Poker in New Orleans

[TiK]

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The food at JazzFest is entirely too tasty to skip.

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The food at New Orleans in general is too tasty to skip.

[MicroBob]

the food at jazzfest is better than what you can expect at similar type music-festivals....but it's not THAT great.
it's expensive (like typical concert-festival food) the lines are long...and occasionally it's going to be not very hot.

Additionally, there's much better food to be had elsewhere in the city.
The food at the festival isn't even a factor in considering whether or not we go again.

The music lineup and the weather are the determining factors.

[megantw]

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the food at jazzfest is better than what you can expect at similar type music-festivals....but it's not THAT great.


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I disagree. It is expensive, but undoubtedly worth it. Several vendors have specialties that are available only during the festival. Jazzfest is not the time to order a PoBoy, fried seafood, or Catfish Monica. You must order crawfish bread and crawfish strudel.

The greatness lies in the opportunity to sample goodies from about 100 local vendors at one time. The majority of the vendors are small business that take the time to take care of the small details; for example, several of them actually make the sausage that goes into the red beans and rice.

[velvetdog]

God, do I love this town: the people, the food, even the smell. I named my account after my all-time favorite dive bar (The Velvet Dog on Saint Peter in the Quarter). I've always been too busy having fun to gamble while in NO, but after reading these posts I will have to check it out when I'm there for Christmas / New Years. Thanks.

[feelixthegreek]

Harrah's has recently started a $200 max buy-in 2/5 no limit game. I have no reason to think it's any less soft than the rest of what they spread. I've yet to step in, but I watched a PF rasier bet $10 into a $120 pot on the turn, then do the same on the river. I don't think it was part of a complex strategy.

Also, they run a Sunday morning $100 buy in tournament, getting about 150 people each week.

Also, the room is going completely nonsmoking on 9/1. This makes up for the noise somewhat.

All in all, the room is improving. Patrick is right about the wild variance at 6/12 and 10/20, but I should also note that I played 6/12 10 morning/afteroons straight over the past two weeks and played with the same people nearly every day. Stick to nights and weekends.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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Patrick is right about the wild variance at 6/12 and 10/20, but I should also note that I played 6/12 10 morning/afteroons straight over the past two weeks and played with the same people nearly every day. Stick to nights and weekends.

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Yeah, the games don't really get going until after about 7pm during the week and there are a lot of locals that you'll see there all the time.

[LittleOldLady]

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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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Since one of my philosophies of life is never to go anywhere I would have to stand in line to use a porta-potty, I don't go to Jazzfest, but during Jazzfest the various clubs around town kick their bookings up several notches. So you can both listen and eat good without going anywhere near the fairgrounds.

There are also other music fests throughout the year that are neither as crowded or as expensive as Jazzfest. French Quarter Fest in the summer is free and has good music (although not the big names from out of town) and lots of food from local restaurants.

[turnipmonster]

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If I'm there it'll be for NotReallyAnyJazzfest.

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[jmr]

Was in town for business and spent about 90 minutes playing 3/6 at Harrah's. A few observations:

1. Everyone besides me and 1 other player were older (late 50's or 60's) locals - I think they were retirees that spent a part of their day playing poker.
2. Just about every hand had 6 or 7 people seeing the flop.
3. They had a promotion where if you lost with Pocket Aces, you win a rack - a guy at my table won. Pretty nice.
4. Was there around noon and there were about 5 HE games going on. By the time I left, there were probably 8 or 9 going on.
5. The dealers were very efficient. I've only played at one other casino - in LV and they were slow. These guys moved quite swiftly - almost like they had been told to keep the games moving.
6. I play at Party online - I have about 30k hands in and I have never seen a table as loose as this one.

Not sure if it's always like this, but certainly worth a visit if in the area.

[MicroBob]

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but during Jazzfest the various clubs around town kick their bookings up several notches. So you can both listen and eat good without going anywhere near the fairgrounds.

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preciseloy what our future philosophy will consist of.

Frenchman Street was really jumpin that weekend.


Other festivals are probably a good idea I suspect. But my GF's birthday is right during that time and she loves New Orleans so I suspect we'll be semi-regulars there during jazz-fest just becayse of that.