Once again, kind wishes of success, health and we hope you find plenty of juicy tables full of drunk whales running bad against you :-)
After a winter of shooting photos at events and playing cash games all over Las Vegas, it is about time to move on to cold Europe for a few weeks. The holidays are a great time to spend in Sin City with its mild weather and busy casinos. It is definitely worth a try for those who only know Vegas under a scorching sun. Beside the POKER TRIPS section filling up with events in Europe, we are also slowly starting to get ready for another busy poker summer. The hunt for VEGAS POKER SUMMER HOMES has begun!
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NYE in Las Vegas is quite spectacular but after a month in town, the constant noise and distractions the Strip has to offer, quickly get a bit old. What never gets old to me, is finding a great view point at the edge of the mountains and get a bit higher up to get Strip views during sunrises, sunset or fireworks shows.
Happy and successful 2025 to all - have fun at the tables! I'll see you everywhere!
Enjoy that most wonderful time of the year because the break will not last for long... :-) Loads of poker action is coming up in the coming weeks and we have published a quite astonishing 2025 live poker preview on PokerFirma.com.
Enjoy this #allineverywhere preview for January 2025. This is it - the last trip of yet another busy year of #allineverywhere .
2025 will come with a few changes but for now, I am focusing on and enjoying another winter in Las Vegas where my main mission is to document the World Poker Tour World Championship festival. Daily updates and photo albums are to be found through PokerFirma.com as well as on X, IG & FB. 2024 will end where it started for me: in Las Vegas.
Just like last winter, I am very-super-max-fortunate to have an all access photo pass for the World Poker Tour Championship festival this December at the Wynn/Encore casino on the Strip - pew pew - shooting time! Reports will be available via PokerFirma.com. Resorts World Las Vegas stands on storied ground with a deep-rooted history on the Las Vegas Strip. Located on the site of the former Stardust Resort and Casino, the epicenter of glamour and gaming during Vegas’s early rise to fame in the 1950s and ‘60s, the property got famous for its outer-space-themed signage and allure, entertaining guests from all over the world from 1958 until 2006 when it was demolished, leaving this valuable Strip location vacant and awaiting a new legacy for a few years. The bitter 2008 pill had to be swallowed first.
The-Rounder.net has been going through a few evolutions since the pandemic. One of them is that the website and the community around it are growing and the whole thing is not managed as a one-monkey show anymore. The team is supposed to reach a count of 5-6 people by early 2025. Visit the CONTACT & INFO section for details about our activities.
Portugal-based Alexandre Rotenberg has never been very far from the happenings around The-Rounder.net over the last years, so he was a natural addition to the core of the project over time. We have just used some of his South Africa shots in an article about the Cape Town Million 2024 featuring the Hendonmob Championship in collaboration with Sunbet Poker Tour and there is a lot more coming. Another addition to the team has organically been growing as a trusted community member from Las Vegas since 2023. Michelle Richey offers assistance to traveling players looking for a temporary or permanent place to stay in Las Vegas and will add content to website by sharing experiences and helping with the POKER TRIPS section. Welcome, Michelle!
October was packed with plenty of live poker events all over the place. In Las Vegas, where I am spending the beginning of the colder season, the Wynn Autumn Classic festival is coming to an end as the next major event is about to start on the Strip.
The poker winds are taking us to Portugal, Belgium and Nevada over the coming weeks. All poker events we promote are listed in the POKER TRIPS. We also prepare at least one POKER RADAR CHECK travel preview published by PokerFirma.
Besides the regular travel offers featured in the POKER TRIPS section, we are also always ready to provide information and assistance to help you setup a great poker base during your next visit in Sin City thanks to our local agent, Battle Born Realty's Michelle Richey. Thinking of renting or buying a place as your next poker HQ?
Get in touch now for free searches and custom quotes.
