casino poker in/near Indianapolis?

Marlow · #1 06-04-2007, 09:31 AM

At a conference this week, and would like to see some action. I've done a Google search, and it isn't clear if the Pair-A-Dice or any of the others are really real, or just figments of Google's imagination.

Mr. Mexican · #2 06-04-2007, 09:47 AM

There's a Caesar's Palace in South Indiana (about 1.5 hours) which is probably the best casino in the area. The best poker in the midwest would be at the Resorts Casino in East Chicago, In. It's a little over 2 hours drive from Naptown

Marlow · #3 06-04-2007, 10:51 AM

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There's a Caesar's Palace in South Indiana (about 1.5 hours) which is probably the best casino in the area. The best poker in the midwest would be at the Resorts Casino in East Chicago, In. It's a little over 2 hours drive from Naptown

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Hmmm. That's not too close, but not too far. I just have to decide if I'm enough of a degenerate fiend to rent a car just to play poker for a few hours.

Thanks for your help.

BobbyShaftoe · #4 06-04-2007, 05:06 PM

The drive is more like 2 hours to Caesar's. I was just there for the first time last weekend. Seemed nice. 10/20 game had plenty of action. Super-blotto 2-4-4-8 limit was fun, too.

Thread hijack question:

I'm mostly a limit monkey, but I play some live NL, too. I've been to Blue Chip and Caesar's in Indiana. Both have a $12/hr time charge on their NL tables. As a nitty-as-hell small stakes NL player, this would seem to hurt me quite a bit. Hell, the Blue chip had a 1/2 $100 max-buy with that $12/hr charge. Since you have 50BB, your implied odds are not exactly thru the roof. Tough to make that work unless half the table is profoundly retarded.

Any Indiana rooms just rake the NL tables?

PartysOver · #5 06-04-2007, 05:10 PM

roughly the same amount comes off the table, bobbys

MichaelOar · #6 06-04-2007, 06:32 PM

If you want to play 10/20 limit or higher, Resorts in East Chicago is a must. Otherwise, it's just a question of which room is closest.
Michael

BobbyShaftoe · #7 06-04-2007, 08:47 PM

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roughly the same amount comes off the table, bobbys

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Yeah, but if I'm shorstacked (50BB maxbuy wtf!) and playing <10% of my hands, paying 12 dollars to play 3 hands doesn't sound like fun. If I wind up at the Blue Chip again, I'll stick to limit or man-up and play the "big" NL game. At least at Caesar's the maxbuy in NL 1/2 is 300.

q16 · #8 06-04-2007, 10:02 PM

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Any Indiana rooms just rake the NL tables?

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French Lick has a $4 max rake. I don't know how their NL games are, but the 1/3, 100-500 (I think) buyin is popular.

tonybormin · #9 06-04-2007, 11:05 PM

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Hell, the Blue chip had a 1/2 $100 max-buy with that $12/hr charge. Since you have 50BB, your implied odds are not exactly thru the roof. Tough to make that work unless half the table is profoundly retarded.

Any Indiana rooms just rake the NL tables?

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Majestic Star, next door neighbor to Resorts East Chicago, is the exact same rake at this $100 1/2 level. If the MS game is anything like the Blue Chip you must be awful if you can't win $12 an hour. No offense of course.

BobbyShaftoe · #10 06-05-2007, 12:54 AM

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Hell, the Blue chip had a 1/2 $100 max-buy with that $12/hr charge. Since you have 50BB, your implied odds are not exactly thru the roof. Tough to make that work unless half the table is profoundly retarded.

Any Indiana rooms just rake the NL tables?

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Majestic Star, next door neighbor to Resorts East Chicago, is the exact same rake at this $100 1/2 level. If the MS game is anything like the Blue Chip you must be awful if you can't win $12 an hour. No offense of course.

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Never tried, just sort of looked at the game and did the math. I'd have to think the 300 maxbuy would change your wr considerably tho. Or do all the donks just buy in for $60 so it doesn't really matter?