It's not exactly in the middle of the ghetto. Not bad for a Wednesday afternoon.įinally, I think it is laughable that you are warning people not to go to Hialeah late at night.

BTW, it too, currently has more games running than Hard Rock (14 vs 12). As for other casinos in 'Miami,' you may have been thinking about Casino Jai Alai (which has closed its poker room) and/or The Miccosukee Resort, which although it has a Miami address, is on the edge of the Everglades about 20 miles west of downtown.Īlthough not in Miami, another room you failed to mention was The Big Easy Poker Room at the Mardi Gras Casino, which is only a mile or so up the road from Gulfstream. For people who like to play in the mornings and afternoons, it's also the only place south of Hard Rock that has multiple 2/5NL games running throughout the day. Interestingly, it currently has more games running right now than Hard Rock (13 vs 12). Then you are close to being back in Sarasota.Ĭuriously, you mentioned Magic City, which ironically is the only casino within the City of Miami.

They are much smaller and less choice of games but the players were worse also IMO. The Hard Rock is the obvious choice in Tampa but there are 2 smaller rooms that I liked better. The action was so so when I was there.Įither way, I would head over to Tampa from Jacksonville or Palm Beach. Its just a big open space with poker tables.

It feels like it was converted from an old grocery store. I played at Best Bet a couple times and its kind of meh. I would personally skip Best Bet in Jacksonville because its way out of the way if you are looping back around to Tampa which is what I would do. It sounds stupid, but its fun and the players are terrible and its a very profitable (but super high variance) game. They have a crazy $5/$10 game with $100-$300 buy in. Heading North from there you can hit the Palm Beach Kennel Club. There's a couple rooms in Miami but I dont know much about them. Theres also smaller rooms at GulfStream and Magic City but you wont be missing anything if you skip them. Hialeah has some sick 1/2 PLO action but its in a bad area that I wouldnt want to be in late into the night. The biggest are the Hard Rock and the Isle at Pompano Park (look on Bravo for what games are running). Then head east across Alligator Alley to the Ft. Its a hole in the wall dump but the action is pretty good. Go South from Sarasota to Naples and play at the Naples/Ft.Myers Greyhound Racing & Poker. Depending on how much time you have, I might do something like this:

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