Reviews of poker rooms across the country
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…
Live! Casino Philadelphia poker room had us very excited given our excellent experience at its sister site in Maryland. We also had a very positive experience at Rivers Casino Philadelphia the day before. On the Monday morning that we dropped in for a bounty tournament, expectations were running high. Unfortunately, our experience did not meet…
The Rivers Casino Philadelphia poker room is one of three large rooms in the Philadelphia area. We were in Philadelphia for a few days recently and decide to play a Sunday morning/afternoon tournament at Rivers. The casino was a bit of a mystery to us. They consistently get several tables of low-stakes cash games and…
On our return trip from Maryland to Massachusetts recently, we decided to circumvent our normal 95/New Jersey Turnpike route and instead drove inland on a less trafficky path. In doing so it just so happened that, the Wind Creek Bethlehem poker room came into our sights. Just a quick stop off Route 78 past Allentown,…
The Hollywood Casino Perryville poker room is a small poker room without the profile of other Maryland rooms such as Maryland Live! or MGM National Harbor. However, Perryville had an intriguing Sunday tournament (30-minute blinds!) when we were staying around Baltimore. So we headed up the road about an hour north of Baltimore to check…
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,…
The Horseshoe Baltimore poker room is not as highly publicized as its neighbor 15 minutes south, Maryland Live! and it doesn’t have the buzz of the newer MGM Grand National Harbor. But Horseshoe’s status as a “downtown” casino, with access to other activities of a major city, was intriguing. Given the good value tournaments scheduled…