Played 1/2 last night and can't find anything to complain about. Multiple drunk fish at my table calling 3bet shoves with 56 off suit and asking the dealer if you have to show your cards to win??? One of my favorite places to play.

First night playing in over six months. Going to try and play at least twice weekly. I want to see if I can move up from $1-$2 to the $2-$5 game. Good start (+671).

Two or three regs at table. One of them three bet often. Otherwise not much tricky play. Lots of juicy action. Tons of limping then calling preflop raises then check folding the flop. Occasionally someone spazzed out and dumped a stack lightly.

I would love to hear from a $2-$5 reg about how that game plays.

Have you been playing mostly weekends? The game's quite different between weekdays and weekends. Weekdays aren't much tougher, but you're usually playing against semi-thinking regs who won't stack off as light (unless you can convince them that you're just a tourist lol).

Only a couple of sessions under my belt. Will be there this weekend and will give report on $1-$2 game.

Was in town for a conference this past weekend. Here's my report.

Played about six hours of 1-2 Friday night. Lost $200. I thought the caliber of play was pretty good and the room was pretty full. Only had to wait about 15 minutes and when they had 7 names on the waiting list, they opened a new table. I got there about 5:30 p.m. I missed out on a few spots where I could have won some big pots but I didn't follow through. Would have rivered a nut straight on 2 occasions, but didn't call a good-sized turn bet.

Played the $130 tourney on Saturday. Wound up with 70 players. I was the last in and made it to 19th. Top 10 spots paid. Would have set myself up for a decent shot at the final table, but my AJ lost an all-in to 10-10.

Played again Monday morning. Only 2 1-2 tables going when I got there, and neither was full. The caliber of competition was not good at all. I wound up winning $365 in less than 90 minutes before I had to leave to catch my ride to the airport. Wish I could have stayed longer. The typical betting pattern at this table was pre-flop raise to $15, C-bet on flop of $30 and then, if anybody called, they check-checked river and turn. In other words, they wouldn't hit the flop but would bet it strong and would back down if they encountered resistance. They would also spend a lot of money chasing gut shot straights or flushes. I got more worried when they would check the flop.

The dealers were good, comp drinks of all kinds, usually delivered pretty quickly. The poker room is non-smoking, but there is smoking in the casino.

I an planning a visit in the next couple of weeks. My question is: How many runners do they usually get for the Wednesday 11 AM $130 Buyin Tournament?

I assume structure is fairly quick?

What is the typical finishing time?

Thanks, and information would be appreciated.

Looking forward to some Cajun Eats and Hospitality!!

BQ

Wednesday's tourney generally gets 50-70 runners. You start w/ 5k chips and levels are 20 min long, usually ends with some type of chop around 4-5pm.

Thanks for the info my friend

Played here over the weekend.

Earlier in this thread, I believe someone mentioned this being an ideal spot for low to mid-stakes grinders. The confluence of many strong factors including a great buy-in structure (biggest stack at table may be matched), drunks stumbling in from bourbon street gifting stacks, reliable action more or less 24/7, etc. make for a phenomenal game. Not to mention living in a very fun, low COL city.

Unfortunately it seems the secret is out. I don't think I've seen more backpacks and hoodies per capita anywhere else but maybe the venetian las vegas. There is a very incestuous vibe particularly in the 2-5 NL game. All of the players seem to know each other. Collusion is rampant (saw a player flat a raise and 3bet with AA preflop before back-5betting another obvious grinder all in). I would not feel comfortable playing in this game as an outsider.

PLO was fun though. I've never seen such a deep game. Pretty much everyone at the table sat 500+ bb. Play was standard (very bad). Not sure how often this game runs but it is an apparent gold mine.

Fortunately, just because someone carries a backpack or wears a hoodie (it does tend to get cold near the middle of the room), doesn't mean they're good or beating the game

The PLO doesn't run consistently, but when it does, it plays very big for the table stakes. The 2/5 is like that because there just aren't enough 2/5 tables that run consistently.

I've seen tourists get treated very well almost always (as long as they aren't being *******s of course). Once you say you're visiting, people from the area love to tell you some good places to eat or ask how you're enjoying the city.

It's hard for me to emphasize how bad the regs are in these games everytime I've gone to Harrah's. Playing deep against fishes where you basically just hope to flop two pair+ against an idiot is super exploitable and standard

Can anyone provide any information regarding the weekly Saturday tournament? Typical field size? Average SS? Blind structure? Around what time the final table hits? I would greatly appreciate it.

Kind of a delayed trip report here.

I spent 5 days in New Orleans recently and played at Harrah's every night. Cashed out about a G a night in profit.

This room is really soft. Most of the players that I'd presume are profitable in this room would not be profitable players in LA or Vegas. The best regs I saw were a couple of female rounders in their early 20s who were clearly not from Louisiana, and possibly not even from America, so that should tell you something about the softness of the homegrown poker culture there.

