Big Game (poker)

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The Big Game is a high-stakes poker cash game played in "Bobby's Room", a cardroom named after Bobby Baldwin, at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. In 2010, the game partially expanded to "The Ivey Room" at Aria Resort and Casino.{{Cite web| title = The New Big Game: $200/$400 Mixed Heats Up Aria's Ivey Room| author = Elissa Harwood| work = PokerNews| date = 2010-09-02| accessdate = 2014-12-23| url = http://www.pokernews.com/news/2010/09/the-new-big-game-200-400-mixed-heats-up-aria-s-ivey-room-8834.htm}} The table features no-limit and pot-limit games with wagers up to $100,000 per hand.{{Cite web| title = RISK: The Biggest Game Ever| author = Dan Michalski| work = dmagazine.com| year = 2004| accessdate = 2014-12-23| url = http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2004/december/risk-the-biggest-game-ever}} Limit games as high as $4,000/$8,000 are often played but $800/$1,600 is normal.{{cite book|author1=Sam Farha|author2=Storms Reback|title=Farha on Omaha: Expert Strategy for Beating Cash Games and Tournaments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVcxgPfUy0AC&pg=PT74|date=1 October 2007|publisher=Triumph Books|isbn=978-1-61749-920-3|pages=74–}}{{cite book|author=Des Wilson|title=Ghosts at the Table: Riverboat Gamblers, Texas Rounders, Roadside Hucksters, and the Living Legends Who Made Poker What it is Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cjNjBlbhwkAC&pg=PT269|year=2009|publisher=Da Capo Press, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-7867-3205-0|pages=269–}}

Structure

The table features a variety of poker games played in rotation and changing every 8–10 hands. The games are selected from a list of the players' choices, including:

Texas hold 'em (limit and no limit)
Seven-card stud (straight high, eight or better Hi/Lo, Hi/Lo without qualifiers, limit)
Omaha (straight high, eight or better Hi/Lo, limit and pot limit)
Deuce-to-seven triple draw (limit)
Deuce-to-seven single draw (no limit)
Ace-to-Five triple draw (limit)
Ace-to-Five single draw (no limit)
Razz (limit)

Usual players

Usually players buy in for $200,000–300,000, but anyone with the minimum buy in of $20,000 is welcome to play.[https://www.bellagio.com/en/casino/bobbys-room.html "Las Vegas Poker - Bobby's Poker Room - Bellagio"] In addition to the occasional drop-in player, the following players have been known to play regularly in the Big Game over the years:{{Cite web|title=The Big Game: A Closer Look At The Biggest Game In The World |author=Bluff Staff |work=BLUFF Magazine |year=2006 |accessdate=2014-12-23 |url=http://www.bluff.com/magazine/the-big-game-bluff-takes-a-closer-look-at-the-biggest-game-in-the-world-10478/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223040221/http://www.bluff.com/magazine/the-big-game-bluff-takes-a-closer-look-at-the-biggest-game-in-the-world-10478/ |archivedate=2014-12-23 }}

Chip Reese and Doyle Brunson were regulars until they died.

References

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