Does New Orleans have any other good poker rooms besides Harrah's?

[LittleOldLady]

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While I also doubt that the person was being serious, I have to wonder if you actually live in NO? Practically everyone here has a basement.

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Do YOU actually live in New Orleans? You realize we're talking about the one in Louisiana. Those houses with the front entry door on the 2nd floor (like this) don't count as having basements, BTW.

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Actually those are called basements, but they are above ground, and the main living quarters are on what would be called the second floor in most of the US and the first floor in much of Europe. But as far as practically everyone in NO having a 'basement', absolutely no way. Many of the houses are raised with a crawl space underneath, but a crawl space is not a basement. In the newer neighborhoods most of the houses are built on slabs supported by pilings--mine is.

I myself had a good laugh with that "knock three times and ask for Joe" business. New Orleans is a city where the locations of brothels, dungeons, crackhouses, and other dens of corruption and iniquity are known even to little old ladies. In spite of some overzealous law enforcement out in Acadiana. it is as legal in Louisiana for people to play poker in a bar as it is to play pool--as long as the bar doesn't take a cut. If Las Vegas is Gomorrah, New Orleans is Sodom, and no one much cares except a few bullhorn-waving evangelists annoying people in the Quarter during Carnival and Southern Decadence.

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[wstaffor]

Yes, I do live in New Orleans, going on 3 years now. Maybe I just limit myself to Uptown too much, but pretty much every house I've ever been in here has a basement. Probably because they're all ~100 years old. I'm talking real basements, not the first floor/basement thing like you said, though those are fairly common as well. I've actually always thought it was strange that so many houses here had basements, considering the city is below sea level.

[LittleOldLady]

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Yes, I do live in New Orleans, going on 3 years now. Maybe I just limit myself to Uptown too much, but pretty much every house I've ever been in here has a basement. Probably because they're all ~100 years old. I'm talking real basements, not the first floor/basement thing like you said, though those are fairly common as well. I've actually always thought it was strange that so many houses here had basements, considering the city is below sea level.

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Not I imagine that anyone cares, but if you venture to the lakefront or to the vast stretch of New Orleans East, you will see that the norm is slab-built homes. Also the city as a whole is not below sea level. Parts of the city are above sea level. The elevation (or lack thereof) ranges from about 6-8 feet below sea level to 6-8 feet above level. When the storms come the difference is significant. It is also not true that New Orleans's famous above-ground tombs exist because the city is below sea level. In fact there are cemeteries with in-ground burials. The tombs derive from traditional burial practices in the Mediterranean countries. Ancient Rome, for example, was surrounded by extensive necropolises featuring the same kind of house-shaped tombs found in New Orleans.

Not that this has anything to do with a trip to Harrah's NO to play poker....

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[feelixthegreek]

We're below sea level. I have never been in a home with a basement in the 10 years I've lived here.

[feelixthegreek]

Harrah's has a tunnel entrance from the parking lot to the casino.

How's that for bridging the discussion?

[va_chier]

new orleans is shaped like a bowl. The highest point, at the base of the levies, is at about 10 feet above sea level. At 1/4 mile from the river is at sea level and the lowest point is at city park and st.john bayou which is about 10 to 12 foot below. If a cat 5 storm would hit the city, the storm surge would fill the city up with water to the top of the lake levy about 12 foot above sea level.
The first french settlers buried their dead below ground but because of floods they went to the spanish tradition.

[LittleOldLady]

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new orleans is shaped like a bowl. The highest point, at the base of the levies, is at sea level. The lowest point is at city park and st.john bayou which is about 10 to 12 foot below. If a cat 5 storm would hit the city, the storm surge would fill the city up with water to the top of the lake levy about 12 foot above sea level.
The first french settlers buried their dead below ground but because of floods they went to the spanish tradition.

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Yes, New Orleans is a bowl, and the bottom of the bowl is in Broadmoor uptown (roughly 8 feet below sea level), not at City Park and Bayou St. John. The highest points are on Gentilly and Esplanade ridges and the natural levees along the river, about 8 feet above sea level. My house is 1 foot below sea level which is relatively high but not high enough. I am just a short distance inland from the original shore of Lake Pontchartrain (not the current shore), part way up the natural levee that formed along the original lakeshore. When the streets flood, the upward slope is definitely noticeable. But Gentilly Ridge, nearby, is even higher than the original lake shore.

If a storm pushes Lake Pontchartrain over the levees, worst case the water could cover a three-story building (depending on where that building is located). Once the water overtops the levee and fills the bowl, the levees would have to be breeched and the water pumped out (in fact every drop of rain that falls has to be pumped out of the city)--the city would be devastated.

Obligatory poker content, if there is a storm in the Gulf headed our way and you were planning to come to New Orleans to play poker, don't come..........

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[feelixthegreek]

Last year when we had to evacuate New Orleans, I headed to Shreveport. Evacuations lead to soft games.

We're safe in May, just the occasional garden variety flooding.

[Guyon]

Here's the breakdown for casino poker in NO relevant to what you are looking for:

Harrah's: 3/6, 6/12, 1-4-8-8 half holdem-half omaha, & other higher limits; 10% rake 5$ max & 1$ jackpot rake
Boomtown: 3/6, games vary; 10% rake 4$ max & 1$ jackpot

Boomtown is about 15 min from downtown NO on the opposite bank of the river in the middle of an industrial area. There's only 6 tables, and usually only a couple of games going. If you get really bored and decide to check it out, make sure you call first. However, there's enough action at Harrah's that you won't need to drive out there.

Also, I've lived in or around NO my whole life save 3 years, and I've never a true basement before. The Harrah's tunnel is the only structure I know of, and maybe a handful of subT parking lots.

Oh, and stay away from Bourbon & St. Ann lol

[LittleOldLady]

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We're safe in May, just the occasional garden variety flooding.

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Then how come my house and tens of thousands of other structures were destroyed on May 8, 1995??? Not exactly garden variety in my view.......

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