I honestly wish I had more time to stay in NO because I would love to be grinding that room right now. The plays I saw some people making were just unreal. I actually ended my first night stuck a little bit because I had to adjust my play a lot from what I've used to (there are a LOT of calling stations who are totally fine check calling/check calling/calling for stacks on the river with a pair of aces rag kicker), but once I did it was so easy to just get ridiculous value. When you can jam top pair top kicker on the flop for over 200 big blinds, get two callers, and be good, you know you're playing in a good room.

was out there again Sunday night (first time in about a month) and the property is undergoing so remodeling, a little bit of which impacts the poker room for the better (at least in my opinion).

Walking in from the street, they have ripped some of the carpet out and replaced it with tile for a walkway (I hope that is only temporary because it was white and looked aged already). The improvement in the poker room is a glass mini-wall along the rail separating the poker area from the gaming area. Seemed to cut out a lot of the pass-through smoke and seemed to cut down the noise from the machines.

One side-effect was that it seemed to keep the poker room even colder than it already was from all of the A/C vents that blew onto the tables...it stayed freezing even into the early AM hours yesterday and it used to be that you could sort of feel it warming up in the wee hours as traffic died down.

The tables themselves were still the usual to be expected at Harrahs NOLA, so no new commentary needed on them

Thanks for the update Michelle. Looking forward to playing there this weekend with the updates although I hope they don't shut down the room for construction or anything.

biggest inconvenience I saw was more related to where they were working when I went to leave- they had an area of the walkway outside of the poker room they were ripping carpet up from. It was right there at the poker desk, so when I went to leave, I had to go out by the bar.

Not sure exactly what time that started since my back was to the casino floor for the entire night (sat down around 8pm Sunday) and didn't have to move until my original table broke around 6am yesterday morning LOL!

Since it looks like they are trying to do the work during 'dead' hours, I would guess that even if they did re-carpet the poker room, it wouldn't impact play. After all, laying carpet really isn't THAT difficult of a deal to accomplish during non-peak hours...especially since the poker room cage shuts down somewhere in the middle of the night and apparently doesn't re-open until sometime after 8am during the week (even chip runners were having to go to the main cage for fills and player needs).

The carpet in the poker room was upgraded sometime in July I believe, maybe late June. So you'll be fine. It's mostly the walkways that are being done now.

Got here last night, in the 1 2 I had a super tight image, I made it 15 dude shoves for 86 and gets 3 callers I fold qk. Shiver had AQ hit a queen scoops pot. Seen even more ridiculousness today, these people really hate money.

the seats ought to have belts attached...just buckle in and enjoy the ride. Once you realize that raises to $12-15 are common and will still go six way to a flop, game becomes much easier. I've even had $1/2 tables out there where raises to $20+ got at least five way action. Oh, and forget about most anyone at the table paying attention to image...the closest most get is the antique stereotypes about how women will play (I saw that after a table change around 6am Monday).

Reality is that the most attention anyone is paying is to whether the cocktail waitress is about to come back to the table...the $2/5 game can occasionally be a little different in that regard.

Not as common to see it when I have been out there mid-week, but definitely still goes on...weekends get completely cray-cray especially after 7 or 8pm.

I was at the Harrah's in New Orleans around this time last year. I sat down with a rack at the 1/2 and guy to my left was sitting with around $10,000 and making it $200 to go blind, almost every hand. The guy was calling $500-$800 shoves without looking at his cards. I sat there and watched him repeatedly bust huge hands with garbage like Q4, 73, K2, like it was nothing. The games are ridiculously deep there on the weekends from my experience and filled with gamblers, more so than players.

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Randall?

I didn't get his name. I sat, doubled up, and went back to my hotel room for the night. There was a key hand where I opened the cutoff for $35 with the 78ss after 3 or 4 limps and he made it $150 to go without looking at his cards. It folds back to me, I flat. Flop is 9sTs3 I check, he continues for $200, saying "I might have got a piece of that" I flat again, turn is a 6 and I check. He puts me all in for around $240 more and I snap. River is a 3. He turns over A3 like it's the nuts and I table the straight. He takes a drink of his Bud Light and says "I guess I lost the minimum there." Pretty interesting/humorous hand to say the least.

Calling his 3! with 87s is something I would definitely not be doing but good hand I guess. That type of thing does tend to happen often especially when 2-5 players bring 1k to a new 1-2 table and no1 says anything. I guess I'll be the as*hole who calls them out on it since no1 else ever has a clue of what's going on. Or maybe they do and they don't care idk. Someone give me some updates on the 2-5 game. I saw a few guys playing it this afternoon that shouldn't even be playing 1-2nl. Game has to be good.

And 10-25 PLO? holy sh*t didn't know people degened that hard here. The 3-4 young 20' something's must be killing it.

donk on donk violence right there.