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Poker Palace Poker Room Review Last updated: 06/27/09 Sponsored Advertisement Phone: (702) 649-3799 Web: http://www.pokerpalace.net/ Email: Address: 2757 Las Vegas Blvd North Editor's Review Poker Palace Poker Room News Poker Palace Poker Room Information Tables: 8 Betting Limits:
Poker Palace Poker Tournaments: Yes
Weekend Wait-Time: Cash games generally only run on Friday and Saturday nights, and occasionally Sundays. There is usually little to no wait. A $17 tournament is run every night at 6PM, and usually gets 2 or 3 tables. Players can enter through the first 45 minutes, with no wait whatsoever. Smoking Allowed: No Poker Room Rate: No This is a casino only. No hotel is attached. Editor's Review - Poker Palace Poker Room Total Rating: 1.65 Room Quality Rating: 1 **Last Updated: 06/27/09** Poker Palace is a small casino located in North Las Vegas which offers deal to the bottom $1 Blackjack, $2 breakfast specials, sports book, and a disproportionately large 8 table poker room. For such a low brow, downtrodden property, the poker room is quite expansive, though 5 of the 8 tables get no use whatsoever and one of those 5 is used as a desk for the floor man to sort out tournament registrations. Make no mistake; Poker Palace does not make any effort to pretend to be better than what it truly is: A very low budget locals’ casino with bottom of the barrel table game limits, slots, and a daily poker tournament. The poker room itself is sectioned off from the rest of the casino with a half wall, allowing a separation between the poker room and the sports book. The room is expectedly cluttered, dirty, and dilapidated, much like the entire property. Obviously, none of the tables have autoshufflers, electronic table management systems, or anything remotely high tech. This is the equivalent of a mom and pop card room; with strict hours of operation (room does not open until the 6PM tournament). The room does not have a dedicated cage or even a management podium, really. It has a counter that is attached to the south wall that the floor man uses to sell chips, and basically run the room out of. The daily $17 tournament is really the only reason this room even exists, and the room caters itself to this tournament and these players. The tournament often spawns a single table cash game of either the NLHE or 3/6LHE variety, but that game historically does not last more than a couple hours, and often does not even spread during the week (vying more toward the slightly higher brow weekend crowd). The room is non-smoking, though most players smoke between hands by simply standing up and walking to either end of the room without missing a hand. Aesthetically, there is little that can be said about this room other than the simple bare bones description already given. All furnishings are well worn, the felts are in dying need of replacement, and the chips and cards have seen better days. Approaching the room, it does strike this reviewer that this room is actually more of a room than a few Strip casinos, as it has a proper half wall on two sides, and two permanent walls on the other. Similar to the Rio, this room was carved out of the Sports Book, and still has abandoned sports writer counters against its west wall. It is more of an actual room than a few other poker area type establishments, but due to the obvious dilapidation, hours of operation, and lack of any sort of consistent cash game action, the room quality of Poker Palace is very low. Overall, this is easily the one of the lowest quality card rooms in all of Southern Nevada, whose singular draw is the fact that it offers one of the only <$20 evening NLHE tournaments in all of Las Vegas. This is a casino only, with no attached hotel, which is just as well, as realistically, no tourist of any kind would venture to stay here unless truly desperate. Competition Rating: 4 The competition level in this room is nothing if not consistent. It is the same players, in the same seats, every day, all year. Most are older local players who make it a daily appointment to play this $17 tournament every single day. This should tell you that the competition level is quite beatable, on multiple levels. True, upon approaching the room, it might be a bit intimidating to see that you are the only non-regular in the room, or that the management and dealers all seem expect you to know the drill before you even enter the room, but this intimidation is all in vain, as the quality of play is so poor amongst the regulars that any player with even the slightest knowledge of tournament poker game theory should fare well overall in this room, both in cash and in the daily tournament. The players that call the poker room at Poker Palace home do so for a reason. It is close, cheap, and recreational. There are no professionals or threats of any kind at the card table in this room. Though, since the players are there every day, they are familiar with each others’ betting styles, so watch out for betting patterns and listen for the comments made by others. Easy to pick up reads when many players mumble their holdings to themselves under their breath so they don‘t forget them. Overall, the competition here quite soft and even a little entertaining to play a low buy in tournament alongside. Dealer Rating: 2 The dealers at Poker Palace are older, generally experienced, and more than a little burnt out. Given the extremely low cost of the tournament and occasional cash game, the dealers that work here are basically doing so to pass the time more so than to earn a living. They maintain game control, yell at players when appropriate to do so, and lack modern procedures or commonly accepted proper protocol. This is, after all, Poker Palace, and the clientele is not that demanding when it comes to TDA rules or proper procedure. The dealers here simply do their jobs, and look forward to going home as soon as the tournament ends, a couple hours after it starts. The dealing staff here is as casual and laid back as the customers. No one really cares about anything, other than keeping the players under control, reading the hands as best they can, and pushing pots. It is truly a mom and pop ABC card room that is employed as such. Overall, the dealers at Poker Palace are perfectly fine. They do their jobs, welcome players by name, control the games, and are aware of most basic poker dealing procedures, which is really all you can ask for given the property. Cocktail Rating: 1 The cocktail service at Poker Palace is exactly what you would expect: slow and low quality. The server came around one time during the two hour tournament, and alcohol served was limited to beer and well drinks only. Considering the property and the customers that populate it, this low quality drink service is not surprising at all. The server was older and didn’t appear to speak a lot of English, but still delivered the drinks with a smile. Overall, the cocktail service, much like most other aspects, is not a selling point of this room. Management Rating: 2 The management of the Poker Palace poker room keeps the room running at quite a subpar level in nearly every aspect. The players that enter the room are not really warmly greeted or welcomed and the room is certainly treated like an afterthought in nearly every instance. The room lives and breathes due to its daily tournament, which is a $17 buy in, and usually runs on two tables. Rebuys are allowed, which assist in making the prize pool a bit better than expected. The manager shows up shortly before the tournament is scheduled to start and opens the room, as the room is closed until the tournament. Once the tournament ends, the room shuts down (unless the players want to play a cash game, which is not always the case). The choice to have a room exclusively for a $17 tournament is questionable, and shows that more than anything else, this is a room of convenience set up to bring in a couple extra dollars of revenue each night, and perhaps spread some player money around to other areas like the table games pit, slots or the sports book. Overall, the management of the Poker Palace poker room fits the room nicely. The attitude is gruff and low brow, much like the customers, and the room is staffed for bare bones logistical management only, with no real focus whatsoever on proper customer service or customer handling. It is not designed to be a successful bust poker room. It is designed to be a bottom of the barrel room of convenience, and that is exactly what it is. Comps Rating: 1 As far as this reviewer could tell, this room does not offer any comps of any kind. No food vouchers are available, and there are no jackpots, or players’ card usage. Overall, the singular comp that this room offers is complimentary cocktails, and even those are very hard to come by. Poker Palace Poker Room News Poker Palace Editor Review is now posted! Date: 06/27/09 Summary:Poker Palace, a dive casino located in North Las Vegas, operates a small card room, and now has a proper AVP Editor Review! Poker Palace poker room added to the database! Date: 09/18/08 Summary:In AVP's continuing effort to cover ALL poker rooms in all of the Las Vegas valley, Poker Palace has been added to the main site database! |
Poker Palace Poker Room Player Reviews Summary of Player Reviews: Overall: 0.00 Room Quality: 0.00 Competition: 0.00 Dealer Rating: 0.00 Cocktail Rating: 0.00 Management Rating: 0.00 Comps Rating: 0.00 Trip Reports About Poker Palace Poker Room |
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