1. Venetian
2. Aria
3. Wynn
4. Bellagio
5. MGM Grand
2-4 is pretty close. I think the Aria will do well in time (it just opened up in Dec 2009)...
(I never actually played in the Rio's poker room. I just played in the Amazon room for cash/satellites.)
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poker room differences
mirage and mgm grand
the table/felt is raised above the playing surface
it was kind of annoying as cards might get flipped over during dealing as it slides down to the player
mirage - wooden area where chips arelined up
mgm grand - metal
majority of places use all in buttons (large circular button at venetian; all in card size of poker card at Aria, etc...)
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Golden Nugget used event center - same area is used to film High Stakes Poker & Poker After Dark (there's movable walls to make the room smaller).
During one of the PLO8 MTTs (second one), they sectioned the room in half for some other event (it might have been the heads up blackjack tournament)
Aria has a nice tournament area (super large room with at least 24 tables and 2 big projection screens).
Caesar's did not have a large setup for MTTs b/c they didn't get big turn out.
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For specialized tournaments (ie: non-NLHE) at the Golden Nugget, the fields seemed to be somewhat inexperienced.
This may be a byproduct of the Golden Nugget's tournament players, who maybe thought it was more of a novelty, rather than actually knowing how to play most of the games.
The LO8 tournament did seem to have a lot of "Vegas regulars" that played in it. The field seemed to be OK, mainly because the game is somewhat popular and there are regular weekly LO8 tournaments in the area.
The PLO8 MTT had a lot of specialized PLO8 players playing in them.
The stud/8 MTT had about 10-15% specialists; the rest were converted stud players that don't really understand the game.
The PLO MTT was a mixed bag...
The Aria's 8 game mix MTT's players did seem to be a bit more experienced, but it may be due to the higher buyin and that it is not downtown...
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Other Random Happenings:
plastic setup - one card got ripped in half during the shuffle
brown card was put in green setup at golden nugget
earlier, i had noticed and misread card color before, so i didn't want to point it out upon seeing it because I had been wrong before.
upon 2nd scramble of deck - i noted the color difference
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wsop dealers were treated very badly, almost "non-human"
source: VDS dealer that also worked at the wsop (he was a temp VDS dealer)
one dealer was quietly trying to rack up smaller chips for color up
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