Mardi Gras Casino Poker Room

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Located 2.7 mi (4.3 km) from Ridenour Memorial Park, Mardi Gras Casino & Resort is within a 10-minute drive of Nitro City Park. This 150-room, 4-star resort has conveniences like a casino, an indoor pool, and free in-room WiFi. Free cooked-to-order breakfast is included with your stay and awaits you each morning from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM.

The Mardi Gras is one of many poker rooms located at dog tracks in Florida. It has the distinction of being, in my opinion, the cleanest, neatest, and best illuminated of the rooms. Everything including the cards, the poker felt, the tables, chairs, floors and walls are spic and span. If that matters to you, then this is the place for you.

The 30-table room appeals primarily to that special brand of poker player who especially likes an orderly and well-run game. (I tend to prefer my games a bit wild and tumultuous.) No one gets out of line here. Some players actually seemed to have gotten dressed up to play.

Here are the senior citizens who used to play twice a week at the club house of the retirement village. They like predictability, good behavior, friendly but unobtrusive dealers, and few surprises. In that sense they aren't as much gamblers as card players.

The room accommodates them very well. They have the standard limit and no-limit hold'em games that are spread across Florida poker rooms these days — $1/2 blind no-limit hold'em and $2/4 limit hold'em. They list Omaha and Omaha-8 as games they offer – but I only noticed one Omaha-8 game while I was there on a weekday afternoon. They have regular tournaments. When I was there they were promoting both a $65 Monday and Wednesday night deep-stack tournament, each with $5,000 in starting chips. The difference was that the Monday event had a $13 house fee and the Wednesday event had an extremely low $5 fee. The tournaments started at 6:30 PM, paid out up to 20% of the field, and seemed like a nice way of spending three hours or so. I didn't have the time or I would have played.

They have bad beat jackpots for stud, Omaha, and hold'em. They were all around $10,000.

In addition to the hold'em and Omaha-8, this room was one of only a few in Florida that actually had stud. It was a sedate $1-3 spread-limit game without an ante. That suited the players just fine. I had a chance to talk with them at some length, playing for about an hour.

The players were quite old, by any standards. The dealer told me that the three players sitting next to each other in the 3, 4 and 5 seats had an aggregate age of over 270! At that, they did not seem particularly older than the other players, either.

Everyone was well mannered and seemed to be enjoying this very tight and passive game. Nearly everyone would call for the $1 forced bet from the low card. Someone might bet $1 on fourth street. One or two players would typically call. $1 or $2 would be bet on fifth and sixth. And then the river would often be checked around – especially if it was down to only two players. 'No point betting when it's heads up,' said a nicely attired elderly gentleman in seat 5.

I asked one of the players what percentage of the players were local and how many were tourists. I had to repeat myself very loudly. Eventually, he answered that everyone was local. If I wasn't from around there then I was the only one. He knew everyone else in the room.

The players told me that there was a nice grill upstairs and a decent restaurant downstairs. They thought well of the $18 buffet, but steered me away from the snack bar.

There was a nice touch added outside the track/casino. In the entrance there were a few white wicker chairs and tables for sitting and relaxing. I liked that. Go in, play your poker, then get a drink and enjoy the nice breeze for some conversation or just meditating. That's just what I recommend after every poker session. Some time to relax and reflect on your game.

Wv Casino Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras (At Hollywood Greyhound Track)
831 Federal Highway
Hallandale Beach, FL
877-55-SLOTS

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  • Mardi Gras Casino
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45330600

Contact Information

(304) 776-1000

Location

1 Greyhound Dr
Charleston
WV
25313
38.42
-81.81

RV Parking and Camping Information

Free
It is 'preferred' that you not use jacks, not use slide outs, and not disconnect towed or trailer ???? 2 day limit
Park in wide marked spaces next to fence overlooking race track. Turn to the Right at bottom of the hill as you enter casino area - directly opposed to the Truck parking area on the left.

Casino Information

21
  • Slots
  • Table Games
  • Poker Room
  • Race Book
  • Sports Bar
  • Fast Food
  • Coffee Shop (a basic full service restaurant)

Other Information

RV's are allowed to park overnight.

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User reviews

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We stayed here twice May 2019 and November 2019. On the first trip we asked where to park and were directed to an area along the fence overlooking the track. We followed normal rules {no slide out or generator after 10pm} and had no problems. Food was just ok they don't put a lot of effort into it but it was ok. the dog races were fun to watch while eating and the casino was what I would call a normal size for the typical city casino. { not Vegas }. we enjoyed our stay and returned in November. Checked in with security and had no problems. Large parking area can handle all sizes of MH.
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We tried to stay here in April 2017 and were told we could NOT stay overnight. Asked if we could park our MH and play for a few hours and at first it was OK and I parked where they told us to park. About 15 min later security came out again and asked to leave along with a Class C that had just pulled in. Net of the story, we will NEVER stop there again....
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Not very RV friendly or 'welcoming' ! ! The parking area is fine and actually kind of nice overlooking the race track - but the 'preferred Rules' are silly. After explaining that we needed to unhook to get fuel and grocery and support their local economy and that the living area is Useless without slide outs we were begrudgingly 'allowed' to do these, but the entire 'experience' was not a welcoming one. We stayed only one night then moved to the Free city park in St. Albans with free pwr. (38.388534, -81.824755) The gaming was fine for a small casino -- slots And table games incl. craps.
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