Overall, I'm not sure why anyone would play at this poker room over the long run. It does mean that this is most smoke-free poker experience you can have outside of California you don't even have to walk through smoky rooms to get to the poker tables. The fact that the entire casino is now non-smoking is interesting and provides a slightly surreal experience as you walk by banks of slot machines with no billows of smoke issuing forth. There used to be a $5 admission charge to enter the casino, but that is no longer true. Why anyone would wait that long is impossible to say when they could be in Indiana in under an hour. One very busy Friday night in 2006 found only four of the room's tables in action, leading to 3+ hour waiting lists for the games. This means that on a busy weekend evening, the casino limits the number of poker tables in action so that they can accommodate more slot seats. One gaming position is one seat, so each poker table takes up 10 positions - the same as 10 slot machines. There is an unfortunate regulation in Illinois that limits casinos to a set number of 'gaming positions'. There are 7 cash game tables in this spacious and very nicely-appointed room, and about a dozen or so tournament tables. The dealers are generally competent and the floor staff are genial, though sometimes ill-informed - a question about their newly instituted Wednesday tournaments went unanswered by the floorman. The entire casino is non-smoking though the walls don't do much to keep the general din of the slot machines out. Hollywood Casino in Aurora has a large (for Illinois) poker room directly across from the main casino entrance, separated from the main casino floor by 3/4 walls. the 'Hollywood $100,000 Poker Challenge'). Occasional large promotional tournaments (e.g. Minimum qualfying hand is Quad Fives beaten. Try calling ahead for more info.Ī dollar chip Tournaments Jackpots and Promotions īad beat jackpot, currently (April 2018) just over $125,000. At other times, reportedly, the wait can be 2-3 hours. On a recent Saturday night around 10pm, there were open seats at 5/10 and a wait list of 5 people for 10/20. Shuffling: Standard Shufflemaster shuffling machines on all cash game tables, and on none of the tournament tables. Due to IGB rules, games can't be run 3 handed or heads-up. The $6 rake is actually $5+$1, as the sixth dollar (at $60 in the pot) is used for funding promotions. Rake: Rake is quite high: 10% to a max of $6 for 7-10 players, with a $1 bad beat jackpot drop taken on the deal.

$10/$20 ($5/$10 blinds) - Spread on Tuesday and Wednesday.

$10/$20 ($5/$10 blinds) - Spread on Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday.

$20/$40 ($10/$20 blinds) - Spread only on Tuesday and Thursday.

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