Tunica Question

Rooster71 · #1 01-01-2005, 03:30 AM

I am planning on making my first trip to Tunica within the next month or so. I am thinking about making the trip sometime between Jan 15th and 25th. With the WPO, I am curious about room availability and whether or not the poker rates are still available anywhere during that time. Any ideas? Will most places have extremely long waiting lists for 3/6, 4/8 and/or 5/10 tables? Any places where the games are less soft that I may want to avoid? Sorry for the stupid questions, but I'm a total newbie to the Tunica scene.

bigfishead · #2 01-01-2005, 06:08 AM

forget getting a room at the Horseshoe or Gold Strike during that time period. Sold out.

Nobody plays 5-10. it's 3-6 or 4-8...and all lists up to 30-60 will be very long at both rooms. Except during the wee hours of the morning.....As for action? You dont have to worry about that. There will be plenty of great games.

DrewOnTilt · #3 01-01-2005, 05:03 PM

Play at the Horeshoe if you are looking for 4-8. The lists will be long but it moves fairly quickly.

Sam's Town also has a decent 4-8 game, although it is a smaller room and doesn't always have more than 1 full game going. The atmosphere is more laid back than at the Shoe.

The Gold Strike has an okay 3-6 game, although I don't have much playing time there.

Personally I disliked the Grand, since their cardroom managers blew several obvious rulings while I was there. It does have a number of weekly low buy-in tourneys, though.

Hollywood is a joke. 1 3-6 game most of the time.
The Shoe 4-8 games are good. Plenty of tourists just asking for their money to be taken.

MicroBob · #4 01-01-2005, 05:16 PM

I think there will generally be more action at Sam's town and the Grand during the January tournaments.

There are so many poker players running around all over Tunica that some of the extra players should spill-over to other places when the wait-lists at the Shoe (and maybe at the Gold Strike) get really long during the prime-hours.

Regarding getting a room. You may want to try the Grand as a previous poster was able to get a room there when the H.S. and Gold Strike were sold out.
Or you can try at some of the other casino/hotels in the area....but I wouldn't be too confident about your chances of getting a cheapo poker-player discount room-rate or anything like that at the Grand or anywhere else.

On another note - Does anyone here think we have too many Tunica threads going?? I hate feeling like we are taking over the B&M forum.
Tunica is the only place I play and even I think we have too many of these things going.

Nobody's fault specifically of course. And I guess there is naturally going to be added chat about it because more people are coming in for the WPO.

Randy_Refeld · #5 01-01-2005, 05:36 PM

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Personally I disliked the Grand, since their cardroom managers blew several obvious rulings while I was there. It does have a number of weekly low buy-in tourneys, though.

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This is what happens when you have a room where the staff is unfamiliar with poker, how it is played, what the rules are, and what procedures should be in place to protect the integrity of the game.

Randy Refeld

Big Business · #6 01-01-2005, 06:24 PM

Last time I played at the Grand I sat down in a 10-20 game and two people were openly colluding and isolating. After about 30 minutes I had enough and said something and the floor said there was nothing they could do about...lol.

I like Gold Strike and Sams Town for 4-8 and Gold Strike had a 1-2 NL Game that looked like it had some deep stacks if you are into that.

I love Tunica.

Randy_Refeld · #7 01-01-2005, 07:33 PM

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Last time I played at the Grand I sat down in a 10-20 game and two people were openly colluding and isolating. After about 30 minutes I had enough and said something and the floor said there was nothing they could do about...lol.

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They are totally clueless. I feel bad for anyone that plays the tournamnets there in Jan.

Randy Refeld

wray · #8 01-02-2005, 10:46 AM

I guess I've been very lucky at the Grand. I havn't had any problems so far. Duringthe month of January (like the others said) Gold Strike and Horseshoe are spilling over with action. The only other places are Sam's Town, The Grand and Hollywood. Sam's Town is pretty cool but small. I kind of like the Grand and the Hollywood is a complete joke. IMHO