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.