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I am heading to Vegas later this week and will be playing NLHE Thursday,Friday, and Saturday nights.
I mostly play $2/5 but I may play some $5/10.
Do the $2/5 games have a capped buy in? And if so, how much?
My usual $2/5 game is uncapped.
I am staying at the Bellagio and mostly plan on playing there unless you guys have a better recommendation. (where are the easiest games with the most fish and least sharks?)
I would assume that T,F,S nights are good times to play in general.

Thanks in advance for any insights

Bellagio has $500 cap on 2/5

Bellagio 2/5 are generally good. I've been playing there 6 days a week. If you prefer deeper Aria is easy to get to from B and they have 1000 buy in on the 2/5 game. There is a monorail that runs between the two properties. Wish we could meet up but you're going to be there the exact three days I'll be in Tahoe.

So big owl? You saying your house/apartment is available?

Not trying to embarrass you into offering it to Yakes, rather, I would be willing to house sit

which

thanks for the responses thus far.
If anyone wants to meet up while I am there I would be interested.

which; get on a plane and get out there. you could share a room with me

So how's the weekend going? Give us a rundown of what you found and how you think the games are.

I've been playing $2/5 at the Bellagio
I was surprised to see that the quality of the players is really poor
Maybe one other player per table that has a clue
I am going to try $5/10 at Bellagio or head over to Aria tonight

Vegas games are super soft at 2/5 stacks iirc.

Overall, the $2/5 game at the Bellagio was soft.
There were generally three types of players:
1) typical calling station
2) aggro bluffer
3) solid but unimaginative regs

I have played $2/5 at many different places and so far Vegas seems to be the softest. I think this may be related to a few things.
1) the better players have many higher limits to choose from
2) the $2/5 game is either capped at 100BB (Bellagio) or 200BB (Aria); the usual game I play in is uncapped and frequently the biggest game so it is much tougher
3) the tourists who don't have a clue that play in the $2/5 game (as opposed to $1/2) seem to have plenty of money to gamble with and don't mind losing and when the do they just tend to reload

I ran into a friend I haven't seen in awhile and didn't play much the last night (when I was going to play $5/10), but there were several $5/10 players that sat down in the $2/5 game( while waiting for a $5/10 seat) and I was not that impressed with their play (still just a bunch a calling stations)

Overall the Bellagio and Aria staff were very good and the games ran smoothly and efficiently.
I did not have to wait more than 5 minutes for a seat at either place. The waitresses were a little better at Aria however.

The next time I visit will be in the fall and my plan is to try the Venetian and I will also plan to play $5/10 as long as there are bigger games running.