Hooters Poker Room Review

Las Vegas Room Review: Hooters Hotel and Casino
By Loki Luchs

Since the poker revolution, every casino has made an attempt to gain patrons by opening a room. The problem is that if a poker room isn't cared about by the hotel, they'd be better off without one. The perfect example of this is at Hooters hotel and casino. It has one of the smallest rooms on the strip. The room was shoved into a small corner in by the player's club, as though there was nothing else that they could have put there. How they can have only two tables and still not enough room is beyond me. With only two tables, they would have done better to have taken one of the hotel rooms and set a table up in there.

The room runs 1/2 no limit and 2/4 limit, when the games get together. Their free-rolls are weekly, so you only need 10 hours total to get into the Sunday free-roll. In fact, they have "double hours" between 10 am and 3 pm, so you could only play five hours and get entered into it. That's assuming that there's a game between those hours, which there rarely is. The free-roll is less than a grand in payout, split three ways, so it doesn't really make it worth the time.

The one thing that I did think was okay was that they have pretty good low-cost tournaments. For players that little experience, but would like to play in a small tournament, you can't beat $29. This is a great way for noobies to get some practice and still stand a chance at making the money in a small game. The overall payout for these tournaments is naturally small, so it's not a great way for a serious player to make a lot of money, but it's a pretty good way for new players to stand a shot at placing.

Hooters tries to have some of the other perks that the bigger rooms have, for instance, like high hand payouts. However, they would do much better to just skip those, because they can't even afford a progress amount on those hands. The payout for four of a kind is $25-flat rate. If you play eight hours a day, five days a week, you'll average quads once or twice a week. If they're taking a dollar out of every pot to pay for that, you're losing twice that amount in the rake alone. A straight flush pays out $50, flat. I've only had 3 straight flushes in my life, and I've played an easy 100K hands in the last decade. The Royal Flush, the holiest of hands, the one hand I've never had in all my years of playing, pays out $100.

The staff at Hooters is nice, but they don't have the experience of dealers in big rooms. Their inexperience shows when it comes to handling situations on hand discrepancies or rule violations, which is an hourly event in any big room. The managers were found to be a bit over-bearing, as they seemed desperate for every player to dive into the action. This tactic almost chased me right out of the room.

In the end, the only reason to go to this room is to test out your basic tournament skills for as little money as possible. The Hooter's casino would be wise to take the room out and put in another series of slot machines or a few more tables for the wings bar. My overall rating is a very generous D-. Go across the street to the Excalibur.

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