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Quick stop for some poker at Argosy

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.

My Experience at the Grand Victoria

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!

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