Posted by Johnnymac 7:39 PM
I am back from New Orleans and have a bunch of random things to share from the weekend. I don't know if I will tie it all into one big post or just fire snippets or what, but I have a lot of material that I will try and get posted in the near future.

The short trip report is that Harrah's New Orleans probably have some of the best weekend action I have seen in a long time. This is because the joint is full of either ESPN kids or ignorant cajuns. In fact, I would even say the action is better than Bellagio or Mirage because all three places have guys looking to "gamble" and take a shot, but in New Orleans they are also more likely to be intoxicated, too. That and not as few pros or old retired rocks as in Vegas, either. Harrah's is also definitely better than smaller rooms like those in Lake Charles or even locally here in Houston because there are plenty of new and inexperienced players relative to people who play 20-30 hours a week and thus are less likely to still play bad but make less dumb mistakes.

As far as the room goes, they turned the old crappy shoebox-esque poker room into a new steakhouse and built a HUGE brand new room on the casino floor with probably 35 poker tables and a variety of different games and limits. I'll touch more on the games in a later post, but one thing to point out is that they are still playing Omaha Hi only and had I not been interested in shearing the sheep at 6-12 and 10-20 holdem I would have been very happy to play Hi Omaha instead.

I did have one problem with the apparently widespread abuse among the locals of the "see the hand" rule, but that doesn't come close to making the games not worth playing. I will touch on the whole STH rule later, too. Lot's of good stuff there that I will save for a separate post.

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