It's that time of the year again. Poker summer is coming to an end... at least my Las Vegas part of it. There will be more poker for me throughout the rest of summer but it will be on the European side. Belgium to start with, a few days after flying from Las Vegas to Amseterdam and Malta later in early September. More trips might be added to the list but have repeatedly told me that one has to sleep and take care of oneself and see loved ones sometimes... so I will also try that a bit during August. Might be worth it... :-)
Time to fly to Europe soon for a series of exciting poker festivals across the continent. Details are being updated in the POKER TRIPS section over these weeks and it's always possible to join the WHATSAPP community for weekly poker travel inspiration.
At the end of this U.S. trip, more than 2.000 photo impressions will have been added to my archive. Most of them are being published for PokerFirma.com. All of them are available for viewing in the Flickr archive below. Prepare a tea, sit back and enjoy the views. The last minute summer poker rentals have more or less been taken care of at this stage and we are navigating full steam ahead towards the end of another extended stay in Las Vegas. What started as a slow year on the Nevada real estate market, turned into a pretty busy spring and summer with properties coming back on the market and buyers being out for shopping again. Many new rental options are also available for mid-term and long-term stays?
Tired of the ridiculously overpriced Strip life? Planning a long grind in Las Vegas over the coming months? Or maybe, you are even thinking about investing in Sin City... Soon, the WPT will kick off the Alpha8 Trifecta series at the Wynn Las Vegas Poker Room. Three glamorous two-day events are coming up for a buy-in of 25k USD each.
The dates are set to June 25-26, July 3-4 and July 10-11. I am fortunate enough to be one of the lucky photo people running around with an official WPT Media Pass this summer in Las Vegas and I will be delivering photos of the Wynn for PokerFirma.com. Every day, PokerFirma report about the WSOP in Las Vegas abbd about loads of other stuff that is hot in poker world from the Austria office and I deliver some additional content and photos to help illustrate the website with fresh info from Las Vegas. All our interventions are online at wwww.pokerfirma.com.
Every week, new properties appear on the market and Battle Born's Michelle Richey is there to help us find that providential needle in the hay stack when it comes to picking your new home base in Sin City.
I am roughly halfway through my spring/summer U.S. trip after six weeks of moving around in and around Las Vegas. PokerFirma.com provide daily updates with some of my photos as illustrations. More photos are added almost daily to their Facebook albums too and a huge pile of photos is online in the PHOTO ARCHIVE.
I've been in the U.S. for a full month already. Nevada, Arizona, California. Life is good but my digital cameras are working hard in the desert heat. Hundreds of photos came together already and I have decided to do occasional photo recaps in the form of video dumps on my YouTube channel.
The South Point poker room in Las Vegas is offering four daily tournaments per day over the summer and there will be a tournament of champions featuring all winners of these dailies.
Check out the South Point website for details.
SAVE THE DATE - Tyler Nals is back in the mix with fun meet-up games in Las Vegas this summer. The DONKEY POKER CRAWL date is set to 28th June 2024 and the games will take place at the Westgate and Sahara casinos.
DONKEY POKER CRAWL: WESTGATE: noon - 6pm SAHARA: 7pm - 1am (cancelled) CHANGE OF LOCATION !! MANDALAY BAY instead of SAHARA - see below. All games start at 1/2 and will be played in NLH format. Everybody is welcome. And everybody's friends too! When I shoot real estate photos in the Las Vegas region, it is usually to help Battle Born's Michelle Richey to interact with buyers and sellers but we are also able to provide great rental solutions for Poker Summer in Sin City.
All info links to reach out to her are available HERE.
One week in Vegas already.
All updates are online in the LAS VEGAS tab of this blog. In the meanwhile, it's photo time with this 1-minute photo dump we posted on our Facebook page! A bunch of ladies event are coming up in Vegas during the LIPS Ladies Poker Summer Camp. LIPS stands for 'Ladies International Poker Series' and info can be found on the official website.
After an extended stay in Luxembourg for business meetings, dentist appointments, and online poker sessions instead of some poker boa vida in Portugal, I made my way to Amsterdam over Namur and Brussels in order to catch a flight back to Vegas.
Poker Summer begins early and will last for long this year since I'm planning to stay in the U.S. until late July.
More content will be available throughout summer via the links below.
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