While in Indiana we decided to stop at Argosy before we headed home. I must say this is one of the biggest if not the biggest Riverboat Casino's in Indiana. There were two Poker Room's to my knowledge, a High Roller room and a room for the smaller cash games. I stopped into the smaller cash game and bought into the 3/6Limit game. I believe there were 8-10 tables in this room, with 3 of them playing the 3/6Limit, and 3 of them playing the 1/3NL. The rest were being used for a tournament they were having. The room seemed a little crammed with all of the tables, but once you were seated you were comfortable. The dealers were extremely nice and helpful, and they used two decks with an automatic shuffler. They had a T.V. on the wall that told you were you were on the wait list, and what games were open, being played and if there were seats available. If you were on the list the computer kept you there for an hour, this way if you left the Casino or didn't hear your name being called, then you could come back and would get the next spot. The Poker Cashier cage was outside of the room, this was kind of an inconvenience for people that had to re-buy.

Overall this was a great Casino, they have a lot of offer when it comes to poker and I would recommend anybody to take a visit and play some poker.

The Poker Room at the Grand Victoria Casino was a comfortable setting, reminded me of playing a home game. The dealers were extremely nice and even more helpful when asked questions. They were very well trained in my opinion and kept up with the action in the game. The dealers shuffled their own cards, and made sure any dead cards were exposed to the table and if a card had a crease or looked like it was marked was put back in the pile and a new deck was used. A lot of the players at the tables were regulars that play all of the time at the casino. They were extremely nice as well and for the most part all of them played fairly decent. One guy at the table played every hand, no matter what it was. The bad thing about him is when you didn't think he had anything, he did.

At the time of my visit they had four of the eight tables running, one 3/6 Limit, two 1/3NL, and one 5/10NL game. The only downfall I had about the place was later in the night there was a wait list of about 7 or 8 people on the 3/6 Limit game enough to open a new table. I don't know if maybe they didn't have an extra dealer or just didn't feel the need to open a new table, but they did not open an extra table. We were five and six on the list and after about 2 hours we decided to go to bed and get up in the morning to play.

Overall, I loved the Casino it was a very relaxed and laid back atmosphere, and I will be going back to play poker!

Please before you read this blog, understand that I am NOT dissing online poker play or saying that it is a bad thing. I love online poker and play it A LOT. This legislation that passed isn’t going to damper Online Play either, so again remember, I love online play, just giving my .02.

Online Poker!!! WOW that is all I can say, just WOW!!! I played my first hand ever in an online poker room, and I haven’t stopped playing poker since. Online Poker has its pro's and con's (and I don't mean professionals and convicts, which it probably has as well :) ). Online poker is becoming one of the most talked about and easiest ways to play poker. Think about it, you wake up, get a cup of coffee, and sit down still in your PJ's and play some poker. You don't have to get dressed, you don't have to leave the house and drive to the casino, and it works out perfectly.

Online poker is great for anybody, whether you have been playing the game for years or just started today. You can play with "fake" money to learn the game, or deposit real money to press your luck. They offer tournaments out the ying yang, anything from cheap seats into main events, to free rolls, to even high dollar tournaments.

All of that sounds great right.....it can be, and quite frankly it is. Let’s say you flipped on the T.V. last night and saw the WSOP main event and thought, "man I want to play poker seems easy enough." Your right the game of poker is easy to learn, and play. So you think to yourself....ok all of my buddies play, but I don't want to walk into a home game, lay $10 or $20 on the line and look like a chump when I don't have a clue what I'm doing. So you search online for poker rooms, or you find one on a commercial and download the software.

Be careful!!!! There are two types of online poker players, the kind that care about the game and the one’s who could care less and to me seem like they are just on the site to be a pest, or as Mike the Mouth would say “Donkeys”! Online poker in my opinion is the best way to learn how to play the game. You can get good advice from other players; learn how to play your hand, and how the game works from a whole. My only problem with online play is as I mentioned above, players who don’t care. While playing online I have seen way to many people with the best hands get beat, by crap, and I mean crap! I have seen pocket Kings, Queen’s, Ace’s, Big Slick and other great card get beat by 3 9, 5 8, 2, 10. I mean really, in real cash games, or tournaments, you probably wouldn’t play those cards….unless you were chip leader by a massive amount and were just seeing what you could pull off.

I have also seen tournaments; mostly free rolls that have the same outcome. My first free roll I played I got dealt A K on my first hand, the guy before me went all in….I thought about it for a moment and really didn’t want to get beat, especially by a bad beat. Well before my timer went off I called, he ended up having something stupid like 3 8. I’m glad I called him because I ended up getting two pair and sent him packing; well he probably went to another table and did the same thing. It really upsets me to see play like this in tourneys, because they are limited to a certain amount of players, and people who do this, are just wasting space for others that want to play, or learn the game. Also, the fact that it takes time to register and then wait on the tournament to start, so why come in after waiting all that time and getting lucky to get a spot, just to waste your time as well as others.

All in all I love online play, great way to learn, and practice. Just beware of the Donkeys!