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The Big Game refers to a famous high-stakes poker
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Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games diffe






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The Big Game refers to a famous high-stakes poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
 ring game
Ring game

Ring games, also called cash games or live action games, are poker games played with "real" Poker chip and money at stake, usually with no predetermined end time, with players able to enter and leave as they see fit....
 played in "Bobby's Room", a cardroom
Cardroom

A cardroom is a gambling establishment that exclusively offers card games for play by the public. The term poker room is generally synonymous, since the gambling games played in such establishments are typically, and sometimes exclusively, variations of poker such as Texas hold 'em....
 named after Bobby Baldwin
Bobby Baldwin

Bobby Baldwin is a professional poker player and casino executive.When Baldwin won the 1978 World Series of Poker main event he became the youngest winner in its history, to be superseded by Stu Ungar in 1980 and then Phil Hellmuth in 1989 and Peter Eastgate in 2008....
, at the Bellagio casino
Bellagio (hotel and casino)

Bellagio is an American Automobile Association Five-Diamond, Mobil Five-Star rated luxury hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in the Paradise, Nevada area of unincorporated area Clark County, Nevada, Nevada, United States....
 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
. The table features no-limit and pot-limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 games with wagers up to $
United States dollar

The United States dollar is the unit of currency of the United States and was defined by the Coinage Act of 1792 to be between 371 and 416 grains of silver ....
100,000 per hand. Limit games as high as $4000/$8000 are often played but $2000/$4000 is normal.

The table features a variety of poker games
List of poker variants

The card game of poker has many variations, most of them created in the United States in the mid-1900s. The standard Poker#Game play applies to most of these games, but to fully specify a poker game requires details about which Rank of hands are used, the number of Betting rounds, and exactly what cards are dealt and what other actio...
 played in rotation and changing every 8–10 hands. The games are selected from a list of the players' choices, including:

  • Texas hold 'em
    Texas hold 'em

    Texas hold 'em is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe, as well as online poker. According to Doyle Brunson and Johnny Moss, it was originally considered a variation of seven card stud, and was called "Texas hold 'em seven card stud" back in the 1920's....
     (limit and no limit)
  • Seven-card stud
    Seven-card stud

    Seven-card stud is a List of poker variants of stud poker. Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country....
     (straight high, eight or better Hi/Lo (also Hi/Lo regular, which does not have an 8 high requirement for a low hand), limit)
  • Omaha
    Omaha hold 'em

    Omaha hold 'em is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold 'em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make his best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards....
     (straight high, eight or better Hi/Lo, limit and pot limit)
  • Deuce-to-seven triple draw
    Draw poker

    Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing, or "drawing", cards....
     (limit)
  • Deuce-to-seven single draw
    Draw poker

    Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing, or "drawing", cards....
     (no limit)
  • Ace-to-Five triple draw
    Draw poker

    Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing, or "drawing", cards....
     (limit)
  • Ace-to-Five single draw
    Draw poker

    Draw poker is any poker variant in which each player is dealt a complete hand before the first betting round, and then develops the hand for later rounds by replacing, or "drawing", cards....
     (no limit)
  • Razz
    Razz (poker)

    Razz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low . The object of Razz is to make the lowest five-card possible hand from the seven cards you are dealt....
     (limit)


Usually players buy in for $200,000–300,000, but anyone with the minimum buy in of $80,000 is welcome to play.