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Las Vegas (aka Vegas) Golf Side Betting Game
Vegas is a betting game for two teams of two players each. Winnings and losings can add up quickly in Vegas, so it's a game preferred by better and evenly matched players.

In Vegas, each 2-person team plays for a team score on each hole. But it's not a normal team score. The team members' scores are not combined; rather, they are paired: Player A gets a 4, Player B gets a 5. The team score is not 9, it's 45 (the lower number goes first).

If both players get 4s, that's 44; if one gets an 8 and the other gets a 3, that's 38.

The team score represents the number of points each team earns per hole. Points are tracked throughout the round and the differential is paid off at the end of the round. A single-hole example: Team A scores 4 and 5 for a 45; Team B scores 5 and 6 for a 56; the difference is 11 points.

Points can be worth any amount. Low-rollers should only play for nickels and dimes. Vegas can be played for a dollar per point, and it adds up quickly at that level.

If you can make some birdies the money can really start to change hands. A team that makes a birdie and wins the hole can flip the other team's score for that hole. So instead of the low number going first, the high number goes first. The opponent's 5 and 6 wouldn't be 56, but 65.

Generally players are paired together for 6 holes then rotate partners, this allows each player to be partnered with every other player throughout the round and prevents one player having a bad day from bringing down his partner for 18 holes.

Variations

Left/Right Vegas, instead of pairing partners in some predetermined manor the partners are determined after all players have hit their tee shots. The two balls farthest to the left are paired against the two balls farthest to the right. After being paired it is played just as regular Vegas for that hole, on the next hole partners are again determined after drives have been hit. This variation has lead to the development of the Kreiser/Warmkessel Theorem. Simply put this theorem states that as the last man hitting off the tee you can never be paired with the middle of the three tee shots already hit.

--Wsahaydak (talk) 17:23, 21 August 2008 (UTC)