The Big Game refers to a famous high-stakes poker ring game played in "Bobby's Room", a cardroom named after Bobby Baldwin, at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1] The table features no-limit and pot-limit games with wagers up to $100,000 per hand.[1] Limit games as high as $4,000/$8,000 are often played but $2,000/$4,000 is normal.[1]
The table features a variety of poker games played in rotation and changing every 8–10 hands. The games are selected from a list of the players' choices, including:[1]
Usually players buy in for $200,000–300,000, but anyone with the minimum buy in of $80,000 is welcome to play.[1]
In addition to the occasional drop-in player, the following players have been known to play regularly in the Big Game over the years:
The "big game" is also often used to describe the largest game being played in any casino or city at that moment.