I'm not in Tunica these days, but since I've spent plenty of time in the metropolis, I can report on it by proxy. Here's a report card on the poker rooms of the area. Note that almost all of them feature daily or weekly tournaments so I won't note that feature in these brief reviews.
Gold Strike -- Home of the World Poker Open, formerly of the Jack Binion variety, the Gold Strike poker room is up the escalators from the rest of the casino action, opposite the casino's showroom. The room features close to 20 tables, fit a bit snugly in the available space. $1-$2 and $2-$5 NL games dominate the room, which offers free food service from the tables. The staff is friendly and the games are good. A-
Grand -- The Grand now features a renovated and enlarged tournament area for the WSOP Circuit events, but the general room remains largely unchanged. In addition to the usual no limit and low limit hold'em games, the Grand also offers $10-$20 limit and low limit Omaha games. The action generally isn't as great as it is at Poker Central (i.e. the Gold Strike and Horseshoe) Comps are freely given out, a common occurrence here among the cotton and soybean fields. B
Hollywood -- A favorite of geologists, the low limit games here are filled with elderly rocks. The room even uses the jumbo faced cards for its hard of seeing clientele. At least the room offers sit n gos. D+
Horseshoe -- This used to be the undisputed leader in Tunica poker action, but the distance has narrowed with the improvements across the street at GS and at the Grand. The Horseshoe recently opened a new room in the back of the casino with more space and better facilities though I miss the mural on the wall of the old room. There's plenty of action here and the biggest limit, NL and Omaha games and the free food is best here. A
Sam's Town -- Middle of the road in Tunica poker action, there are decent games here -- better than Hollywood but nothing compared to the top tier rooms. C-
