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... :-)
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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.
After 10 days in Las Vegas, I am back in Europe for a few weeks. My first poker stop is Namur in Belgium. Useful links are available in the POKER TRIPS section.
The Venetian recently got a lot of attention after announcing the transformation of its poker room in order to make it the biggest room for poker in all of Vegas. Plans to complete the transformations are set for summer 2024 but there is not going to be much idle waiting in the meanwhile...
Since the WSOP 2024 schedule was released, Vegas plans are being made all across the global poker community.
What are your Las Vegas accommodation options?
It is becoming a tradition. Since 2016, I have been traveling to Las Vegas for a month at least once a year almost every year. Over the last years, the pace has significantly increased though and I am now spending something like 4 to 5 months a year in Nevada. One could say that I like it there... :-)
Everybody is focusing on the upcoming WSOP summer schedule after the official release of the full WSOP 2024 schedule but there is also a Circuit festival coming up this spring at the Horseshoe Las Vegas.
All info is available online on wsop.com. The WSOP dates are out, the bankroll is not looking too bad, and spring is slowly coming up. Surely, it's time to start taking care of finding a poker home in Las Vegas for the summer. Many will opt for comped rooms by playing a bunch and grinding rakeback points and offers at Caesars or MGM properties with a player loyalty card. There is also always the option of a less fancy room somewhere off-Strip for those who want to keep their travel budget in check.
For those who are more into comfort and convenience during a longer stay, the house renting option is always a great solution. BATTLE BORN REALTY is a resourceful high-quality service brokerage able to provide many solutions for your Las Vegas real estate rental or purchase needs.
The Fontainebleau is the latest addition to the modern multi-billion-dollar constructions on the Las Vegas Strip. I did a photo (and cocktail) tour of the casino area in December just before the new year and roughly two weeks after the official opening on December 13th, 2023.
One of Sin City's most well-known poker series is coming back to the Venetian poker room from late January.
The Venetian Deepstack Showdown will be back to the Las Vegas Strip between 8th and 28th January.
I've been coming to Vegas more and more since my first visit in 2015 or maybe 2016. I'm not a Sin City veteran or expert at all but I am starting to feel fairly good in this city that is not mine. The initial thrill of documenting a place usually fades away pretty quickly but what is nice here for me, is that the interest of shooting photos of all aspects of Las Vegas is not boring me yet. Quite the contrary is happening actually.
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