Of the 3 Casino's in the Cincinnati Area, Argosy doesn't as of yet (though there is talk) have a poker room. The Casino itself is okay, but they don't try very hard. Their current slogan says it all: "We are the Closest".

Grand Vic's ... small ... and it sucks IMO. They don't treat the players very well AT all. Up until Belterra opened their room, they also charged you in addition to the rake, a fee per hour to play at their tables.

Also, if you get below 20 bucks and have NO more money left ... they make you leave the table to make room for another player, which means, you can't try to get your stake back, if you have a run of bad luck, and get down to the felt.

Belterra .. the BEST casino in the area, BAR none. It's always been a wonderful Casino, if for no other reason, is that they are the furthest from Cincinnati, and about 60 miles from Louisville, Ky.

Thus they have to try harder than the rest of the Casino's in the area.

Their Poker room is NO exception to this fact. They have 12 tables, and spread a multitude of games and levels of action. You sometimes have to wait a while for a table, but it's well worth the wait.

They are a class act Casino, and the same could be said for their poker room as well.

Last but not least, if you want to drive to it ... Caesars Indiana, around Louisville, Ky (about 20 miles from downtown Louisville).

It's an okay Casino, and their room is pretty good as well. It's much larger than any of the other's in the region, and the just expanded it as part of the WSOP circuit event.

For the 2005 LIPSTour WSOP Circuit Event we had 327 women show up to play in this No rebuy, NL event, which shocked the hell out of TPTB, since they have a hard time getting women to show up in their monthly rebuy ladies events (main reason IMO is, they are REBUYS ... and we women HATE rebuy events).

Also, in Ohio ... Charity poker is legal as well. It's called Las Vegas night, and if you check out the local paper, or places like CinWeekly.com for Festivals, you can usually find a game.

There is also a few other orginizations as well, that put on Charity events, that have tournaments for large prizes, and live action play.

They are normally ran out of the Dayton, Ohio area and they are:

Dayton Charity Poker

Which they will spread any game that they get a table filled with, but mostly they play 3/6 hold 'em.

and

Reeces Charity Events

which run MAJOR big time tournaments, and spread a LOT of different types of games and levels at there events.

In fact, for the next two weeks, Reeces is running an event called OHIO TEXAS HOLDEM CHAMPIONSHIP DERBY event #3.

Click on the links for the details.

The way they run this one, is that they have one main event where you can win 10k for the grand prize, that is on Each Sunday night of that week they are running the event. The other nights, they run qualifier satelites to get into the Main event.

Max number of players is between 270 and 300 players, as the top 30 from each satelite session, qualify for the main event.

Hope that helps!

FYI ... The Reeces events will also be having on Friday Nights, Ladies night, where the women CAN play in a seperate event, and the men (and any woman who wants to) play in a different one.

I'll be playing this Friday at the Reeces event myself, most likely in the Ladies event, since there are fewer players in that one.