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| - I'm going be a bit more generous than my fellow Yelpers..don't worry, explanation will follow.
I'm play a dorky MMORPG called DragonRealms (or DR for short). If any of you fellow dorks (or even people from the 80s) that remember the old Infocom text based games like Zork or Enchanter, then you get the idea. Game is like that, but a bit more complex. Anyway, every year DR players gather twice a year, once at the official Simucon at St. Louis and the unofficial/player run convention in Las Vegas.
One of Simu's employees Solomon has his birthday in the first weekend of March, so it's good time for him to fly out, go out and eat, check out the strippers and drink until the early hours of the morning. Oh, we do have a short game forum or it would be just another extented party and not a convention. I've gone the last four years (twice at the Fountier, which has since been demo'ed) and twice here.
Here's my logic for a 3-star review:
For starters, our organizer got some pretty bomb-ass discounts for our room rates. $60 Friday & Saturday and $40 Wedneday, Thursday, Sunday? Yah, the rooms are pretty beat up (at least my non-smoking room only had a burn mark from a dropped iron right in the middle of the room) but our suite was OK. Not like I slept much anyway, although I did gamble some and took walks and 30min naps here and there.
Sahara is the only casino where you can host a gathering like this and they let you bring in outside alcohol. The hotel does have a small liquor store on site, but we're bringing up cases of beer, ice, mixers and whatnot, so we're not sitting at the main bar ordering $4.50 beers.
When I wasn't with the group, I spent a couple hours in their Abracadabrah bar (north side of the casino, before the NASCAR bar) and had nice pints of Bass or Guiness ($5 and $5.50), which was very reasonable (much better than the gal that ordered an MGD for $4.75). They also had a $12 50oz (more like 48oz) draft promotion, so you get a nice 50oz-ish of Guiness and a nice big 50th anniversity glass to take home. If you run into Jay from New York, he's the best bartender in the hotel. He was also nice enough to find a barback to get boxes for my nice new glasses.
Gambling-wise I was down $91 for the weekend, play five sessions of craps. People were either bucking the point or getting couple rolls before a 7-out. Thank God I was hedging, but I had a couple tables where the dealers were less than cordial, so no odds bet on point for the boys. My last table was terrible, as far as the dice went, but I learned a bit more from actual table time than at-home practice. Hint: when making place bets just give the dealer a stack of chips and tell him what you want....giving exact change slows you down and I lost a couple of key rolls because of this.
Another Yelper mentioned the lack of $1 tables; they might have differnent table limits during the day/night, weekend/weekday, but $5 tables on the Strip are pretty much standard...if you're looking for $1 action, you need to go to Fremont Street.
So, one star for the beat up room, one star for having our groups own booze and one star for Jay from New York (but he's a five star bartender).
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