[sokoloff]

During the TV-fueled boom of no-limit hold’em and around Chris Moneymaker’s WSOP main event win, friends and I would travel every year to Vegas to play in the side games and satellites leading up to the WSOP. Staying in the (now gone) Imperial Palace for $25/night, it was relatively easy to beat the single-table satellites by enough to pay for the flights the first Friday and then grind out an overall profit on the rest of the days.

That’s a special case of “big advantage in skill” in the sense that the WSOP/TV boom drew a bunch of players with way more aspiration than skill/experience and the games were easily beatable by players of typical home game winner level of skill as a result.

[jedberg]

The IP is only gone in spirit -- the building is still there, they just renovated it and jacked the price.

But you can still get cheap gross rooms at Circus Circus!