I could spend a few hours here.Īrizona has a long tradition of fixed limit games, so $4/8 and $8/16 are popular. There are even plenty of roll-up side tables.

It’s elegant, generously spaced and well-appointed. The 30-table poker room at Lone Butte is on its own down a corridor in the non-smoking building. Let’s get over to the poker, ten minutes from the hotel. If you were much shorter than I am (5’11”) you’d have difficulty getting in and out of it. There is a room safe, but it was apparently added as an afterthought, bolted to the shelf in the clothes closet. There was one interesting feature of my hotel room.

So it’s a great place to stay, modulo the commute to poker. The Wild Horse Pass casino has regular table games, a billion slots, and a handful of restaurants, including a Shula Group steak house and an Asian fusion place called Ling and Louie’s. Ironically, you cannot play HORSE here.īut the hotel is comfy, and has all the amenities you’d want. So you stay at Wild Horse Pass and commute down AZ 202 to get to the poker room at Lone Butte. And there really aren’t any other hotels nearby. You Gila River veterans can start giggling now – I was politely and gently informed that Lone Butte doesn’t have a hotel. I went to the front desk, and asked them to move my reservation over to the hotel at Lone Butte. Only to find out that they’d moved the poker room over to the casino at Lone Butte, a ten-minute drive away. One of them, Wild Horse Pass, has a luxury hotel, so I got a room there, looking forward to walking downstairs and playing poker. The Gila (say “HEE-la”) River Indian Community runs three casinos in Chandler, Arizona, near Phoenix. The first thing I did to get to the poker game was go into the wrong casino. So the centerpiece of this review is a great poker game – specifically a $2/3/6 no-limit hold’em game in which I spent exactly eight hours. Ultimately, the point of a poker room review is to get you into a great card game.

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