El Dorado Casino Reno Poker Room

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El Dorado Casino Reno Poker Room Average ratng: 9,1/10 3782 votes

Poker is America's most popular card game and the Peppermill features Reno's most comfortable and exciting Poker Room! Our Poker Room has been named best Poker Room by Reno-Gazette Journal for the past 7 years, and voted one of the “Top 25 in the USA” by Poker Digest for very good reason! Eldorado Reno Experience timeless luxury and friendly, personal service in the heart of Downtown Reno. Escape to the Eldorado Resort Casino, named 'Best Rooms and Suites' by Casino Player Magazine. Choose from our nine award-winning Reno restaurants, including the world-renowned La Strada and Roxy.

Ashley Adams

The Eldorado Casino in Reno is home to a great poker room, particularly for cash games. Nearly all week long the casino spreads a small $1/2 no-limit hold'em game which has a $60 min and $300 max buy-in. The casino also runs a $3/5 game on the weekends with a $100 min and no max, which occasionally gets spread during the week as well.

  • Booked a room at Eldorado Casino through expedia. Mask are required in the casino and must be covering your nose and mouth while in public but may be off when eating, drinking and smoking. The front desk and casino personnel will have mask available if you need one.
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  • Eldorado Reno Details In May, 2017, the Eldorado Poker Room movee next door to the Silver Legacy Resorts.

The room also hosts a constant $3/6 limit hold'em game with a full kill. It was a tight affair on the two occasions I visited, both times taking place during the week. The players and poker room manager all assured me that it livened up at night and on the weekends.

The Eldorado's poker room is also one of the only rooms in the Reno-Sparks-Lake Tahoe-Carson City area that spreads a seven-card stud game on a regular basis. Admittedly, with $1/5 limits, it's a relatively low-stakes limit game, yet it runs nearly all the time. I found the game to be very tight and passive, especially after I was able to raise a few times by $5 and on each occasion everyone folded, winning me the $1 bring-in in this ante-less game.

There are tournaments too, though not as many as some of the other rooms in the area. You will find a nice $20 tournament (with two $20 rebuys) on Tuesday nights and a $40 affair on Wednesdays with a $20 bounty for every player you knock out. Both start at 6pm and both are structured to give the players a decent amount of time, with play lasting between three and four hours for the winners. The house rakes $5 from the buy-in, though the rebuys and add-ons are not raked. There's also the typical $5 additional buy for extra chips at the start of the tournament that everyone generally takes, with all the $5 buys going to the dealers.

The poker room is kind of dark, with awful chip racks but decent cards and chips. The décor struck me at the time as something out of the 1970s, but I later learned that the room was created in 1998. If you're an interior designer, you could have a field day making suggestions. But for me, the seats were comfortable, the game was well run, the dealers were attentive and efficient, and I had a good time.

The games are raked reasonably with a $4 maximum in the lower limit games which is taken out more slowly than normal: $1 at $15, $2 at $30, $3 at $45, and $4 at $100. So, on large pots, the rake is 4% or less. At the higher-stakes games the rake is even lower, with the maximum being $3.

There's also a $1 comp, per hour, for all live players with a using their free player's card. The room will be running promotions over the winter, according to the poker room manager, Margie Heintz. She claims to be planning freerolls and free jackets for players who put in 50 hours or so, as well as other bonuses for frequent players not yet decided upon.

Currently, the house has a high hand bonus and bad beat jackpot which is funded with an additional $1 drop from the pot. There's no room rate for poker players, but rates at the Eldorado were only $39 when I checked, with the likelihood of reductions over the winter.

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All in all, I would certainly recommend this room. There's not a lot of glitz or glamour to it, but there are solid games of all types. Margie runs the room very professionally and has been working in the poker industry since 1974; clearly she knows what she's doing. I plan to stop in and play a while the next time I visit Reno.

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Eldorado Hotel Casino

345 N. Virginia St.

Reno, NV 89501

El Dorado Casino Reno Poker Room Schedule

1-800-777-5325

1-775-786-5700

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