I live pretty close to HR..they have a really good poker room. Daily tournaments and strong cash games. Bj is there. Nothing special but gets the job done.
Very nice restaurant selection and club/ nightlife on par with Miami... Check out the council oak steakhouse..also have good strip clubs within a few miles if your Into that... You should check out tootsies
Very nice restaurant selection and club/ nightlife on par with Miami... Check out the council oak steakhouse..also have good strip clubs within a few miles if your Into that... You should check out tootsies
Been there a few times, it's really Not all that !
But if you are looking for a Gambling Fix, it's better than Nothing. and Probably the better of the Casinos down there.
When I was there a few weeks ago, was told that they had a Big Job Fair to hire 2,000 people. Not sure if it was for Just the Mari Gras Casino, or all of them. But they are Buliding......
Also hard Craps will be coming ( Maybe ) Next Year. That would be All Me, if they do.
restaurants are Good... one of my Favs , cafe martorano is there. Even though I prefer the Main one on Oakland Park Blvd.
But if you are looking for a Gambling Fix, it's better than Nothing. and Probably the better of the Casinos down there.
When I was there a few weeks ago, was told that they had a Big Job Fair to hire 2,000 people. Not sure if it was for Just the Mari Gras Casino, or all of them. But they are Buliding......
Also hard Craps will be coming ( Maybe ) Next Year. That would be All Me, if they do.
restaurants are Good... one of my Favs , cafe martorano is there. Even though I prefer the Main one on Oakland Park Blvd.
Hard Rock has good entertainment, shops, restaurants, and clubs, free parking, huge,
Tooties, is big, just off 441, basically up the street from Hard Rock, 10-15 minute drive, alot of women, and VIP rooms, big
, alot of implants.
Scarlett has nice girls too, very loud music, 20 bucks to get in, free parking, (tootsies also),
How ever a 15 minute drive on US1, (biscayne blvd) is Daves Gold, geez $5 to park, $10 to get in, dances are 20/25$, taking a girl to VIP room?, $125 for the bar and the girls are what ever price you negotiate.
Tooties, is big, just off 441, basically up the street from Hard Rock, 10-15 minute drive, alot of women, and VIP rooms, big
, alot of implants. Scarlett has nice girls too, very loud music, 20 bucks to get in, free parking, (tootsies also),
How ever a 15 minute drive on US1, (biscayne blvd) is Daves Gold, geez $5 to park, $10 to get in, dances are 20/25$, taking a girl to VIP room?, $125 for the bar and the girls are what ever price you negotiate.
Very solid advice. Hollywood HR has a pretty decent casino, marginal hotel and so-so pool. The pool is nothing like other high end HR properties, if that is what you come to expect. Council Oak steakhouse is really really good.
The casino is cool, the main BJ21 tables are center stage for the walk by all the hotties on their way to the nightclubs. Nightclubs are OK, they actually get some famous DJ's once in a while if you're into keeping track of that type of thing.
As for the strip bars, been to all of them. In fact I was in Scarlets this last wkend with my gf and it hasn't lost a beat after all these years. I prefer Tootsies though. Place is immense and the girls are great. A lot of variety too, big, little, latina, Russian, whatever your preference is, they got it. Make sure you spend the extra couple of bucks and go upstairs into the VIP area. Girls leave u alone until you're ready, buy a bottle if you have to; its worth it. When you're ready for the back room, its on if you know what I mean.
Of course, SBeach is only 30 minutes away if you really want to do it up. Check out LIV and bring your checkbook. Music and girls are insane.
GL and tell us how u do...
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/fl-hard-rock-poker-open-080713-20130806,0,6516612.story
[h=1]Hard Rock kicks off big poker series[/h][h=2]First of 33 events, including one with $10 million in prize money, starts Thursday[/h]
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By Nick Sortal, Staff writer7:09 p.m. EDT, August 6, 2013
By flashing $10 million in cash, the largest purse ever guaranteed for a poker tournament, officials at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood expect more than 2,000 players to battle for hours of flops, turns and rivers.
But they're also expecting them to visit the complex's restaurants, hotels and shops during the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, a series of 33 tournaments that will begin Thursday and run through Aug. 29.
"There'll be a few thousand people coming to this, and they're not coming with $100 in their pocket," says Larry Mullin, who became the Seminoles' COO in February and announced the series two months later.
The 500-room Hard Rock Hotel is sold out, but the tournament's website, SeminoleHardRockPokerOpen.com, directs guests to 10 nearby partner hotels. Mullin says players are coming from all over the world, and most will stay awhile.
"We've had a huge response from people outside of South Florida, and it's the quality of the customer that we're encouraged about," he says.
The culmination of the three-week poker fest is a tournament that guarantees $10 million in prize money, to be split among the top 15 percent of players. The series also will include a tournament that costs $100,000 to enter. We're not talking about penny poker here.
The profit casinos make on poker is small when compared with slots, blackjack and other table games played against the house. Card rooms pull about 5 percent of a player's entry fees, and the other 95 percent goes into a prize pool.
Mullin says the $10 million tournament was created to lure tourists to the Hard Rock.
"Gaming is everywhere in the world," he says. "You need to be offering those type of things for people willing to make a decision to get on a plane and come here."
Nicki E. Grossman, president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale<!--blurb soflanews-topic-link-ad-PLGEO100100403070000 not found--> Convention & Visitors Bureau, is encouraged. "This is a new visitor to Greater Fort Lauderdale, and we sure are happy to see them — especially in August," she said.
Although poker players are notoriously late to commit, Matt Waxman, a 28-year-old from Parkland who has been ranked as high as No. 7 in the world, says most of the top players will come for one reason: All the fish.
