If you’re on a budget and you want to concentrate on poker, dumping a bunch of your bankroll on hotel rooms is not the best way to spend your poker vacation.

In Atlantic City, the Tropicana has $79 rooms and tons of poker tournaments. The Trump Marina has $59 rooms on Monday and $89 rooms for the rest of the week. They have a poker room on the second floor, across from the House of Blues, that has lots of weekend traffic.

In Vegas, the early-week rates are less than a half (or even a quarter) of what they will be on the weekends. There are lots of cheap hotels downtown, like the Golden Nugget and Binion’s, which have great poker rooms.

A room on the Strip will cost you the most, but Planet Hollywood offers good deals on rooms. Places like the Rio, off the Strip, are often a cheaper option.

1. The Bellagio is the home of poker and has any game at any limit, plus “Bobby’s Room”.

2. The Wynn is a new room that will also set up any game you want to play.

3. Caesars has an 8500 sq/ft main poker room and a 6000 sq/ft tournament room.

4. The Mirage has 30 tables with mostly hold’em action. Omaha and & 7-stud is limited.

5. MGM Grand poker has lots of tables and 22 of them are non-smoking.

6. The Venetian room is located right off the main entrance and has 39 tables.

7. Binions poker room is an historical landmark with over 70 tables.

8. Rio poker room is not the massive room we see at the WSOP, but it’s still a good room.

9. The Orleans poker room has a ton of tables and cheap tournaments.

10. The Palms has 10 tables in two different rooms.