Official Harrah’s Poker Room Website

3475 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas, NV 89109

(800) 392-9002

Comments:

Visually, this is kind of a cool room. I don’t know if it is the prettiest, but it is the most …. different.

In this room, you will always know that you are in Harrah’s and will never, ever confuse it with another room.

Located in it’s own glass enclosed room, it looks like the poker equivalent of an acid trip. There are TV’s all over the wall. These TV’s run the gambit from brand new plasma’s to old school 1980’s tube CRT’s. In between and around the TV’s you have neon lights in no particular pattern, and on the back wall you have some kind of Andy-Warhol type of art work. It’s really hard to describe. You kind of have to see it.

I’m not sure exactly what they were going for here. It’s like nobody could decide what to do so they threw a bunch of ideas together and said “Ah, whatever, leave it like that”. It is definitely weird, and unique. But let’s face it, very very few poker rooms can claim to be unique in any way. Minor variations of “Table, Chair, and TV” is the standard Vegas poker room. But this one has a bit more of something. Not sure what, but something.

I rather like the room. It’s calm and laid back.

But, the competition is largely local and/or rock-like. Not a whole lot of roid rage here from the dudes drinking Red Bull and Vodka. Pretty Calm. A solid 40’s-50’s crowd with some extremes interspersed here and there. The 1/2 NL game is solid, if uneventful. And people are very pleasant.

Chairs are fine. Table is fine. Nothing notable.

I don’t play here often, but not because I don’t like it, I just don’t make it to Harrah’s very often.

But when I do, I always stop in to play a bit.

It’s a very fine “Not quite Venetian, but poker is poker” kind of room.

Play it at least once, just to soak in the visuals.

If you are a loose tourist, sit down, look around the room for 60 seconds, drop half your chips on the table and leave quickly.

Any longer than that, and your whole stack will belong to that nice old lady at the end of the table who looks like your mother, but will check-raise you without mercy.

You won’t make any money here without at least some patience and skill. You will only get called if someone has cards that have a good chance of beating you.