I will try and run down each room in the order that I played them, and I will try not to be too long winded. I was the first ot arrive on Friday Dec 8th of 4 friends. I was in Vegas for fun with business to follow on Monday thru Wednesday.

I got to the MGM where we stayed for the first two nights, checked in and hit the poker room. I played 1-2 nl for the first two hours waiting for my friends to arrive and was up about 120.00 after two hours of play when my friends arrived. What can I say that hasn't been said before except that aside from the Venetian, overall the nicest room that I played in. I did feel more relaxed in the MGM than I did in the Venetian, It just seemed less intimidating for a person who primarily plays online, a more relaxed atmosphere if you will.

After my friends arrived we went on to play the 7pm tourney at the aladdin. I actually like where the poker room is right now but i believe when all the construction is done the poker room will be downstairs on the main casino floor. right now its up one floor from the main casino not to far from the meeting rooms. It makes for a quieter room than some of those that I played in and made for a nice change of pace. I played a total of 3 tournaments there cashing in one for 192.00. With the 60.00 buy ins you can see I was up about 12.00 dollars after those tournaments. As a side note one of my friends cashed twice at the aladdin tourneys twice taking first once.

Later that night another friend came into town and he and I made our way over to the Excalibur poker room and played 2/4 and their spread came for a couple of hours. I will always like the excalibur because that was my first poker room that I played in the last time I had been to vegas for a bachelor party. This time I ended down about 50.00 but I have a hard time with 2-4 limit any more, almost every hand had 7+ to the flop and three to the river, but that is to be expected for that low of limit.

Next morning went back to Aladdin for there 11 am tourney, my second one their, But then went over to the Paris casino as my friends prefer tourneys to cash games, and with the paris having a new tourney starting every two hours its very convenient. I cashed once in five trys at the paris. As a side note I think the dinner buffet at the paris is the best I have ever tried in vegas.

This concludes the portion of time that my friends were in town. They all had to leave by sunday night. On that night I moved from the MGM to the Las Vegas hilton.