Big Game (poker)

This article is about a well known cash game in Las Vegas. For the television program of the same name sponsored by PokerStars, see PokerStars Big Game.

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.[1] The table features no-limit and pot-limit games with wagers up to $100,000 per hand.[2] Limit games as high as $4,000/$8,000 are often played but $800/$1,600 is normal.[3][4]

  1. ^ Elissa Harwood (2010-09-02). "The New Big Game: $200/$400 Mixed Heats Up Aria's Ivey Room". PokerNews. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
  2. ^ Dan Michalski (2004). "RISK: The Biggest Game Ever". dmagazine.com. Retrieved 2014-12-23.
  3. ^ Sam Farha; Storms Reback (1 October 2007). Farha on Omaha: Expert Strategy for Beating Cash Games and Tournaments. Triumph Books. pp. 74–. ISBN 978-1-61749-920-3.
  4. ^ Des Wilson (2009). Ghosts at the Table: Riverboat Gamblers, Texas Rounders, Roadside Hucksters, and the Living Legends Who Made Poker What it is Today. Da Capo Press, Incorporated. pp. 269–. ISBN 978-0-7867-3205-0.