"Any poker player that's a professional will be eager to get into this tournament, because to fill those spots, you're going to have a lot of amateurs," Waxman says. "It's impossible to have a hard tournament when there are that many people in it."
Often, a whole family will travel to a poker tournament, says Scott Long, publisher of Ante Up Poker Media, a Florida company that publishes Ante Up Magazine and operates Ante Up Poker Cruises, one of which is booked for Miami this fall.
"I do think tourism officials, and even some casino general managers, greatly underestimate the economic impact of a major poker tournament series," he adds. "These players are not one-issue spenders. Their spend extends to hotels, food and entertainment, both inside the casino as well as throughout the region where the tournament is held."
West Palm Beach has prospered the past three Februarys, when the World Series of Poker Circuit Series comes to the Palm Beach Kennel Club, says Dennis Grady, CEO of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches.
"It's good, significant business that you want to put on the calendar each year," he says. "This is the kind of group you want to grow and nurture."
He says players like coming to South Florida in February, and West Palm Beach ranks third among entries on the 22-city WSOP Circuit Tour.
"And they're not afraid to spend money," Grady says. "Any time you're throwing more people into restaurants and hotels of the caliber these people are … What others spend on a night out, this group spends on a tip to a valet."
Whether or not the Hard Rock and surrounding businesses will make a profit on the Poker Open, it is creating invaluable buzz, giving the impression that the casino is the place to play.
"We've been here awhile [since 2007], but we want to make sure tourism is an important part of what people think of when they come here, between the restaurants, the hotels and the gaming," Mullin says. "Our bet is we first have a quality facility. You want to make sure you're always reaching out as hard as you can. With an event like this, you're able to reach around the world."
Copyright © 2013, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
[h=1]Hard Rock kicks off big poker series[/h][h=2]First of 33 events, including one with $10 million in prize money, starts Thursday[/h]
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By Nick Sortal, Staff writer7:09 p.m. EDT, August 6, 2013
By flashing $10 million in cash, the largest purse ever guaranteed for a poker tournament, officials at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood expect more than 2,000 players to battle for hours of flops, turns and rivers.
But they're also expecting them to visit the complex's restaurants, hotels and shops during the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open, a series of 33 tournaments that will begin Thursday and run through Aug. 29.
"There'll be a few thousand people coming to this, and they're not coming with $100 in their pocket," says Larry Mullin, who became the Seminoles' COO in February and announced the series two months later.
The 500-room Hard Rock Hotel is sold out, but the tournament's website, SeminoleHardRockPokerOpen.com, directs guests to 10 nearby partner hotels. Mullin says players are coming from all over the world, and most will stay awhile.
"We've had a huge response from people outside of South Florida, and it's the quality of the customer that we're encouraged about," he says.
The culmination of the three-week poker fest is a tournament that guarantees $10 million in prize money, to be split among the top 15 percent of players. The series also will include a tournament that costs $100,000 to enter. We're not talking about penny poker here.
The profit casinos make on poker is small when compared with slots, blackjack and other table games played against the house. Card rooms pull about 5 percent of a player's entry fees, and the other 95 percent goes into a prize pool.
Mullin says the $10 million tournament was created to lure tourists to the Hard Rock.
"Gaming is everywhere in the world," he says. "You need to be offering those type of things for people willing to make a decision to get on a plane and come here."
Nicki E. Grossman, president of the Greater Fort Lauderdale<!--blurb soflanews-topic-link-ad-PLGEO100100403070000 not found--> Convention & Visitors Bureau, is encouraged. "This is a new visitor to Greater Fort Lauderdale, and we sure are happy to see them — especially in August," she said.
Although poker players are notoriously late to commit, Matt Waxman, a 28-year-old from Parkland who has been ranked as high as No. 7 in the world, says most of the top players will come for one reason: All the fish.
"Any poker player that's a professional will be eager to get into this tournament, because to fill those spots, you're going to have a lot of amateurs," Waxman says. "It's impossible to have a hard tournament when there are that many people in it."
Often, a whole family will travel to a poker tournament, says Scott Long, publisher of Ante Up Poker Media, a Florida company that publishes Ante Up Magazine and operates Ante Up Poker Cruises, one of which is booked for Miami this fall.
"I do think tourism officials, and even some casino general managers, greatly underestimate the economic impact of a major poker tournament series," he adds. "These players are not one-issue spenders. Their spend extends to hotels, food and entertainment, both inside the casino as well as throughout the region where the tournament is held."
West Palm Beach has prospered the past three Februarys, when the World Series of Poker Circuit Series comes to the Palm Beach Kennel Club, says Dennis Grady, CEO of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches.
"It's good, significant business that you want to put on the calendar each year," he says. "This is the kind of group you want to grow and nurture."
He says players like coming to South Florida in February, and West Palm Beach ranks third among entries on the 22-city WSOP Circuit Tour.
"And they're not afraid to spend money," Grady says. "Any time you're throwing more people into restaurants and hotels of the caliber these people are … What others spend on a night out, this group spends on a tip to a valet."
Whether or not the Hard Rock and surrounding businesses will make a profit on the Poker Open, it is creating invaluable buzz, giving the impression that the casino is the place to play.
"We've been here awhile [since 2007], but we want to make sure tourism is an important part of what people think of when they come here, between the restaurants, the hotels and the gaming," Mullin says. "Our bet is we first have a quality facility. You want to make sure you're always reaching out as hard as you can. With an event like this, you're able to reach around the world."
Copyright © 2013, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
