Poker Road Trips

I played a few hours at Cherokee Tulsa Saturday.  Played too long, ended up losing more than I should have because of it.  I’m to old to be playing more than about 4-5 hours but I ended up playing 8-9 hours.  I’ll never learn.

I’ve played here before, I like the room.

I’m not sure what the comp limits are but you can at least get a comp ticket for enough to pay for a sandwich.  Without a comp poker players get 20% off menu prices.

Espresso is available but you have to walk to the other end of the casino to McGills, the high end steak house.  A double espresso (to go) is $5.  You can probably get a comp ticket to cover that, but since I didn’t know what it was going to cost I didn’t get one  Next time I’ll get a comp ticket before I make the trek (It’s a long walk).  The espresso is pretty good though — lots of creme, tart but not bitter at all.

The 1/2 nolimit game has a max buyin of $200 which I think is a little too small.  And the rakes are high.  I think it’s $5 on $40.  But the games are good.  Saturday any game I was in was a good game.

Higher blind nolimit games don’t have a max buyin (I think, I only played 1/2 Saturday).

A tournament was going on and they spread PLO during tournaments (1/2, 2/5, 5/10, and 5/10/25) but I got there about noon and they hadn’t started any PLO yet so I got into a 1/2 NL HE and just stayed when they called my name for the PLO.

They are having a seniors event Monday and I might drive over for that.

Cherokee Casino in Tulsa has a two week series of poker tournaments coming up in May. The final event will be televised. I’m probably going to go.