The other room is Club Jacks. It's in a strip center about 20 minutes from Moneymakers. Their website showed them opening at 2 pm. I went by about 3:30 and there were police cars blocking the entrances to the center and the Walmart next to it. I went into another center on the other side of the Walmart and one of the shopkeepers told me there had been a shooting and the police told them to close down - no idea when they would leave.

I hung around for a 1/2 hour or so but nothing changed. Then I called the number for the club to see if they had anything going. The guy who answered wasn't at the club and had no idea what was going on. He told me they had decided earlier that they weren't going to open til 6 pm for a (hopefully) tournament. Maybe get a cash game going afterwards. He didn't sound too confident and I didn't have time for that - tourneys are a time sink when you are chasing chips. So I went to Moneymakers.

When I mentioned that later at Moneymakers they warned me that the place was pretty sketchy.

Have you knocked out the Texas rooms yet? You could get to 600 pretty quick with a short vacation to Dallas/Houston/Austin.

Not yet but have a direct path to 600 using mainly charity rooms in my immediate area (200 or so miles from near Chicago). I will post an update in the Poker Rooms Played in Thread which is probably more appropriate.