Trip Report: Argosy, Indiana

[Tom1975]

The room is in fact now open. I stopped down there tonight.

The room is on the first floor of the boat in the back corner. It has 15 tables as advertised. The tables are shoe-horned in there pretty tight, it seemed like they tried to squeeze as many tables as they could in to the space they were alotted. There is a wall going around the perimeter of the room, but there are openings in it, so you can still hear the slot machines going. It's not as isoloted as the Belterra or new GV room. There is a dedicated cage for the room on the first floor but it's not in the room itself.

When I first got there around 11:00 pm, they had about 12 of the 15 tables in action. Game wise, they had 3/6, 4/8, 6/12, 10/20, and 15/30 limit; 1/3 (100/300 buy-in) and 2/5 (300/500 buy-in) no limit, and 4/8 O8 with a kill. They also had an interest list for 20/40 limit and 5/10 NL but never got it open. They have a computerzied waiting list system that displays on one of the tv's. The lists for the games that were going weren't that long at all. I immediately got a seat at 6/12. By the time I left around 2:00, they were down to about 6 tables. Of course this was the first night so I'm sure business will pick up once the word gets out.

The tables were pretty standard - padded rails, normal felt, no built-in cup holders. The dealers all seemed inexperienced and I saw a number of rookie mistakes. I had heard that a fair number of dealers from the GV and Belterra were going to argosy, but I only saw one former GV dealer while I was there. I did recognize a couple of former BJ dealers from back when I played BJ at Argosy who are now dealing poker.

They have a bad beat jackpot. They take $1 out of all pots $20 or higher for all limit games 20/40 or lower and all NL games 5/10 or lower. To win you have to have Aces full of 10's or better beaten by quads or better. Payout is 40 to loser, 20 to winner, 40 to rest of table.

As for comps, I was told you get$1/hr with no daily maximum. Comps can be saved and redeemed at any time.

My overall first impression of the room was pretty average. There's nothing horrible about it but nothing really stands out either. I'd say it's on par with GV's new room. My favorite is still the Belterra. If were as close to me as the Argosy I would definetly play there over Argosy. However, I can get to Argosy in 25 minutes versus an hour for the Belterra, so that makes it a tougher decision.