How far do you drive to play poker?

[Moyer]

And how often do you make the trip?

I'm thinking about visiting some further away casinos and I'm sort of wondering if this can be profitable or if I should just think of it as a vacation.

[Dynasty]

Drive? Are you saying you don't have more than twenty casinos within walking distance?

[Moyer]

Well, I could be a dick and say that I'd never want to live that close to 20 big casinos...

But that would be a dirty lie.

[Gahnia radula]

half an hour

twice a week

[RollaJ]

2 1/2 hours once a week (Im a little sick /images/graemlins/tongue.gif) and I play about 12 hours ( But hey it pays well /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[AwesomeAli]

1hr 10 mins cross country, 4 times a week.

The drive home at 4am is the worst thing about it. The multiple cans of RedBull help keep me awake tho /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Ali

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

45 minutes each way to Foxwoods. Used to do it once or twice per week, but since Mohegan closed I've been going about once every other week.

[squiffy]

I work in downtown about a 15 minute drive from my home. Across the street from where I work, about a two-minute walk, is a small local card-club, very tiny, with about 30-40 tables. If I want I can eat lunch there and play for an hour or two every day. But there are usually only 1 or 2 tables at each limit up to $6 -$12 or so. Not much variety.

When I lived in LA I could drive to a huge cardclub, usually 15-30 minutes away. That was nice, but back then I didn't know as much about playing poker and was losing a bit a money over the long run, now I am break even to slightly profitable and could probably do much much better.

[AcesUp]

I live in CA now, so it's only 5-10 minutes to various clubs.

But, back when I was in Maryland, I made the 3.5 hour trip up to Atlantic City twice a month. Leave Friday evening, get back Sunday afternoon, spend one night in a hotel.

It was profitable (if it wasn't, I wouldn't have done it).

I actually knew a bunch of people that did (and probably still do) the same thing...

[Riverman]

90 minutes each way, 3-4 times a week
And I'm in school (sort of)...

[Losing all]

8 hours to AC if traffic isn't bad in Baltimore or Delaware(HA!) 10 to Tunica, and I think it took me 35 hours to get here driving straight through from Vegas. I'll be flying back.

[chesspain]

2.75 hours each way to Foxwoods. I go once every six weeks. However, I am hoping that the upcoming referendum in ME passes to let some tribe build a casino in Sanford, ME, which is less than forty minutes from me /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Zez]

Usually 1.5 hour each way to Spirit Mountain once a week. Possibly supplemented with a 20 minute drive to La Center, WA if the card room's various promotions aren't making the list too long.

Just did a really long drive, 10 hours each way to Reno with fellow poster bdypdx. Had lots of fun. May post about it later.

[Derringer]

I don't drive. I fly. And as to how often, whenever I fell like it, of course. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Mike Gallo]

How far do you drive to play poker?

In the winter, 45 minutes in the summer anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half.

And how often do you make the trip?

Once or twice a week, sometimes more sometimes less.

[Joe Tall]

There is usually a home game running in my apartment every weekend, 24hrs. I don't have to go far there. I've even gone to bed a few hours got up and found 4 new faces in the game and sat back down, good times.

However, I play at Foxwoods during the week which is 55 minute drive. I've played up to 5 times in a week at 5+hr sessions.

Pays well,
JT

[Kevin J]

That's NJ drivers for ya. They go faster in snow and ice than on clear dry roads.

[RollaJ]

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That's NJ drivers for ya. They go faster in snow and ice than on clear dry roads.


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Atlantic City is on the.....Atlantic and the summer has you fighting 90 miles of "beach traffic", I cant wait for the winter /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Mike Gallo]

That's NJ drivers for ya. They go faster in snow and ice than on clear dry roads.

It has nothing to do with weather conditions, it has to do with something we call "shore" traffic. /images/graemlins/grin.gif