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I am in the fortunate position at work to go to a US city for a conference. I get to choose the conference so in effect, I get to choose the city.

Other than Las Vegas, Atlantic City or most of California, where would a poker player like to go for a week in the US?

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Tunica, Mississippi is where it's at!

I'm kidding, I would pick Vegas as they're very prepared for conferences, companies hold them there all the time. Tons of choice for venue and unlimited gambling opportunities I hear.

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If you play Limit HoldEm Phoenix,AZ and Minneapolis,MN are nice and have great games.

State Law prohibits No Limit at both

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You might consider New Orleans. There is poker in town, and the company might find a break on convention rates + be able to get positive PR for supporting New Orleans comeback. I have not been there since the hurricane, but it is/was a great city. I'd be interested in recent trip reports before choosing this option.

I would not chose Memphis/Tunica at all, but maybe I just had a bad Memphis experience - I was there for 3 days and it immediately rose to the top of my list of least favorite cities in the US.

Chicago is an option as it has poker nearby in Indiana.

Other than the obvious Vegas answer, I'd probably go with NO.

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Well, I've only been to a couple, but from my reading around here the generally big poker towns in the US are:

Los Angeles, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Atlantic City, NJ
Phoenix, AZ
Minneapolis, MN
Tunica, MS
Seattle, WA
SF Bay, CA
Tampa Bay, FL
San Diego, CA

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New Orleans
Phoenix-Scottsdale

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If you play Limit HoldEm Phoenix,AZ and Minneapolis,MN are nice and have great games.

State Law prohibits No Limit at both

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I went to this website: https://www.harrahs.com/casinos/harr...er-detail.html

It looks like they have NL tournaments???

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Chicago is an option as it has poker nearby in Indiana.


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I visited this site and it has a map of casinos in the Chicago area: http://www.chicagotraveler.com/maps/...asinos-map.htm

Any opinions on these? I would most likely be out near O'Hare Airport.

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If you play Limit HoldEm Phoenix,AZ and Minneapolis,MN are nice and have great games.

State Law prohibits No Limit at both

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I went to this website: https://www.harrahs.com/casinos/harr...er-detail.html

It looks like they have NL tournaments???

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They both have NL tournaments but No NL Cash Games.

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I travel 2-3 times a year for trade shows and the 1st thing I look for is whether there are poker rooms in driving distance!

November Im in San Diego- woohoo!!

February Im in Nashville- shoot me now....

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I am in the fortunate position at work to go to a US city for a conference. I get to choose the conference so in effect, I get to choose the city.

Other than Las Vegas, Atlantic City or most of California, where would a poker player like to go for a week in the US?

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Lake Tahoe?

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I am in the fortunate position at work to go to a US city for a conference. I get to choose the conference so in effect, I get to choose the city.

Other than Las Vegas, Atlantic City or most of California, where would a poker player like to go for a week in the US?

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Lake Tahoe?

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Nice, I also ski. Unfortunately, I am well known im my office as a poker player and that's why I tried to exlude CA and NV along with Atlantic City. It's just not good optics I'm afraid. Minnesota and Phoenix are looking good and if it's in January, Phoenix is clear frontrunner.

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Here's the problem with Chicago. The casinos you would want to visit are in Gary/East Chicago, Indiana. From O'Hare, that can be a nightmare drive (with traffic). The closest casino (that has poker) is in Aurora, but it's a small room and no one I know has ever had a good word to say about it. There's also the Potawatomi casino in Milwaukee, which is (roughly) a 90-minute drive north.

Basically, if you pick Chicago, you'll be spending a lot of time in your rental car.

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IOWA would be a tremendous choice..........

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Optics?

I presume that if it were a summer conference, that Minnesota would move into the lead. Not that it doesn't get stinking hot here.

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If you are a man. You come to detroit mutha [censored]......................lol

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I assume by "optics" you mean "it wouldn't look good to choose a conference in Vegas if I want my coworkers to think I actually went to the conference"?

If that's the case, nobody's going to think twice about you spending a week in the lovely San Francisco Bay Area. I mean, c'mon now, there's a lot of great stuff that's NOT poker here, and Tahoe is only a few hours away t'boot. I realy doubt anybody is going to think "Oh, he went to San Francisco, must be playing cards!"

They'll think a lot of other stuff, though, if they subscribe to any of the stereotypes generated over the past 150 years. (And they're all true!)

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The Bay area isn't so lovely in January because it rains a lot. There aren't a ton of conferences there either. However, the nice thing about a conference in San Jose or Phoenix is he can play locals during the morning and afternoons, when the Vegas cardrooms are desolate, and hop a cheap 1 hour flight to Vegas for nighttime action.

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California cardrooms have games that go all the time, everyday (except at the absolute biggest limits). This is ideal for the conference-goer.

Long Beach (LA), San Francisco, and San Jose are extremely common conference sites, so you should get no flack for any of them.

Long Beach is not an unbearable commute from the Commerce (depends on hour of the day), San Jose will be like 5 minutes from Bay 101, and San Francisco isn't far from Lucky Chances and about an hour (most of the time) from Bay 101.

California is the clear winner here.

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What about Florida? Didn't they just raise their NL games?

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What about Florida? Didn't they just raise their NL games?

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?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I am in the fortunate position at work to go to a US city for a conference. I get to choose the conference so in effect, I get to choose the city.

Other than Las Vegas, Atlantic City or most of California, where would a poker player like to go for a week in the US?

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Lake Tahoe?

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Nice, I also ski. Unfortunately, I am well known im my office as a poker player and that's why I tried to exlude CA and NV along with Atlantic City. It's just not good optics I'm afraid. Minnesota and Phoenix are looking good and if it's in January, Phoenix is clear frontrunner.

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Yeah. Phoenix or Florida.

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California cardrooms have games that go all the time, everyday (except at the absolute biggest limits). This is ideal for the conference-goer.

Long Beach (LA), San Francisco, and San Jose are extremely common conference sites, so you should get no flack for any of them.

Long Beach is not an unbearable commute from the Commerce (depends on hour of the day), San Jose will be like 5 minutes from Bay 101, and San Francisco isn't far from Lucky Chances and about an hour (most of the time) from Bay 101.

California is the clear winner here.

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I am now swinging this way. High tech is my field and there are tons of conferences all over CA along with a ton of casinos.

I like the idea of leaving the snow here in February or March in Ottawa, Canada and heading for sunny CA .