I played at the Horseshoe last week on a weekday night and there were two tables of 1/3 NLHE, one of 4/8 (?) LHE and one of 200/400 mixed. That was kinda disappointing.

The 1/3 game was filled with mostly older locals that were pretty friendly but played super tight. I was pretty active but didn't go to a single showdown all night.

The word "Virtual" means almost or nearly as described, but not completely. So I confidently stand by my statement that the Horseshoe has a virtual monopoly over the Tunica poker market.

A far cry indeed from when there used to be 6 poker rooms in Tunica.

It is true that the Hollywood casino offers a nearly empty poker room where one can play a game of 3/6 limit hold em and may have one table of 1/3 no limit hold em on Friday or Saturday night. Unless the constantly declining poker player base in Tunica migrates to the Hollywood of course.

Bluff those friendly old bastards!

This WSOP Circuit Event could very well be my last trip to Tunica then, have been there since the good times till now, amazing how the place has gone downhill, but completion from surrounding areas will do that...

They don't care. The poker room doesn't make any money to even be worth a mention when the beancounters look at the books. I would not be the least bit surprised if they close it. Seems the most logical thing to do from a financial standpoint, especially with the way the Tunica market is going, and the decreasing number of people who are even interested in playing poker.

But they JUST remodeled the dern thing. Wasted funds.

No bluff here: I and my poker buddies live in Chattanooga and Nashville. We could go to Cherokee or So. Indiana just as easily as Tunica. We were already considering doing HSI this time, and if we find it +EV compared to Tunica, I may never go there again. And raising the rake in Tunica certainly doesn't help its EV.

(Horseshoe management, are you listening?)

Yes, its very sad, as is the whole condition of the Tunica casino market. If one bean counter with his MBA decides to bring out his chart that says he can quadruple and more the amount of money that that space on the floor is making by taking out the poker room, believe me it will happen. These are sad days for Tunica, no doubt about it.

Three more quick comments;

1. Remember about 10 years ago when the Harrahs Co bought the Horseshoe casinos from Jack Binion? All the concern about; "Will Harrahs RUIN the Tunica Horseshoe Poker Room?"

2. Compare to LV where Harrahs/Caesars have lots of stupid little poker rooms with a $5 rake. MGM (and Wynn and V) have a much better product that costs you less in rake and they give better comps. Ironic that now I read that CP in LV is going to LOWER its rake to $4.

3. Like an above poster, me and my guys are a long drive away from Tunica. Several other poker destinations are within shorter range. For the past many years we have preferred Tunica Horseshoe for factors including rake and comps. Now, they seem to be raising the rake and decreasing the (food) comp.

That's all the comments I am going to make for now. Have a trip scheduled to the Tunica Shoe in two weeks. So, I will find some facts for myself. Will talk with several locals. Will see who the poker manager says I should talk with in Caesars management.

Rake change is permanent.

All tunica players should stop playing at horseshoe and move over to play at Hollywood to protest this money grab of this evil bankrupt company that owns the horseshoe now.

Well, they better impress me pretty damn good this trip, as there are plenty of other circuit events closer to me than tunica... RIP tunica..... You were once a good thing... I can remember the good old days of when the place was happening in January...

Just returned from Tunica. The action was pretty impressive with the circuit in town. I will join everyone in the gripe fest, though, I played for 12 hours and was still going to be charged 17 dollars for a plate of fried rice. Last year, you could sneeze in the poker room and get a full meal bought table side. Betwen that and the increased rake, it's hard to imagine going back except during the circuit. For an extra hour on the road, there are too many options to go back on the reg.

Hey guys looking for some travel advice and figured this was the place. Few questions and sorry for my naivety on the subject. A friend of mine are looking to travel to New Orleans as we have never been. We both play poker and would like to stay at or close to a casino, how far are they from New Orleans and the "New Orleans experience"? Are there multiple around? How far are they from the airport. Any help is greatly appreciated, feel free to post answers or pm me.

Thanks

This is the forum for tunica Mississippi. That's about 30 minutes south of Memphis Tennessee... which is a good long ways from Nawrlenz.

well it appears i am geographically impaired haha. is there a separate active new Orleans thread?

Their monopoly doesn't seem to be making them many customers.

Just got back from Tunica and played about 20 hours at the 1-3 NL tables at the Horseshoe. There were so many idiot bluffers, it was almost comical. If they were dealt an Ace, they raised $20 - $25...regardless of their other card. Some of the fish would raise without even looking at their cards (Rounders wannabes?) and yes, they appeared sober! I just sat back and waited for their mistakes and went home about $900 richer

I was lucky that none of the idiots sucked out on any of the big pots; it was nice to see the best hand hold up!

How was the circuit event? Were there long lists of players trying to get into the cash games? I figure they were a good 15 tables short of what was available last year with Harrahs having 26 tables, and the overflow going to the Horseshoe.

Did the rake mysteriously drop after the circuit event ended?

How is the traffic now? Worse than before the event (due to everyone being "pokered out")?

I don't remember exactly how many tables they had, but the lists were never really super long. They 'extended' the poker room by putting some tables on the outside of the room. The only time lists may have been long is when they had to use some of those tables for overflow from the $365 event.

Rake is $5 + 1 now.

Traffic was fine this weekend. It seems like they had several $1/3 tables going and a couple of $2/5 games and a $5/5 PLO.

So Horseshoe is the only "action" poker room left on Tunica? What happened to Gold Strike? It used to be one of the largest poker room in US (http://www.cardschat.com/top-5-american-poker-rooms.php)...

The Goldstrike is closed. Traffic to the room dropped off drastically. I am not sure when that article was written, but it was probably during the glory days of Tunica poker. It was a nice room.

There is always the rumor floating around that they want to re-open in a downstairs location, but I can't see that happening. They just don't have room for it.

The Horseshoe is the only decent room left in town. As a result, comps were slashed in a major way and the rake was increased 20%.

Why do you say only decent room? Hollywood has a lower rake and way better comps and food!!

I agree my friend. The Hollywood poker room is very nice, food is great, and the rake is LOWER than at the Horseshoe.

The one problem with the Hollywood poker room is traffic and players. We need to spread the word about the Hollywood poker room and get the player base from Horseshoe to move over there. Horseshoe has blatantly screwed over the poker players while the Hollywood still has a lower rake, a nice room, great food. If the problem of not having many players is solved at Hollywood it would be a great alternative to the corporate nazis running the Horseshoe.

Hollywood still close at midnight ? They are having a tournament series end of this month into March I think it said in the email I got from them.