Halifax, Nova Scotia (Scouting Report)

[Cry Me A River]

The Halifax casino is located right on the waterfront, in the downtown area. I was there at around 5pm on the Friday of a long week-end (Monday holiday) with about a zillion tourists in town (Tall Ships docked minutes away and a province-wide Acadian festival celebrating 400 years of French settlement).

Unfortunately, the casino didn't really seem to be benefitting from all the tourists (though to be fair neither did the deli accross the street from the harbour which we stopped in for ice-cream). The casino was far from busy and is pretty small, about the size of the 1,000 Islands casino and significantly smaller than Hull or Montreal. However, unlike those casinos, the Halifax casino does have poker.

There's no actual Poker Room, mind you, just a "poker area" roped off and near other table games like Blackjack. the "poker area" consists of 4 tables, of which 2 full tables of 5/10 Hold 'em were being spread. The pit boss told me there would probably be a 10/20 and maybe a 15/30 table later in the evening.

We were only spending half a day in Halifax, so I didn't play and can't comment on the quality of the game. There are no previous posts in this forum describing the Halifax casino so I wanted to at least check things out even if only briefly. If the place had been hopping with some juicy looking lower limit tables I might have taken the time out. As it was, my slim bankroll was not enthusiastic at the likely thought of a 5/10 rock garden full of local regulars.

The habourfront itself was *packed* with people for the tall ships and the region was incredibly busy all week-end (we wound up sleeping in a college dorm room on the way home Saturday night when we couldn't get a m/hotel room in Fredricton and I wasn't up for an all-night drive the rest of the way) so its possible things improved later but I can't help but think what I saw was pretty typical evening. Might be better Friday and Saturday night, as is usually the case, but I wouldn't expect much. If you're spending time in Halifax anyway, it might be worth a look, but I
really wouldn't go out of my way. There's *plenty* better things to see and do in Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada in general.