This is a bit long for a Yelp review so I'll put the juicy bit up front: 4 stars to the Rio for keepin it sexy, with the naughty cocktail waitress outfits, the newly revamped and more sexy carnival show, and for the ladies a lot of cameo appearances by Chippendales dancers.  There is always something to see here.\n\n\n* * * * * \n\nOk so now the dull part:\n\nAbout the poker room here.  It's a small room that was renovated a year or two ago, clean and well run.  The WSOP in the Rio convention center obviously overshadows it, but there is some good spillover into the cash games here late at night.  There were about ten full tables of no limit (1/3 and 2/5) going at midnight.  Not as much drinking going on as I would have liked.  \n\nHere is a hand I played last night, sorry that this is a bit long, it's from a report I did for a poker site I post at, but it may give other players some idea of the action to be had here when the wsop is in town:\n\nThe 2/5 no limit was a very tight aggressive table with a lot of tough players. Average stack was about $1000 with two guys well above that. I sat down with $500 and limped in to a few hands, not hitting much, mostly just observing these guys. I picked up 9d8d on the button and limped in for $20 with 3 other players. The flop was 10d8c8s, which I very much liked. The first player to act thought he'd take down the pot nice and quick with a $40 bet. \n\nAs I was thinking of how much to raise him the player immediately to my right, the big stack at the table raised it to $80. That surprised me. I honestly had no idea what to think about that. He had a lot of chips so it was very possible he was making a move. After due consideration I called his bet with the hope of improvement in my hand in the form of a runner runner flush draw or straight possibilities. \n\nThe initial raiser mucked quickly and the turn was the Q of h. Big Stack looks at it for a lil bit and bets $200. It didn't take him very long to bet. \n\nA problem I had with this hand is I hadn't been at the table very long and didn't know enough about how these guys played. I should not have gotten involved in a big hand this early, since it was possible this guy only bet monsters. But as the big stack I assumed he was pushing people around a lot, and I was not going to call away half my stack at this point, and I did have the inside straight draw. So I went all in for $400 on top of his bet. \n\nObviously at this point I was also hoping that my trips were good. \n\nThey were not. He called and flipped over Jx8x for the better kicker. I had ignored all of the signs that this guy was very strong and followed my trips into quite the trap. I knew he was strong but could not lay down my hand. The river was the lovely Ace of Spades and so the kicker issue became irrelevant and we split the pot. \n\nI am including this in this thread which started with me whining about flopping a big straight and being run down by a lucky caller, to show that luck can come full circle I suppose. Nice to be the one sucking out on this one. \n\nLast comment, now that I think about it, the thing that really bothered me about Big Stack betting big was there was no flush or straight draw for him to be betting, and he seemed like the type of player that would do that. Which led me to think he had the other 8. And a better kicker. Which he did. And I called anyway like a fish, lol. And then got lucky.  Ah poker.