The opening of the MGM Springfield in August 2018 brought in the era of full-scale casinos in Massachusetts. It beat the highly anticipated Encore Boston Harbor’s opening by a full year. MGM Springfield and Encore became Massachusett’s answer to the Connecticut poker scene, represented by Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, and the many small venues in…
We have played at some poker rooms in the middle of nowhere before (see Creek Entertainment Gretna or the Ebro Poker Room). But I don’t think we’ve ever played at a room as remote as the Northwoods Casino in Berlin, New Hampshire. Berlin is waaaaaay in the north of the state, closer to Canada than…
A drive down Florida’s east coast provides not only a plethora of beaches, but also frequent opportunities to play poker. About halfway down the state, not too far from Cape Canaveral, you will find one such opportunity: the Club 52 poker room in Melbourne. We were intrigued with Club 52, because while not one of…
We spent much of the month of February this year in Florida checking out a variety of poker rooms. We visited the Orange City Poker Room (officially the Orange City Racing and Card Club) on our drive between St. Augustine and Tampa. While we only stopped in briefly to play some cash poker, we found…
On our recent trip to Florida we finally had a chance to visit one of the poker rooms that has long loomed large in our imaginations. The Palm Beach Kennel Club was everything we thought it would be – and more. The PBKC offers an extremely active poker room in an attractive setting, a healthy…
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…