El Dorado Casino Reno Poker Room
Founded in 1973 in Reno, Eldorado Resort is a company that owns and runs 7 casinos throughout the US, in 5 States. Find 3 casinos in Nevada, 1 in Louisiana, 1 in Ohio and 1 in Pennsylvania. The group aims to offer a unique gaming experience to its visitors. Eldorado has a crowd-pleasing 1,200 slots including some new games you do not find everywhere, like Mad Men, Tree of Eternal Fortune, Batman Classic and Sinbad. Check their in-house progressive jackpot slots games as well as the hugely popular MegaBucks, Money Madness and Wheel of Fortune. Current jackpot amounts are posted on their website. Our luxury poker room raises the stakes to a whole new rank for poker players of every level. Check out the hottest 24/7 action around while you indulge in the unmatched suite of luxuries that will definitely keep you in the game.
- Great poker room. Derek Steele June 28, 2010. Been here 10+ times. Eldorado resort casino reno. 11th floor reno. 11th floor eldorado reno.
- For live poker, Reno doesn't have that many rooms left. For live no-limit cash games there are even fewer. This power room rules the downtown. With Circus Circus and Harrah's closing their doors, no other room consistently runs a limit game and no other room downtown runs a no limit game.
The Eldorado Casino in Reno is home to a great poker room, particularly for cash games. Nearly all week long the casino spreads a small $1/2 no-limit hold'em game which has a $60 min and $300 max buy-in. The casino also runs a $3/5 game on the weekends with a $100 min and no max, which occasionally gets spread during the week as well.
The room also hosts a constant $3/6 limit hold'em game with a full kill. It was a tight affair on the two occasions I visited, both times taking place during the week. The players and poker room manager all assured me that it livened up at night and on the weekends.
The Eldorado's poker room is also one of the only rooms in the Reno-Sparks-Lake Tahoe-Carson City area that spreads a seven-card stud game on a regular basis. Admittedly, with $1/5 limits, it's a relatively low-stakes limit game, yet it runs nearly all the time. I found the game to be very tight and passive, especially after I was able to raise a few times by $5 and on each occasion everyone folded, winning me the $1 bring-in in this ante-less game.
There are tournaments too, though not as many as some of the other rooms in the area. You will find a nice $20 tournament (with two $20 rebuys) on Tuesday nights and a $40 affair on Wednesdays with a $20 bounty for every player you knock out. Both start at 6pm and both are structured to give the players a decent amount of time, with play lasting between three and four hours for the winners. The house rakes $5 from the buy-in, though the rebuys and add-ons are not raked. There's also the typical $5 additional buy for extra chips at the start of the tournament that everyone generally takes, with all the $5 buys going to the dealers.
The poker room is kind of dark, with awful chip racks but decent cards and chips. The décor struck me at the time as something out of the 1970s, but I later learned that the room was created in 1998. If you're an interior designer, you could have a field day making suggestions. But for me, the seats were comfortable, the game was well run, the dealers were attentive and efficient, and I had a good time.
The games are raked reasonably with a $4 maximum in the lower limit games which is taken out more slowly than normal: $1 at $15, $2 at $30, $3 at $45, and $4 at $100. So, on large pots, the rake is 4% or less. At the higher-stakes games the rake is even lower, with the maximum being $3.
There's also a $1 comp, per hour, for all live players with a using their free player's card. The room will be running promotions over the winter, according to the poker room manager, Margie Heintz. She claims to be planning freerolls and free jackets for players who put in 50 hours or so, as well as other bonuses for frequent players not yet decided upon.
Currently, the house has a high hand bonus and bad beat jackpot which is funded with an additional $1 drop from the pot. There's no room rate for poker players, but rates at the Eldorado were only $39 when I checked, with the likelihood of reductions over the winter.
All in all, I would certainly recommend this room. There's not a lot of glitz or glamour to it, but there are solid games of all types. Margie runs the room very professionally and has been working in the poker industry since 1974; clearly she knows what she's doing. I plan to stop in and play a while the next time I visit Reno.
Eldorado Hotel Casino
345 N. Virginia St.
Reno, NV 89501
1-800-777-5325
1-775-786-5700
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Live casino poker
The Eldorado Casino in Reno is home to a great poker room, particularly for cash games. Nearly all week long the casino spreads a small $1/2 no-limit hold'em game which has a $60 min and $300 max buy-in. The casino also runs a $3/5 game on the weekends with a $100 min and no max, which occasionally gets spread during the week as well.
The room also hosts a constant $3/6 limit hold'em game with a full kill. It was a tight affair on the two occasions I visited, both times taking place during the week. The players and poker room manager all assured me that it livened up at night and on the weekends.
The Eldorado's poker room is also one of the only rooms in the Reno-Sparks-Lake Tahoe-Carson City area that spreads a seven-card stud game on a regular basis. Admittedly, with $1/5 limits, it's a relatively low-stakes limit game, yet it runs nearly all the time. I found the game to be very tight and passive, especially after I was able to raise a few times by $5 and on each occasion everyone folded, winning me the $1 bring-in in this ante-less game.
There are tournaments too, though not as many as some of the other rooms in the area. You will find a nice $20 tournament (with two $20 rebuys) on Tuesday nights and a $40 affair on Wednesdays with a $20 bounty for every player you knock out. Both start at 6pm and both are structured to give the players a decent amount of time, with play lasting between three and four hours for the winners. The house rakes $5 from the buy-in, though the rebuys and add-ons are not raked. There's also the typical $5 additional buy for extra chips at the start of the tournament that everyone generally takes, with all the $5 buys going to the dealers.
The poker room is kind of dark, with awful chip racks but decent cards and chips. The décor struck me at the time as something out of the 1970s, but I later learned that the room was created in 1998. If you're an interior designer, you could have a field day making suggestions. But for me, the seats were comfortable, the game was well run, the dealers were attentive and efficient, and I had a good time.
The games are raked reasonably with a $4 maximum in the lower limit games which is taken out more slowly than normal: $1 at $15, $2 at $30, $3 at $45, and $4 at $100. So, on large pots, the rake is 4% or less. At the higher-stakes games the rake is even lower, with the maximum being $3.
There's also a $1 comp, per hour, for all live players with a using their free player's card. The room will be running promotions over the winter, according to the poker room manager, Margie Heintz. She claims to be planning freerolls and free jackets for players who put in 50 hours or so, as well as other bonuses for frequent players not yet decided upon.
El Dorado Casino Reno Poker Room Events
Currently, the house has a high hand bonus and bad beat jackpot which is funded with an additional $1 drop from the pot. There's no room rate for poker players, but rates at the Eldorado were only $39 when I checked, with the likelihood of reductions over the winter.
All in all, I would certainly recommend this room. There's not a lot of glitz or glamour to it, but there are solid games of all types. Margie runs the room very professionally and has been working in the poker industry since 1974; clearly she knows what she's doing. I plan to stop in and play a while the next time I visit Reno.
Eldorado Hotel Casino
345 N. Virginia St.
Reno, NV 89501
El Dorado Casino Reno Poker Room Schedule
1-800-777-5325
El Dorado Casino Reno Poker Room Reviews
1-775-786-5700
El Dorado Casino Reno Poker Room News
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