Official Hooters Poker Room Website

3 Tables - One of the smallest rooms in town.

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Just got back from a trip to Hooters (on 2/3/2006) to see what the excitement was about.

Let me cut to the chase. The first question everyone wants to know … what are the uniforms like?

Answer: The exact same as the outfits at the Hooters in Columbus, Ohio.

The outfits are among the LEAST revealing of any casino in Las Vegas. Just a tiny bit of cleavage, no butt cheek peakage, just tight t-shirts and orange shorts.

Since that is out of the way …

The place has it’s niche.

Think of the Bellagio, now think of what you would say to someone who asked you to describe the exact opposite of the Bellagio. You would describe Hooters.

People who like Hooters, the resturant, will like this casino. People who don’t … won’t. It basically IS a giant Hooters with some gambling machines and tables thrown in.

You walk in, and there is a large bar. Walk a bit, and you hit the blackjack tables. Walk a bit more, you hit the slots and video poker machines. Walk to the back, there is a huge bar, and off to the side in a teeny tiny room about the size of a bedroom … you have the 3, yes THREE table poker room.

There are two HUGE bars in the casino, one of which is a resturant.

The staff is friendly and welcoming, and the place can be fun if you are in a certain state of mind. The crowd ran the gambit of fratboy types to old perverts desperatly trying to find the hooters. There were almost no non-staff females in the casino. There really isn’t as much eye candy in this Hotel as there is in the Wynn, Gold Coast, Rio, Palms, etc … but if something about women in orange and white really does it for you … then this is your place.

More about the Poker Room:

It’s small. It’s cramped.

I walked in, and they had a full 1/3 No Limit Game going, and one spot open in 3/6 Limit. I took the 3/6 Limit spot. One of the players was not happy that he had to take a 3/6 game, so he blind raised every hand, essentially making it a 6/12 limit game. I only played an hour, but the action was VERY loose, with 80% of the players seeing the flop, and about 4 players on every showdown. People were busting their stack, and re-buying. It wasn’t so much poker as it was just plain gambling.

The floorpeople welcomed me when I came in, and the dealer thanked me for playing when I left. When I cashed out, the cashier asked me if I had fun, and seemed very happy when I replied “Yes”. The poker room staff were extremely pleasant people, and I must say that for pure gambling, I did indeed have fun.

However, with only 3 tables, poker is definitely an after thought. The vibe is very loose, the players very drunk, everybody laughs when they lose as they reach for their wallet for a re-buy. On this day, it was a pure gambling room, and certainly not for the textbook poker player.

Even though there are only 3 poker tables, there were 5 screens (2 plasma, 3 CRT) in the room with various sporting events being shown.

It may be worth a trip to say you played there, but I don’t think the MGM, Luxor, or Mandalay are worried about this room being so close to their turf. It is a small room to have fun in, but not really what we have come to expect from a Vegas poker room.

This is not a place to increase your bankroll via skilled play. It is a place to blow off steam with money that you don’t mind parting with.

If you have the patience to play very tight until you make a hand, and can tolerate people catching their flush or straight on the river after re-raising you, then you might be able to make some decent money.

If poor, pure luck poker playing annoys you … save yourself the frustration, order some buffalo wings, and watch the basketball game instead.