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Has anyone played any of the golf courses there? I'm going to be there at the end of October and have a day free while my wife is at a conference. I was debating finding a tournament to play in or playing golf. Still haven't made up my mind, although I may be leaning towards playing golf if the courses are nice. We're staying at the Wynn if that is in any way relevant. Edit: I couldn't decide whether to ask this here or in the golf megathread, but decided to try here first.
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ColdBlooded posted:golf answers Thanks! I think you've convinced me to play golf, which is for the best. Last time I played a course with arroyos was like 94 or 95, and the photos from your link told me to do it.
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Oct 15, 2011 02:31
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WouldDesk posted:If you want to golf in Vegas, give this a gander... Yeah, I've seen that and Rio Secco's t mates. If I wasn't there with my wife, I probably would. She golfs too, though, so I'm not touching that, since she will end up looking at the course slope/rating and what I score. If there's t mates.... Not worth it. Some other time!
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Oct 15, 2011 03:12
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I'll give a trip report too. My wife and I stayed at the Wynn, and everything was good with the room. I was there last Fri-Tues, and she was there Fri-Thurs, since she had a conference. The Wynn sportsbook was so-so, $300 required football bet to get a drink coupon, although if you played penny slots outside they gave you free drinks. $25 dollar craps tables, and everyone was cool teaching you to play if you didn't already know craps (we didn't), including the players. We lost a couple hundred bucks between us when we learned, so no big deal at those rates. Would have made money if we took 6/8 advice earlier... My wife made a lot of people a decent amount of money on her first roll. We didn't end up gambling there much. We ended up spending Saturday doing a Grand Canyon plane commute followed by a copter/walking tour, which was good, although a bit colder than we expected. I recommend the copter tour, it was awesome, if short. The plane rides were nothing special, except they confirmed what we read on the internet about the skywalk - namely it is tiny. So that was a good trip, although it was one of the more expensive ones. Then we went and saw a comedian at the Hilton. He was fine, the place seemed okay and we heard it and the MGM were where you should be for football. Sunday we spent at the MGM book for football since it was walking distance, instead of walking plus monorail. $125 minimum bet or a drink ticket or $5 minimum horse race bet (no idea what the corresponding horse bet was at the Wynn). So, after some football bets, we would randomly make $5 favorite / grey horse (my wife's system), funny name show bets and get drink tickets whenever we wanted. Pro tip: if you're getting beer, walk to the sports bar behind you as you will get pint aluminum bottles instead of 12 oz beers.  Also make friends with people around you, they'll just give you drink tickets. then you can pass on the wealth to people that join you later or whatever.At one point here, we discovered that the outback above casino royale has normal prices on everything, so we ate there. Perfectly normal outback, good views of TVs showing your wife's 10 game O/U parlay that was 5/5 on the first games and 4/4 on the second when you leave to eat fall apart when there is a random kick return for a touchdown in the Cinci/Seattle game.  That turned out irrelevant though, since the Dal/Phi game hit the under. Some consolation, I suppose. After Sunday night football, some of her coworkers had shown up and been hitting the drink tickets, but then wanted to learn craps. So, we walk over to Casino Royale where they have $5 tables. Everyone makes money, or loses less than $100, and drinks for free.  The casino is predictably rundown, but hey, $5 craps on the strip, what do you want???Then Monday hits and she goes to the conference. I check out the Ferrari/Maserati show room in the Wynn, which is kinda cool, but nothing like say, the Corvette factory in Bowling Green. there are some Ferraris, some Maseratis, and some other stuff. Maybe bigger if you're a Ferrari freak, but I'm not, and should have just gambled that :tenbux: on something stupid. I played the Wynn noon no-juice rebuy ($125 entry, one $100 rebuy if you bust pre break) without clarifying when you could buy in. I could give a stupid bad beat story, but who cares? The important thing is that the talent level wasn't that much higher than my usual monthly league and playing too tight screws you on rebuy, since you can't do it post break. I should have clarified that ahead of time. Also, there were roughly 35-40 people that entered, no idea on how many rebought. There's another one (Mirage???) that is similar pricing, no rebuys, and it usually gets 100+. I didn't want that time commitment. The room was fine, dealers were fine, and I'd do that again for a short tourney. Then I flew home Tuesday. Fine trip, 4 days was enough, and just like its been 5 or 6 years since we last went, it'll probably be the same unless I go for a convention or she does.
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