[toc]With the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in full swing in Nevada, other poker news can fall through the cracks. One such story is the new poker room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
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On June 1, the property moved its popular poker room from its longtime location outside in Seminole Paradise to a new location inside the casino. The 36-table poker room is now located inside the ballrooms. The room will host all cash games and daily tournaments.
The easiest access to the new poker room is through the Seminole Way garage.
According to a press release from Seminole Gaming, patrons using the Seminole Way garage will have “easy, covered, air-conditioned access to the poker area.”
New poker room closer to tournament action
The new location is also closer to where the Seminole Hard Rock hosts major poker tournaments. The casino hosts several tournament series, like the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open and the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.
Larry Frank, general manager of gaming operations for Seminole Gaming, spoke about the new room:
“In maintaining the quality experience of poker play that the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino poker room is known for, we’re excited about the new poker space and are committed to continuing to offer some of the region’s best promotions and tournaments. The new room’s proximity to our major tournament venue is expected to help amplify our cash action during the upcoming Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open and all subsequent series.”
One of those subsequent series will be a WSOP Circuit stop.
Seminole Gaming recently announced a partnership with the WSOP too. Seminole Hard Rock will host a WSOPC series during the upcoming 2017/2018 WSOP Circuit season. The stop at the Seminole Hard Rock gets started on September 21 and runs through October 2, 2017.
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As part of the deal, Seminole Casino Coconut Creek will also host a WSOPC series in February of 2018.
Games and amenities in the new room
The new 24/7 poker room will feature a mixture of games, including:
- limit and no-limit Texas hold’em
- Omaha hi-lo
- Seven-card stud
In addition to the cash games and the major tournaments, Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood also has one of the most extensive daily tournament schedules in the area.
Additionally, the room features large screen TVs. Moreover, according to the press release:
“Food service is available and players may order from a limited menu serviced through in-room dining, as well as a grab-and-go kiosk located at the entrance featuring extensive hot and cold items.”
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The poker room on the second floor of the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino has a barren and isolated feel to it. For those looking for a glittering, casino-like atmosphere, it's a disappointment. There is no foot traffic or gambling anywhere near the poker room. But for those looking for poker without any other distractions this might be just the spot.
The poker is lively, with 15 tables. Four were going full blast at 8:00 on a recent Tuesday morning. This is a great room for low-stakes no-limit hold'em. There's some limit hold'em action as well – principally $2/4. There's never stud – though they offer it officially. And there's an occasional $2/4 Omaha-8 game. The room offers $55 sit-'n'-goes, though those seldom go off. And unlike many of the other rooms in south and central Florida, there are never any multi-table tournaments.
Based solely on my three hours of morning play, the action games are the $1/2 and $2/5 no-limit games. As with all Florida games, as per state law, they have a $100 maximum buy-in. (They even offer a $5/5 blind game as well – with that crazy maximum, as well – though none was going while I played.)
This is a bare-bones room, with grungy chairs, a few small-screened televisions on the wall, and dirty felt. The carpet was a nauseating orange color, and very dirty. There are no windows. I got the feeling that the management of the casino gives poker a low priority, tucked away as the room is away from all the action. Even so, the poker room management tries to make the best of a bad situation. They try to get things going early by offering all players a free breakfast from 7:00 – 10:00 AM. The prices for food are exceptionally inexpensive even without this freebie. There's an all-you-can-eat breakfast for $4.95 and a lunch buffet for $7.95. Single breakfast offerings are $2 or $3.
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They also keep the rake low by delaying it until the pot reaches at least $10. That may seem like a small concession, but I can tell you that the quick rake of $1 that some other poker rooms have even when the pot is uncontested pre-flop, greatly increases the difficulty of beating a tight game.
When I played there was a player-funded bad beat jackpot and high hand bonus. The jackpot stood at $57,000 – which might explain the plethora of no-action rocks I had at my table. The high hand bonus was $500.
In the early hours that I played, the game was very loose and passive. Hands were typically unraised pre-flop. On the few occasions when I decided to raise I got very little action. I was told that if I wanted action I should move to $2/5. So I did.
Sure enough, in the hour or so that I played $2/5 I saw many players going all in – catching and not catching – and often laughing at whatever the result might be. It was a game I truly enjoyed – and profited from – at least for a while. When my $2/5 table got a little too lively for me, with players routinely going all in preflop, I moved back to what had become a very juicy $1/2 game. I left considerably ahead for the session.
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This is the only room in the Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach area that's open early in the day. I got the sense that many regular players came here first (maybe for the free breakfast) and then as the day wore on, they made their way to the bigger rooms like the Hard Rock in Hollywood. If I lived down here on the southeast coast of Florida, I might well do the same thing.
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5550 NW 40th Street
Coconut Creek, FL 33073
866-2CASINO or 954-977-6700
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