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07-25-2007, 12:48 AM
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07-25-2007, 09:58 AM
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07-25-2007, 10:02 AM
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The Monte Carlo is a great book if you don't like crowds. It's small, but usually there are plenty of seats.
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07-25-2007, 10:06 AM
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The Orleans isn't the nicest place around, but their book is very horseplayer friendly. There are plenty of seats there that face only in the direction of the horse racing monitors. The sports seats face an opposite direction. Not a bad alternative, usually with cheap rooms.
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07-25-2007, 10:36 AM
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The 2 problems with Vegas are #1 the BC is definatley taking a back seat to College Football. #2. The casinos with the really nice horse books are going to take care of thier primary customers that day. Their main guys that are there all the time and also whatever big shooters are at the casino during that weekend. So if you are a big shot and frequent one of these casinos often then you might have a chance at a really nice day, maybe even with a party and so on. I would think that this would be a big time chance for them to sell their hotel to some potential big time clientele too. You would think that alot big Cali guys will just go to Vegas for the weekend instead of coming to Jersey. So I think the normal guy will end up getting the short end of the stick in Vegas. As far as AC goes, I was at the Trump Marinia Monday night. Went looking for the Horse room and the entrence was located in a hall that you use when you go to the restroom. As far as the room goes, it was like being in the room that they were shooting dice in during A Bronx Tale. Execpt with slightly better light and a couple more TV's. The main problem with the horse rooms in AC are that they are not big enough. The Borgota's are nice with the individual tv's but you better get there early. Harrah's does not even have a Horse room. AC is more interested in cashing in on the poker craze and other gaming then it is in horse racing. They are probably right, they only have this problem 2-3 times a year. My personal opinion, go to your local track nice and early. Get a good spot in the tele-theater or the restaurant and enjoy the day there where you are familiar with the surroundings and maybe even some of the people. At least you won't bet fighting people looking for the $2 dollar buffet, or lose a seat to a guy that is there 5 hours early to bet Yonkers!
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07-25-2007, 11:16 AM
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I liked Mandalay Bay was barely anyone there and it was huge. I spent most of my sportsbook time at the Bellagio and Wynn. Caesars was huge but there was really no place to sit, plus the smoke there was just unbearable especially the cigar smoke. If there was only one thing I hated was the smoke inside Caesar's Palace
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07-25-2007, 11:25 AM
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07-25-2007, 02:04 PM
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07-27-2007, 12:08 AM
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if there are seats there for the bc they'll close the book the following sunday. i liked the comment about getting to bally's by 9am for a seat. I'm there (or a surrogate depending on how golf went friday) by 6am. the seats are gone by 7.
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07-27-2007, 11:34 AM
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the only thing I dont like about the Bellagio sports book is its lack of lighting, its like the only source of light comes from the poker room. The Wynn gave me that Bellagio feel with alot more light, I spent most of my time at the Bellagio due to the poker
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07-25-2007, 10:13 AM
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The Mandalay Bay Sports book has gone way downhill. I would definitely not advise going there during the NCAA tourney. First of all, they only have 2 tellers most of the time & the line backs up into the casino. Second, if they do have 3, one of them is supposedly dedicated to horseplayers (AKA, you can walk right up....problem is, they take tourney bets when there are no horseplayers in line. If you walk up to make a horse bet, the line (which is like 100 deep, gets pissed off at you because they think you're cutting in line). It was a mess last March.
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