question about tunica and casino's in general

[phairdon]

Hello,

I made my first trip to a live cardroom in Biloxi and played 1/2 NL at the IP. The IP makes you pay $6 every 30 minutes just to sit at the table, in addition to the rake. With how long it takes for some hands to play out and then for the dealer to shuffle and deal, I barely got inbetween 1 to 2 orbits every 30 minutes. $6 every 30 minutes seems ridiculous. Is it like this at most casinos? I'm looking to make a trip to Tunica soon and am interested in how much it costs just to sit at the poker tables there.

[RR]

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Hello,

I made my first trip to a live cardroom in Biloxi and played 1/2 NL at the IP. The IP makes you pay $6 every 30 minutes just to sit at the table, in addition to the rake. With how long it takes for some hands to play out and then for the dealer to shuffle and deal, I barely got inbetween 1 to 2 orbits every 30 minutes. $6 every 30 minutes seems ridiculous. Is it like this at most casinos? I'm looking to make a trip to Tunica soon and am interested in how much it costs just to sit at the poker tables there.

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If they charged you time that was instead of the rake.

[flafishy]

The casinos in Tunica take rake, no time charge last time I was there.

[DerFleisch]

There are currently five cardrooms in Tunica: Horseshoe (best action), Gold Strike, Grand (largest room), Sam's Town, and Hollywood (smallest room). All spread NL, but if you're going to play even 1-2 NL in Tunica, BRING LOTS OF MONEY. The games have no limit on the buy-in (500-1000 BB stacks, anyone?) Only the Hollywood has a capped buy-in ($200).

I don't know how the games in Biloxi are, but in Tunica, the games are full of nits (except for the Horseshoe, which has lots of juicy action.) This is compared to my experiences in Vegas playing low-stakes LHE (3-6 to 5-10).

Don't bother going outside the casinos, either...there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING there. Once you get past the entrance to the Gold Strike/Horseshoe/Sheraton, you find...cotton fields.

[Benjamin]

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I don't know how the games in Biloxi are, but in Tunica, the games are full of nits (except for the Horseshoe, which has lots of juicy action.)

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I was in Tunica Thursday night to Sunday morning and played a lot of 1/2 NL in the Gold Strike. The games were almost all action games with lots of straddling and reraising with 4-5 to the flop for 10-15 bucks each. This has been the case for probably most the 1/2 NL tables I've ever sat in on in the Gold Strike, so I disagree with your characterization of the games there as full of nits. Sams Town also was loose when I played it.

The 1/2 pot limit Omaha ran Friday and Saturday nights at the gold strike, and featured some of the sickest action I've ever seen outside of penny stakes.

B.

[kurokitty]

Tunica is totally rake-based. Like previous posters said, it's super-fishy and therefore worth your while.