[Wongboy]

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I'm mostly a NLHE player, who is comfortable playing/winning up to the $5-10 NL level. I am going to be travelling all across Washington state next March (yes, a long time from now, but would still love to get the low down on things early).

I plan to spend 7 days driving across Washington, so am hoping to play at a preferably "nice" Casino (not some ghetto place with Shady people hopefully...). I would just like to have a good 2-3 nights of poker fun at a nice, clean Casino.

Would appreciate any recs. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

-TheMan

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Not sure what you mean by driving "across" Washington, but if you mean North-South on I-5, then you will go right by 2 decent sized poker rooms in non-shady casinos. Muckelshoot is south of Seattle, and Tulalip is north. Tulalip is probably your best bet. Lowest NL game that regularly goes is $3/$5 blinds and $100-$300 buy-ins. They also have $5/$10 and $10/$20 games that play a bit deeeper (in terms of BB's). Not technically a NL game, since the max bet is $500, but there is no max number of bets/raises per round, and the $500 limit really does not come into play much, at least at the $3/$5 game.

There are a ton of small card rooms up and down I-5 (probably 50+ within 5 miles of the interstate). The max bet at these places is $40, so they have mostly limit games, although some places offer $2-$40 spread limit games. These places do not really qualify as "nice" casinos, however.