This casino is about an hour and a half drive from my house and I have made many trips to the then Hollywood Casino for some live action poker. This was the first poker room that I ever played in. I chose to play at the Hollywood Casinos’ poker room, because it was the only casino near me that had a poker room before the “Moneymaker Effect” came about. I have not been to play poker in this poker room since the Horseshoe Casino in Bossier City opened a poker room. I am a ‘Shoe guy

The newly renovated poker room had 10+ poker tables and spread many different types of games. I saw $1-$5 7-Stud, $4-$8 Limit, $10-$20 Limit, $20-$40 Limit, $1-$2 NL and $2-$5 NL. The larger limit games would always be running on the weekend and the smaller games were very soft. I never tested the waters in the $20-$40 game, but I played the $10-$20 game a couple of times and I was a winner in the game, but I was focused more on limit poker then than I am now.

The dealers and poker room mangers are competent and they keep the games full and going fast. I am not certain, but I think that they have installed automatic shufflers in the tables, which is always a plus

They had a foutain drink machine in the room, so you if you wanted to get up and get your own fountain drinks you could.

A couple of years ago the Hollywood Casino in Shreveport, LA was the only place in north Louisiana that had a legal poker game and boy was it rocking!!! The poker room was drawing people from all over, but mostly people from Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. There were times when you would have to wait for 2-3 hours for a seat in a game, this was before they allowed you to call in to the poker room and put your name on the waiting list. Once they started doing the call in waiting list everything went a lot smoother in my opinion.

The poker room does offer a poker room rate of $69 during the week (Monday-Thursday), but I have never stayed there. I am pretty certain that they comp you $1/Hr you play for food, so you can play a good 8 hrs and at least you getting something free to eat

If you're gonna be in Shreveport/Bossier City, cross the river to the Horseshoe.

There were 15 tables in total. The tables did have betting lines and leather felts which I liked. The leather was "dirty" so the cards stuck to the table, but it looked nice, though impractical. The betting lines did make for simplifying the game, and I'm sure that I would get used to them in time. The tables were at a definite lack for automatic shufflers. I never realized how much this would matter to me, but it is a definite plus to any card room to have them. There was nothing special about the chairs, they were plain plain plain. There were only 3 flat screens in the poker room and none in any great locations. The pads were not very thick and the cupholders were metal devices that slipped under the pads. The thing that I liked least about the room was that it was so close to the slot machines that it was too loud and the smoking section was much too close.

Once we got someone to seat us I only noticed one thing that I didn't like about the dealing and it was only one dealer, so I am not sure if it is an El Dorado thing or if the dealer just didn't know what she was doing. At one point there were 2 forced Big Blinds and a forced small blind before the flop. Other than this, the staff seemed knowledgable and courteous.

The waitresses were around to take drink orders, but we didn't look into the availability of food.

The waiting list/ manager's booth was only partially manned as there was a $200 tourney going on. The list itself was on a clipboard and written by hand. We were seated pretty quickly at our $1/2NL table as there were plenty of empty seats available. The tables were spaced out very well and the room itself was quite large. If you want to call ahead to get your name on the list, the number is (318) 220-5274.

There was a poker player hotel room rate posted on the wall. It's $65 per night Sunday through Thursday. A player and a dealer conversed about their bad beat jackpot, but I didn't notice anything about it posted anywhere. I believe that they said it was if Aces full of Tens or better.