What can I say about this poker room? The only reason to give it 2 chips is because it’s the only live poker room in the city of Baton Rouge (geaux tigers). Undoubtedly, there isn’t much of a thrill in the area for poker. Talking to people it seems that especially on weekends people drive to New Orleans to play. The poker room is shielded off by a velvet rope from the other table games and the slots. When you walk onto the ship you enter into the poker room level. So to find the tables are pretty easy. The whole ship smells like a cigarette. You can’t smoke at the tables but you can walk about 10 feet and smoke near a slot machine. It’s nice to play poker and hear all the slots going.

There are only 4 tables in the casino (2 NL 2-5, 2 Limit 4-8). The tables have black felt with black leather padded rails. They use plastic cup holders that stick into the rail. There are no automatic shufflers. The chairs were nothing special. There was no TV’s in the room. It looks like they took out some slots to make up the poker room.

Dealers were nice. They were just doing their job.

The waitresses were around to take drink orders. You could walk about 10 feet and get all the coffee you wanted. I didn’t check in to the food availability.

The waiting list/manager’s booth was always staffed. The list was on a clipboard and written by hand. I was seated with in a reasonable time (5 minutes) at the $2/5 NL table. They were running 2 tables of Limit and 1 table of NL. You could call ahead and get your name on the list.

Didn't even check.