Poker Road Trips

Mon - Thursday 4pm-2am

Fri  4pm-4am

Sat 2pm - 4pm

Sun 2pm- 2am          

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.

Creek Casino is in South Tulsa, 81st and Riverside. 

I’ve been there before but not in a while.

They have a 9:30 am weekday tournament, $50 buyin.  I’m not sure how much of that is juice, I didn’t even ask.  They managed 4 tables.  Of course I was an early bustout and they didn’t have any side games going (it was almost 11 am when I busted out).

A double espresso is $1.75.

They have a morning drawing if you sign up at the slot card desk (you might need to be over 55, I’m not sure about that) at 11 am.  I didn’t win anything.

I like this room and I’m sure I’ll be going back.  It is usually low stakes — 1/2 no limit and 3/6 limit is pretty much it.

Channel 23 in Tulsa used a feature story on casino security to announce an online forum on casino cheating

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.