We visited the first incarnation of One-Eyed Jack’s poker room back on our Tampa Bay vacation in February 2020. At that time, One-Eyed Jack’s was housed in the old Sarasota Kennel Club. And when we say old, we mean OLD. The facility was run down, dingy, and smelled of mold. It was dark, with low…
BestBet Orange Park is one of three BestBet properties in northeastern Florida. We previously reviewed BestBet Jacksonville, and BestBet St. Augustine. BestBet Orange Park is the oldest of the three properties, and is really showing its age. One of many Florida poker rooms that started life as a race track, Orange Park still hosts an…
BestBet St. Augustine is one of three BestBet properties in northeastern Florida. We previously reviewed BestBet Jacksonville, and have also visited BestBet Orange Park recently (review to come). BestBet St. Augustine is the newest of the three properties, having just opened at the end of 2022. As such, it’s clean, shiny, and attractive inside and…
More than five years ago, Paul and I created PokerPilgrims to detail our hopes and dreams as we planned for a year-long poker pilgrimage. While we were both poker players at that time, work and family obligations limited our travel time and our ability to play poker outside our home region of New England. We…
We have recently begun sharing information on our various poker road trips. In 2021 we took a poker road trip to Las Vegas, and then we built another poker road trip through Florida, which we will be partially revisiting this winter. Recently we shared our poker road trip through Maryland. Living in central New England,…
Poker Pilgrims is happy to continue our Cash Poker Table Activity analysis. We recently completed collecting data on cash poker table activity in Texas. This was our final region requiring collection. So we now have coverage of cash poker activity throughout the United States. Our page with Texas cash poker activity is now live. Our…
We first visited Encore Boston Harbor poker room in 2019 shortly after it opened. At the time it boasted 72 poker tables, had a booming cash room, and ran regular tournaments. There were a few hitches from the start: long wait times to play, controversy and changing policies over the cost of the parking garage,…
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