Travelling Cross Country via Poker Rooms
 

I am going to be driving from Atlanta to Las Vegas in the near future. Instead of driving 10-14 hours a day and staying in flea bag hotels, etc. I was thinking I could hop from poker room to poker room and "play" my way across the country. I know that Tunica is a nice 7 hour drive from my house. So starting in Tunica going to Las Vegas, what Poker rooms would you hit up that are 6-8 hour drives apart, give or take.

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Why would you want to do this? I think it would be easier/cheaper to fly to vegas and play all the poker you want.

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Why would you want to do this? I think it would be easier/cheaper to fly to vegas and play all the poker you want.

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perhaps he's staying on the west coast for an extended period of time.

this doesn't sound like he just wants to go play poker in vegas.

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FWIW I did more or less the same last fall, going on an extended road trip from Boston to California and back. In my case the motive was to visit friends and other contacts along the way; playing certainly played a big part in my routing, but it wasn't the only thing i did.

I don't know what i can say/do to help you, but here's a rough itinerary for you off the top of my head:

NORTHERN ROUTE
Tunica
St. Louis
Kansas City

[Option 1: Harrah's Praire Band, near Topeka, KS]

[Option 2: Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha)
Now you've got a bit of a gap without getting outrageously north
Deadwood, SD]

Colorado
Vegas

SOUTHERN ROUTE
Tunica
Shreveport
Oklahoma (several new ones)
little bit of a gap
Albuquerque (Sandia is quite nice)
Vegas

Keep us posted! Maybe blog from the road or something?

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Why would you want to do this? I think it would be easier/cheaper to fly to vegas and play all the poker you want.

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Can't see the fun in taking a road trip, seeing new places, meeting new people? So sad.

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Instead of driving 10-14 hours a day and staying in flea bag hotels, etc. I was thinking I could hop from poker room to poker room and "play" my way across the country.

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If your goal is to not stay in flea bag hotels, I don't think staying at casinos is the logical alternative. Why not just stay in nice hotels? If you plan on hitting a casino every night, you're going to be adding a lot of extra time to your trip. Despite their ubiquity, it's not like there is one off every interstate. You're going to be tacking a lot of time onto your driving to get to some of these places.

Not to be too critical, but I'm just questioning your logic. It sounds like you do not want to stay at cheap hotels, and your conclusion is that to avoid doing this you should stay at casinos and play poker. I don't really see the link there.

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Why would you want to do this? I think it would be easier/cheaper to fly to vegas and play all the poker you want.

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Can't see the fun in taking a road trip, seeing new places, meeting new people? So sad.

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None of this was reflected in the original post. That's why I asked.

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If you are going to stop in LV, might as well stop in Phoenix as it is about 6-7 hours drive from LV. Casino Arizona is the main room here with tons of tables and games spread except NL.

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Oklahoma (several new ones)
little bit of a gap
Albuquerque (Sandia is quite nice)


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I think you need to decid in Oklahoma whether to head for NM or CO. The disadvantage to CO is that you're stuck going through Utah, where you wont find action, whereas if you go through NM/AZ, you can play when you cross into Southern NV.

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Dang, you might as well have asked your parents, with some of these answers. Sounds cool to me, go for it.