional dealers and staff. Nice and plush. The homebase for PLO in Vegas.

Golden Nugget
The last stalwart to allow $100 bills to play in the games, which are all uncapped. It’s usually standard fare $1/$2NL, but as a result of dismissing the cap you could wind up in the best $1/$2NL on the planet at any given time. It’s a proper gem and the only real place to play in DTLV. (Binions sadly moved their games into the pit to die a slow death.)

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Planet Hollywood
This is very much personal preference related, because if you don’t like loud music and go-go dancers when you’re tryna fuckin’ grind, don’t come here. It’s the most party atmosphere of any room in Vegas by far. Speaking of far, the self parking is miles away and you have to trek through the godforsaken tribute to American commercialism that is the Miracle Mile mall. As a result of that aspect, a lot of locals don’t have it in them to even get to the poker room. So the games can be above average. Also, two of the best dealers in all of Vegas work here: Allison and Chase. I wish I could say the same about the management… but hey, go-go dancers!

Bellagio
Game quality is good. North valet is good. Several of the floorpeople are very good. Some of the dealers are very good, like Crissy and Joe and Trina and a few others. Food is decent. But it’s definitely cramped and a little… not sure. Old? Each time I’ve moved up in stakes, first to 2/5 then to 5/10, I’ve used Bellagio as my stepping stone. The flip side to the Wynn, they have the lowest caps on their games and as a result I think the game quality benefits at least somewhat with less money available on the table. The Bellagio can bank on their location and reputation to just be a little on the meh side, but because of the above it’ll have to remain in the rotation for me, personally.

Honorable Mentions!

Mirage
Definitely a reasonable spot for low stakes games. Very accommodating staff if you want to bring a group of friends in and all play together.

Bally’s
I don’t know if this property has an ounce of personality to it, but the poker room will generally be on the softer side due to self parking stuff.

Mandalay Bay
I played a ton here when I first moved to Vegas. Seems to get reasonable low stakes games. Pretty comfortable room. Can celebrate a good session with a drink in the Skylounge.

Caesars
Can also be pretty noisy in here, without the go-go dancers. But yeah, could challenge PH for biggest party vibe with the Omnia entrance within view of the poker room. If you play 2/5 you feel kinda high-rollerish as they put that game in the back, kinda-sorta cordoned off.

Red Rock
Gets 2/5 every day, nice property… but you’re never gonna go way the fuck out there.

Ok so let’s recap. There are 3 spots where I basically spend all of my poker time: Wynn, Bellagio, and Aria. I think generally games will be a little tougher at the Wynn and Aria due to how nice these rooms are. Think about it: If you’re a pro or semi pro, and you’re spending a ton of your time in the poker rooms, you’re gonna wanna work to get to a spot where you’re actually enjoying your surroundings. That said you just never know because at any one time there could be a ridiculously profitable 2/5 game going at the Wynn. It happens quite frequently, really. It just isn’t nonstop in any one spot, if that makes sense…

Best Poker Room In Las Vegas For Beginners

A game will be amazing for a bunch of hours, until it isn’t. Then another one somewhere else will be amazing, until it isn’t. Etc. The point is this: Have a think about what it is you want out of a poker room, then decide where to go based on that (or maybe on how many games are running on the Bravo Live app list). If you’re looking to have fun, you can do that in almost any poker room, and 1/2 and 1/3 will generally be good everywhere. Don’t base your Vegas trip success on getting rich quick in some secret location that only I/people in-the-know can direct you to. Base it around having fun.

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Andrew

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P.S. There is an obvious omission on this list because it’s run by He Who Shall Not Be Named. If you wanna go there, have at it. If not, cool. A lot of poker players get into poker so that they can tune out of all the BS in the world and just play cards. I get that. I’ve chosen not to give them any free publicity in my vlog, but has it made any difference? Probably not.