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Old 08-17-2005, 02:22 PM
MicroBob MicroBob is offline
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His name isn't Bob....but Patrick is more qualified to answer.
I live in Memphis which is about 6 hours away.
Get down there 3 or 4 times a year I guess...but since I go with my GF I usually don't play any poker. There's too much other stuff to do in New Orleans.

But when I have played there I have been up against some of the drunkest tourist/donks ever to play.

If you swing up to the Memphis/Tunica area though you'll probably dig the poker action. Not quite as 'touristy' but the players are fishy enough at all limits (up to the insane 20/40 game at the Horseshoe) to keep a good 2+2 TAG happy (or even a mediocre one like me).


And I imagine you would be VERY confused by their willingness to just throw comps at you.
But northerners/midwesterners like myself do stick out as foreigners in 'theez here parts'.
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Old 08-17-2005, 02:30 PM
Patrick del Poker Grande Patrick del Poker Grande is offline
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But when I have played there I have been up against some of the drunkest tourist/donks ever to play.

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I forgot to mention this. These kinds of statements get thrown around too liberally - everybody's always going on and on about how fishy this or that game was. At Harrah's New Orleans, though, it's absolutely true. The casino is sandwiched between the French Quarter and the largest convention center in the nation. It's tourist central and the games are total donkfests. This is great, but I've also never had such wild variance in a game in my life as the three months this spring that I spent playing 6/12 and 10/20 nearly every night at this casino. It nearly drove me nuts.
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Old 08-17-2005, 02:38 PM
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a couple years ago sopme guy posted a conversation he overheard at the Cafe Du Monde (famous coffee-shop in the French Q. probably 10-20 minute walk from Harrah's and the Convention Center).

Two obvious out-of-town conventioneers are chatting..

one guy tells the other: have you been to the casino yet? I was thinking of heading over there to play some poker.

second guy: poker huh? do they have Texas Hold-em?

first guy: yeah. I think so. I'd like to try it. It looks pretty easy to me.

second guy: I've seen it on TV and I KNOW I could play better than those guys do. It looks like fun. Lets head over there.


Evidently the guy who overheard the conversation had already promised his wife that he wouldn't spend their trip at the casino. She had to practically strap him down in the chair to keep him from following.



Indeed Patrick is correct.
The number of first-timers and totally clueless tourists/conventioneers at these games in New Orleans is sometimes just not to be believed.
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Old 08-17-2005, 02:42 PM
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There's too much other stuff to do in New Orleans.

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For example...my GF and I will probably next head down there for my birthday (Oct 29) and Halloween.
and I'll be damned if I'm going to spend Halloween cooped-up in some casino/poker-room because Halloween in new Orleans is just too damned fun to miss.


Last time we were there was for her birthday (May 1) which coincided with New Orleans jazz-fest. No casino-time during that weekend either.
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Old 08-17-2005, 02:51 PM
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If I'm there it'll be for Jazzfest.
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Old 08-17-2005, 03:00 PM
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Hold'em spreads at 3/6, 6/12, 10/20, 20/40 and rarely a 40/80 (during the WSOP Circuit).

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They usually have only 1 10/20 game going and on weekends sometimes it gets bumped up to a 15/30. I think that we got a 20/40 game going once while I was there. So don't expect any real mid-limit games.

And yes the games are wicked soft.
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Old 08-17-2005, 03:01 PM
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the festival itself at the fairgronds kind of sucked in our opinion.
big and crowded and long-lines for porta-johns, etc.

She's a big Dave Matthews Band (in spite of me informing her how mediocre they are) so we went to see them. but the speakers were bad...we were about mid-way up a sfar as the crowd goes (not in the back in other words) and everyone was leaving after 20-30 minutes because we couldn't hear them hardly at all. These are people who had gotten there over 2 hours early to get a decent seat.
Very disappointing.

However..as we were walking out we could hear Elvis Costello from his stage from over a mile away.


However, Frenchman street (just off the French Quarter) was a ton of fun.
A handful of small clubs with really good jazz.
Far more of a locals-scene than a tourist-hangout. You might dig it over there.

A couple of the clubs had live bands from 9p-6a or something insane like that.

Bourbon Street is fun too if one is in the mood for that kind of scene.

If we go back again we might skip the fairgrounds (but sometimes the artists are too good to pass up for one or the other of us...she was disappointed to learn that just a couple days earlier they had a latino-music day with some of her favorite artists...people like Juanes and Julietta Vanegas whom I had never heard of)
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Old 08-17-2005, 03:05 PM
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But when I have played there I have been up against some of the drunkest tourist/donks ever to play.

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Now this is what I like to hear.
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But northerners/midwesterners like myself do stick out as foreigners in 'theez here parts'.

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I stand out like a sore thumb regardless of where I'm at, but I have noticed that in my trips to the south anytime I look around I just see heads turning the other way... should be real interesting this week especially since my face is all cut up from being a drunken donkey last night.

Oh, before I forget, thanks for all the info, guys.
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Old 08-17-2005, 03:53 PM
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When I was dealing BJ in Tunica my players would hear me welcome them to the game or something and then Jim-Joe or Earl or Clint or whoever it was from Arkansas or Mississippi was playing at my game would observe something profound such as:

'Yew ain't frum arowwnd heere...R yew Baawwwwwwwwb.'
Or something like that.


I have since learned that it is not the greatest of situations to be working with drunken customers while wearing a name-tag that says "Bob".

Because I think eveyone on the planet likes saying it over and over when they're drunk. It's fun (evidently)!!
Especially if they tack on a "What about" along with the "Bob".
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Old 08-18-2005, 01:25 PM
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If we go back again we might skip the fairgrounds

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The food at JazzFest is entirely too tasty to skip.
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