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Santa Fe Poker Room Review Last updated: 07/26/07 Sponsored Advertisement Phone: (702) 515-4315 Web: santafe.stationcasinos.com Email: Address: 4949 N Rancho Dr. Editor's Review Santa Fe Poker Room News Santa Fe Poker Room Information Tables: 14 Betting Limits:
Santa Fe Poker Tournaments: Yes
Weekend Wait-Time: Weekdays < 30 minutes Weekends 30 to 60 minutes Smoking Allowed: No Poker Room Rate: No Editor's Review - Santa Fe Poker Room Total Rating: 3.50 Room Quality Rating: 4 Upon seeing the poker room at Santa Fe Station for the first time, you might be impressed by its look and feel. It is a high quality poker room, with mostly classy furnishings. If you have been in other Station Casinos poker rooms, Santa Fe won’t be a surprise. In this regard, it does have a somewhat generic feel. The Santa Fe Poker Room has stone corners at the front of the room, a waist high rail at the entrance, dark red walls, and a very ugly striped carpet to decorate the room. This is one of the most well kept rooms I’ve even played in, but that carpet has got to go. There are six chandeliers/light fixtures hanging from the 20 foot vaulted ceilings. Nine plasma TVs are mounted on the walls surrounding the room and are usually playing the games of choice or anything else late at night that is requested. The Santa Fe poker room has nine pokers tables. The poker tables look like they are brand new. They have red leather rails surrounding, betting lines, and are fitted with auto shufflers. The tables also have a player tracking system that was recently installed, but not yet in use. This is the similar system that is in use at T.I. on the strip. The chairs are above average quality and provide adequate back support. The major downside is the location of the poker room. The Santa Fe poker room is quite a walk, no matter which entrance you come through. It is located near the café on the side of the building that is undergoing an expansion at the time of this writing. The restrooms are also located quite far away from the poker room. They are near the main casino cashier out by the table games. Competition Rating: 3 The players at the Santa Fe Poker Room are a fun bunch to play with. Almost everyone is here for socialization or to chase the Stations Jumbo Bad Beat Jackpot. The play can be summarized as very loose and passive with a few loose aggressive players. Almost all of the players will call down with any pair, draw, or ace high just to see what you have. The average age of the clientele here is 35-55 with a good mix of men and women. You won’t see many of the young guns that you will on the strip, nor will you see some of the retiree type of clientele that you are certain to encounter at poker rooms such as Stardust or the Hilton. There are no mid-to-high limit games spread at the Santa Fe poker room, so you will not encounter any sharks in the water here. Dealer Rating: 4 On my most recent trip to Santa Fe, the dealers were mostly top notch. They were all very personable and friendly. Game pace was generally very good. The only time the games slowed down was when the dealers would chat with some of the players that they knew. Personally, I don’t mind a little bit of chatter from dealers, but carrying on excessive conversations with players can result in dealer errors. Fortunately, I didn’t see any mistakes in the several hours that I played on my most recent trip and this is a huge plus. Cocktail Rating: 3 These girls can get drinks out fast! The service at the Santa Fe Poker Room was top notch. All the women that were serving the poker room were very polite and quite attractive. The outfits they wear are very appropriate and not over the top. You can only order standard run of the mill liquor in the Poker Room at Santa Fe. Sorry guys, no Red Bull is available here, but they do have all the Corona you can drink. Management Rating: 3 Upon entering the Poker Room at Santa Fe, I was greeted with a smile by the manager and asked how my day was going. Then the manager explained to me which games were running and if asked whether I wanted to play in any of them. Once I selected the game of my choice, she asked if I had a players card so I could be tracked and comped for the time played in the room. These are all things I like to see when I walk into a poker room. The manager’s podium is located in the center of the room and they can see everything that is going on in the room from this location. I had a few questions about game choices, limits, rakes, jackpots and they were all answered with complete professionalism. I never witnessed any floor decisions that had to be made. Upon cashing out, the manager asked if I had a good time, referred to me by my first name and took care of cashing me out. This is the type of management that some of the bigger tourist rooms could learn some lessons from. The only downside is management allows the players to play out of racks on the tables. This can hinder the game pace and slow it to a crawl. Comps Rating: 3 Station Casinos have a player’s card that can be used in any poker room on the network. They offer $1 per hour of live play that may be saved up and used at any restaurant in the casino. The Poker Room and Santa Fe Station is on a network of poker rooms all owned by Station casinos. Therefore the Jumbo Bad Beat jackpot may be hit in any room on the network and all the players, playing in cash games at the time of the jackpot being hit, are awarded a portion of the total jackpot. The network wide jackpot starts at $100,000. This brings in a lot of local jackpot chasers and makes for some very loose/passive games as they all want to see the river in hopes of getting a bad beat. The qualifying hands for the bad beat change as the jackpots rises. Station Casinos just finished up their Poker Free Roll Qualifier for any player who puts in 50 hours of live cash game play between April 1st and May 31st. This tournament is held the first weekend of June. They hold this type of tournament twice a year, so keep your eyes out. The tournament, as well as the bad beat jackpot, is funded from the jackpot monies collected when the pots reach $10 in all Texas Holdem games Santa Fe Poker Room News Santa Fe poker room review at All Vegas Poker Date: 06/15/06 Summary:We finally added the Santa Fe poker room to the All Vegas Poker database. Check out the pictures and editor's review. |
Santa Fe Poker Room Player Reviews Summary of Player Reviews: Overall: 3.95 Room Quality: 4.00 Competition: 3.00 Dealer Rating: 4.00 Cocktail Rating: 4.00 Management Rating: 5.00 Comps Rating: 4.00 very nice place to play By: alpaca 01/21/07 Fun Room By: DayTrader1 01/05/07 Trip Reports About Santa Fe Poker Room First B&M Experience 01/01/07, Player: cat219 For Rooms: Santa Fe,Suncoast,Treasure Island (TI), AVP and Local Party 03/08/07, Player: Photoc For Rooms: Santa Fe, Sahara & Santa Fe tournaments, and lots of 1/3NL at Treasure Island!!! 03/25/07, Player: LasVegasMichael For Rooms: Sahara,Santa Fe,Treasure Island (TI), 6/13-6/17 - Five Days, Nine Poker Rooms, Six Tournaments 06/19/08, Player: unklepaddy For Rooms: Golden Nugget,Imperial Palace,Orleans,Palace Station,Sahara,Sam's Town,Santa Fe,Stratosphere,Treasure Island (TI), |
 Entrance to Santa Fe poker room.  Action inside Santa Fe poker room.  Lounge inside Santa Fe poker room.  Management desk inside Santa Fe poker room.  Close up shot of action inside Santa Fe poker room. |
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