Harrahs in Joliet Illinois
 

Tried the search, couldnt find anything

What games run here?

Taking a job out of Aurora so I will be up their for 9 months.... Is there any other casinos closer than Joliet?

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I don't think Harrah's Joliet has a poker room.

Hollywood Casino in Aurora has a poker room, but I've never been there so I don't know much about it.

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Hollywood in Joliet

since Harrahs has no poker room what does Hollywood spread anyone know?

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Hollywood is in Aurora. Harrah's in Joliet has no poker at all.

Hollywood from what I've read spreads 5/10 and 10/20 limit.

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Last I heard Empress does have a poker room, although its only 3-4 tables and they open or close it every few months. I hear rumprs about 2-5, 5-10 NL and 5-10,10-20 and 20-40 LHE but it isn't all of those games and I don't know which ones.

Hollywood in Aurora definately has a poker room. Its 5-10, 10-20 and sometimes 20-40, I think 20-40 runs during the week.

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Hollywood in Joliet

since Harrahs has no poker room what does Hollywood spread anyone know?

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Hollywood is in Aurora. 6 tables - smokey, noisy, and filled with rude suburbanites. 5-10 and 10-20 with 1/2 kill when I was last there.

Empress in Joliet (close to I-55) not the Harrahs downtown does have a poker "room" again. This is the third or fourth time they have opened and closed it. 3 tables right in the casino. 5-10, 10-20 and a NL game. Mostly locals.

The Joliet boat closes their poker room at 6pm on Friday night and reopens it again at 6pm on Sunday night. Aurora at least "tries" to keep a table or two running during the peak hours, but they are sometimes told by the casino to NOT open another table - or even to close one that is running.

Illinois law currently restricts each boat to 1200 "gaming positions". If you were the casino, who would be more valuable to you? ONE poker table running, or 10 slot machines?

If you are in Aurora, a quick drive up to the Potti in downtown Milwaukee will get you a much better room and game selection. If you are in Joliet, just wait a few months for the Horseshoe in Hammond IN to open and its new poker room will blow away the competition in Joliet and also Gary and East Chicago.

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the job is in aurora i will need to choose a place to live

preferably w in 20 min or so of aurora

if i prefer limit poker

where is my best destination

pref between 15-30 to 30-60

if potti what is potti short for?

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Potti is short for Pottawatomi in Milwaukee. For 20-40 I recommend Resorts because it goes every day. I vaguely recall that Pottawatomi gets 20-40 or 30-60, but I'm not sure and its not every day.

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I heard that there is a casino in Gary Indiana that has a fairly good poker room, and that they even host HPT (Heartland Poker Tour) events there on a regular basis.

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Resorts East Chicago will be running WPT satellite games. If there are any major WPT events run in the Chicago area my guess they will be run at Four Winds. For detailed information on Chicago area poker rooms go to www.cardclubs.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=165

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Hollywood Aurora has tolerable mid-stakes limit play for a small room with massive waiting lists. Resorts East Chicago IN mid-stakes (10/20, 20/40)and sometimes higher, is jacked up, bigger room, beeper pagers etc. Its a good 1 hour 20 from Aurora during the best case traffic scenario, that is otherwise horrible.

Majestic Star a few miles away from Resorts in Gary IN has one of the best rooms with 21 tables in the Chicagoland area, great staff imo, but, zip 10/20 or 20/40 LHE. My personal fav for NL cash/tourneys.

The Pottawotami in Milwaukee? Defer to other posters on Limit action. Have only played NL there. Nice place, but no opinion on LHE. And, it is a good 2 hours each way from Aurora. Nearby Elgin Grand Victoria is slot donk heaven - zip poker. Same for Harrahs a little farther south in Joliet. Empress Joliet - I have given up on their poker. I can never depend on the vy small room being open. Harrah's Horseshoe in Hammond IN is a little closer to you than Resorts or Majestic Star, but you will have to wait until after they complete their expansion sometime in 2008 for poker.

Oh, BTW, IL is going no smoking, casinos included as of Jan 1 2008. Don't know if this matters to you or not, but, if you enjoy a smoke during poker room (already non smoking obv)breaks at Hollywood, you will now be herded off to a fancy bus-stop like structure, outside, exposed to the elements. Don't know what type of climate you are used to, but, around mid-Feb, Chicago weather at 20 below wind-chill is -EV on the body, I don't care how many freakin propane heaters they put out there.

So, for me, IN>WI>IL [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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chijoe, think the cardclubs site needs a little update...didn't Hollywood just open a 2/5 500 max NL game; and, haven't seen 10/20, 20/40 LHE at MSII for seems like ages

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I heard that there is a casino in Gary Indiana that has a fairly good poker room, and that they even host HPT (Heartland Poker Tour) events there on a regular basis.

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Didnt you get banned for a short period of time for spamming this stuff?

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chijoe, think the cardclubs site needs a little update...didn't Hollywood just open a 2/5 500 max NL game; and, haven't seen 10/20, 20/40 LHE at MSII for seems like ages

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Thanks, I updated the site.

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did hollywood start no-limit? i knew they were talking about it and asking players for their opinions. as of two weeks ago they did not offer nl.