Travelling Cross Country via Poker Rooms

[CEE]

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Add Turtle Lake, WI to the Northern Route.

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Why the hell would someone from Atlanta drive to Wisconsin just to drive back down to Vegas.

He said CROSS COUNTRY, not from bottom to top and back.

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Hey, any excuse to explore as much as possible. Real travelers never regret taking the non-direct route between one place and another.

If he didn't want side trips, he'd just take a left on I-20 and be there in about 24 hours.

[mikehildebrand]

I like your far north route, but if you skip Jackpot, there is Wendover, NV which has 2 adequate rooms and a great room (diamond in the rough) at the Rainbow Casino, and it is JUST off of the I-80 freeway right on the border. If you come through Utah, PM me for some good local games too!

[surfinillini]

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I like your far north route, but if you skip Jackpot, there is Wendover, NV which has 2 adequate rooms and a great room (diamond in the rough) at the Rainbow Casino, and it is JUST off of the I-80 freeway right on the border. If you come through Utah, PM me for some good local games too!

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God dammit, how did I miss this one last year ?

[mikehildebrand]

Honestly, I just moved back to Utah from Phoenix, and if you'd have asked me three years ago about Poker in Wendover, I wouldn't have had any idea. Of course now, the big draw is tourney style, and the 2 adequate rooms are spreading MAINLY low spread limit games (2-5 spread), but on a weekend, the whole town fires up and there are about 3 or 4 great 2-5 NL games in all rooms, but the Rainbow really stands out. I play there, but it is a 110 mile commute for me and really eats into my BB/hr... I need to move to Vegas!
Next time you are out this way, let me know.

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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.

If you come through the south, then Sandia in Albuquerque has some great games. Plus they are opening the hotel up on 1 Dec. Suppose to be very nice

[mikehildebrand]

Agree, the Sandia is great and great management. If you go that route, stop by the Casino Arizona in Scottsdale Arizona for some ACTION, or go play one of the $30 tourneys at Fort McDowell in Scottsdale. Great games in both.

sorry, guess the link would have been helpful.
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-room/

Tunica is cool to stop and play poker. You can get a low priced hotel room poker rate there for $25-30 at the Horseshoe and Goldstrike and the Strike comped me a few free buffets and I got the poker rate after playing overnight.

[Phix]

I am planning the same kind of trip. But will be traveling along I80. I found this link that list casinos by state.

http://us.casinocity.com/

Good Luck
Phix