Bellagio Poker Room Reviewed

Introduction:
The poker room in the hotel Bellagio is lavishly designed, but that is not what I have examined. In the following article, you will be able to read about the different poker games and tournaments offered as well as the poker tables, odds and gaming pros and cons.

Poker can be played at three venues: the regular poker room for regular poker games, Bobbys poker room for high stake gaming and at Club Prive which means playing poker in one of the private card rooms that are for hire. Each of these are located in the Bellagio casino on the Las Vegas Strip, and it spreads over more than seven thousand square feet. Each of the above have over forty tables and a large variety of games including limit and no limit Texas Holdem, Omaha stud and seven card stud.

Advantages:
1) A regular WPT tournament venue, playing poker at this casino gives you the chance to play where celebrities have been but also allows you to enter and watch those games live.

2) Your health is highly taken care of all through the gaming area because the Bellagio does not allow anybody to light a cigarette or a cigar or anything of the kind and smoke it indoors.

3) You have a wide range of poker games and limits to choose from. If you like to dare, you can opt for the no limit Omaha and Texas holdem tournaments where you are allowed to raise the pot to as high as you wish it to be.

4) Drinks are served to players for no cost and they also give you safety deposit boxes in which you can keep your valuables.

5) Three different tournaments take place at the Bellagio. The first is as I stated above: the No Limit Holdem countdown. But there are two more highly popular tournaments. From Sundays to Thursdays, the buy in amounts to fifty dollars as well as a starting sum of five hundred and if you prefer the weekend, then the sum multiplies by two into a thousand dollars and an eighty dollar buy in.

Cons:
1) Because the poker room at Bellagio is highly esteemed and brings in many enthusiasts, you will have to wait for quite some time until a chair opens up. If you are in Vegas during the weekend, the waiting might stretch up to an hour or more.

2) Pros and highly skilled players like the Bellagio and frequent this poker room. This means that if you are a beginner or even a moderately skilled player, you will find it very difficult to win.

3) Because the Bellagio serves the finest booze and because their bartenders have the ability to whip up cocktails that will make you ask for more, this is not a very ideal place to bet money at.

4) If you play at one of the high stake rooms such as Bobbys Poker rooms, you will be competing against world professionals and not just local self-named experts.

Conclusion:
If you consider yourself a professional or at least have respectable skills at playing this card game, then the poker room at Bellagio is the one to pick if you are in Vegas. But, if you are relatively new to the game, stay away from the Bellagio and choose another Las Vegas poker room unless you want to lose all your money and fast.

About the Author

Jack Reider examines a number of poker rooms and online casinos for http://www.gambling-portal.com and other game portals. He is also a professional card game expert and is writing his first book on picking casinos that fit your needs.