Joined: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:16 am Posts: 978 Location: Portland, OR
If you're staying downtown, there's a new casino that opened within the last year. http://www.lumiereplace.com/Poker.aspx It wasn't open the last time I was there, but I've talked to a few people who played there and thought it was a good room. Don't even think about the President's Casino (if it's still open), it's just tiny,dirty, creepy, and ugly, and those are its virtues. The players are insane, the dealers are recruited from the undead, and the smell is horrible. Really, I've played in over 100 rooms in the last five years, and there are very few I'd never revisit no matter what, this dump heads the list (Hollywood Park in LA is numbet two with a bullet, but don't mention bullets if you play there).
Ameristar and Harrah's are on the other side of town, and fairly standard. They're about a half hour drive from downtown, or fifteen minutes from the airport. Both have about 15-20 tables, and mostly locals who play each other a lot.
Joined: Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:15 pm Posts: 331 Location: The State of Hockey
Thank for the tip. I did stop by Lumier Casino. Very nice poker room. I was there two nights. They have a 6pm $55 NL tournament. 30 max and typically gets around 20 players per night. They had 6 live games min going each night I was there. Two tables each of 2/5 NL, 1/3 NL and 3/6 limit. If I read it correct, table max is 1000 x big blind. One odd thing I ran into, you must have a players card to enter the casino and all chips must come from main casino cage. No buying chips at the tables (poker or any pit games). The reason being, there is a maximum amount of chips you can get per hour tracked by you card which must be swiped at the cage. I assume this is to limit how much you can lose. Can anyone confirm what the rule is?
Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:34 pm Posts: 5049 Location: Las Vegas!!!
all missouri casinos are like that, it is from back when they were river boats, you are only technically allowed to buy $500 per "trip". Or every hour, it's a weird law. Most places have card readers at the tables, but not all of them.
It's a screwy law, but hey at least they have gaming!
I am still not sure how people get thousand and thousands of dollars in their stacks in those casinos, seems like a lot of work when you can only buy in for $500 a time. (I think you can get the level changed but I am not sure)
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Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:34 pm Posts: 5049 Location: Las Vegas!!!
just found this on the LVRJ site
Las Vegas Review Journal wrote:
"Missouri voters will have a chance to end the state's loss limit, under which gamblers may only wager up to $500 over a two-hour period. Approval of a November ballot initiative would remove the loss limit and add 1 percent to the state's 20 percent gaming tax, generating more than $130 million for education.
Early polling favors passage. Still, Missouri casino operators, such as Pinnacle Entertainment and Ameristar Casinos, are expected to mount a marketing effort supporting the initiative."
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Joined: Mon Jul 10, 2006 11:16 am Posts: 978 Location: Portland, OR
The players card thing threw me, too, when i played KC for the first time. The really odd part was there was a stocked bank in the poker room, and all the poker tables had a bank in them, yet I had to go to the main cage for my chips. But if laws made sense, lawyers would (mostly) be unemployed.
Nice to hear Lumiere is decent, the website looked very good.
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