Poker near Santa Fe, NM

[riotact]

I'm travelling to Santa Fe for a week and need some help finding some decent poker in the area.

What I am especially looking for are 1/2 NL cash games (preferably with capped buyins) and non-smoking is a plus.

i know of 2 casinos so far from reading this board and google searches: cities of gold and Sandia

Sandia sounds better but alot further from where i'm staying. Any and all info about poker rooms quality, games/limits, players, etc would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[FeliciaLee]

Sandia, you won't be disappointed. For a long time, it was my favorite poker room in the world, and it was smoking (I'm a non-smoker, if this tells you anything!).

[river me please]

Sandia is probably your best bet. It is about 30 or 40 minutes south of Santa Fe. Poker room is non smoking now so for me that is a major plus. They usually have 1 or 2 NL games going nightly. NL games are fair to good. Can sometimes lean towards tight passive. You will usually find at least 1 or 2 calling stations though that will pay you off quite often.

[riotact]

Cool, i'll have to stop by Sandia for sure then. How's the rake at each poker room? I also saw Cities of Gold has some low buyin tourneys; how are they? Thanks for all the info!

[SirFelixCat]

Never been to CoG, but I go to Sandia twice a month from Amarillo. They now have a bad beat jackpot in all white chip games, so the rake is $4 per hand (including the $1 jackpot drop). Very very loose games. If you have other questions post or PM me.

If you are there the weekend of the 14th, I'll be there.

[pc in NM]

I'll be in town the weekend of the 14th also. Most likely $10/$20....

Does anyone know the tourney schedule Friday thru Monday? The web site has no info....

[ScottieK]

Sandia Casino, a mountain of fun!

Best poker room in the state...only 50 minute drive south from Santa Fe.

May see you there. Sup Bro?

ScottieK

[ScottieK]

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I'll be in town the weekend of the 14th also. Most likely $10/$20....

Does anyone know the tourney schedule Friday thru Monday? The web site has no info....

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They always have a tourney Sunday at noon, usually NL Hold'em.

ScottieK

[SirFelixCat]

I'll be the long haired hippy dude in the Felix shirt. Throw me a 'sup bro' and we'll have a drink.

[pc in NM]

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I'll be the long haired hippy dude in the Felix shirt. Throw me a 'sup bro' and we'll have a drink.

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I'm a viejo, grey goatee, rimless glasse - I'll look for you

Know of a WPT Satellite tourney in January? I usually play the Sunday tourneys, except Omaha....

[SirFelixCat]

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I'll be the long haired hippy dude in the Felix shirt. Throw me a 'sup bro' and we'll have a drink.

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I'm a viejo, grey goatee, rimless glasse - I'll look for you

Know of a WPT Satellite tourney in January? I usually play the Sunday tourneys, except Omaha....

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No idea...funny thing is, I do not really play tourneys, but the 4 times I have there at Sandia, I have finished in the Top 10 3 times and the 4th time I finished 19th with an average field of 175 players...maybe I should play in more of them /images/graemlins/wink.gif We can find out this wknd about them.

See you there.