How many Vegas based pros are earning 500k+ a year and how are they doing it?

How many Vegas based pros are earning 500k+ a year and how are they doing it?

All of the old school advice from the Super System era seems to recommend learning a wide variety of poker formats (mix

04 January 2025 at 08:25 PM
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I think he meant you would have to be invited to play.


by chillrob

I think he meant you would have to be invited to play.

Out of my league (:

You need an invitation,even if the game is in Casino ?

WOW I didn’t know .


by riverph7

I don’t think there would be a line to get in to 3000-6000 Game !!
How much you need to get in to those kind of game ?
50 Big Blind ?

IE $300 K !!!

I am a casual player and only comfortable with $75-$500 Buy-in tournaments��

And that’s even only 2/3 time a year.

Even thinking about bankroll of $300K gives me goosebumps!!

If a 3k/6k is going, it's because there is a big donator in the game. Once a big donator shows up, the game fills. (Pros who cannot afford to play in the game will pool their resources to get one guy in the game.....each will take 1k/2k of the action or something similar.)

Usually the best game going in the room is the highest stakes game.


by riverph7

I don’t think there would be a line to get in to 3000-6000 Game !!
How much you need to get in to those kind of game ?
50 Big Blind ?

IE $300 K !!!

I am a casual player and only comfortable with $75-$500 Buy-in tournaments��

And that’s even only 2/3 time a year.

Even thinking about bankroll of $300K gives me goosebumps!!

I believe this would be 3k/6k limit mixed-games. So big blind in the flop games is 3k. I imagine you could get away with buying in for 100k.


by NickMPK

I believe this would be 3k/6k limit mixed-games. So big blind in the flop games is 3k. I imagine you could get away with buying in for 100k.

When I used to play LHE I bought in for 30 bigs, and I was somewhat light. 30 big bets would be 180k in the above game.

If you walk up to Bobby's Room and open the door, you'll get quick attention from the brush, or someone like that. Tell him you're looking for such and such a game and have a half mill to put on the table. I bet you'd be playing within an hour.


by Grape Soda

All of the old school advice from the Super System era seems to recommend learning a wide variety of poker formats (mix games, plo, nlhe, tourneys). Since Vegas offers such a wide variety of poker games, and the quality of any given game depends so heavily on one or two out of town fish who may visit sporadically, is this still the case in Vegas? Or in the modern ecosystem are

From Vegas you can fly to LA or Texas for the good games. That would be my advice.


by chillrob

Hiking is not good for half the year in Las Vegas, unless you like getting up really early.

Mt Charleston is always available in the summer to hike. So yes, there is year around hiking in Vegas.


by thedude404

Mt Charleston is always available in the summer to hike. So yes, there is year around hiking in Vegas.

Exactly and its why that guy doesnt do handshakes, he was still all sweaty from his nice hike on Mt. Charleston before the sesh


by borg23

200k is definitely doable for someone good who puts in a lot of hours in plo and has variance on their side in a given year.

Agreed. However the key is making sure variance is on your side. You have no control over that

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