Poker Road Trips

Mon - Thursday 4pm-2am

Fri  4pm-4am

Sat 2pm - 4pm

Sun 2pm- 2am          

They’ve opened a buffet at Paradise Casino near Red Rock, Ok, between Ponca City and Stillwater.

That means the snack bar with the $1 hotdogs and $2 hamburgers and BBQ sandwiches is gone.

They stioll sell hot dogs at the bar but they are $2 now and they don’t have the fresh chopped onion for garnish anymore, just those plastic packs of relish.

The buffet is $10 and I didn’t eat but looking in didn’t show much of a selection.  The buffet is cheaper at lunch, but the poker games don’t start until evening.

Durant is just north of the Red River, on hiway US75.

It’s a fairly large room, no smoking, enclosed in glass, with another enclosed room inside for “big” games.  They used to have a regular 2/5 NL game that went in that room but it didn’t go on any of the days during my recent trip although they did have a list for it.

It seems to have pretty much turned into a 1/2 NL room.  They used to spread a 3/6 limit game also but that game seems to have dried up.  The 1/2 game is a capped buyin game ($40-$300).  It might be $200, I actually don’t remember.

Durant is just north of the Red River, on hiway US75. It’s a fairly large room, no smoking, enclosed in glass, with another enclosed room inside for “big” games.  They used to have a regular 2/5 NL game that went in that room but it didn’t go on any of the days during my recent trip although they did have a list for it. It seems to have pretty much turned into a 1/2 NL room.  They used to spread a 3/6 limit game also but that game seems to have dried up.  The 1/2 game is a capped buyin game ($40-$300).  It might be $200, I actually don’t remember.

They have frequent tournaments and have a 5 am breakfast buffet for players.

I like the room.

It’s North of Stillwater, South of Ponca City, just East of I35.

The casino itself is kind of a dumpy place, on weekends they have live music with a really bad sound system that just blasts noise into the poker room.  It’s not the music I don’t like, they often have blues or country, stuff I like, but the noise volume in the poker room is just intolarable.  

It’s a small room, 6 tables.  Decent games, decent dealers, it’s pretty much all 1/2 NLHE, with a 5/10 NLHE or 1/2, 5 to go PLO or NLE every once in a while.  Frequent tournaments.

I’m about an hour away and I like the games so I play whenever I get a chance.