TUSCANY POKER ROOM REVIEWED

Tuscany Poker Room.

The Tuscany Suites and Casino located just off the Las Vegas Strip on Flamingo receives high marks on the list of Las Vegas Poker Rooms. The recently opened poker room at the Tuscany offers players unique options to make their visit the best it can be.

The Tuscany Suites and Casino is a pleasant surprise for most first time guest. The all-suite rooms are some of the largest and most comfortable in Las Vegas. The central pool area is filled with plush tropical plants that provide an atmosphere of quite inviting luxury, a great place to shed the stresses of reality.

Locals have long known that the Tuscany is a hidden gem offering outstanding accommodations, great food, a modern full service casino and old Vegas service. The 24/7 coffee shop offers all the standard Las Vegas diner fare along with a great oriental menu. A Mexican restaurant provides the more adventurous hungry guests a full menu of dishes straight out of the desert southwest. Casual, elegant dinning straight out of Tuscany can be had at the Tuscany Gardens; where diners are afforded a menu filled with Italian specialties. The intimate Tuscany Gardens dining room has a view of the tropical gardens surrounding the hotel’s inner open-air atrium.

The casino under the direction of Kevin Beaton, Director of casino Operations, is a softly lit spacious and modern facility with plenty of your favorite slots, video poker and table games. Ample parking is convenient and close to the action or you may take advantage of the free valet service. The Tuscany is within easy walking distance of the Las Vegas strip and many of the major strip properties. Convenient to McCarran International Airport, the Tuscany is an oasis of tranquility on Flamingo Avenue just off the Las Vegas strip. The Tuscany slogan says it all, “Escape to the Tuscany.” The recently opened Tuscany Poker Room is easy to spot in its central location marked by a brilliant red neon ‘Poker Room’ sign. The room currently has 5 tables that will be increasing to eight tables in the very near future. Poker Room Manager, Bob Sanders, a veteran of 28 years in the poker industry, knows what the player wants and has planned his poker room to fill those needs. The Tuscany has a full service sat down bar right in the room. The bar tender comes on duty at 5:00 pm to provide players with free drink service until 2-3:00 am, every night. Tables set up along one wall are loaded with finger foods for players. The food items change through out the day from breakfast items in the morning to sandwiches and treats in the afternoon and evening. The snack table is a twenty-four hour offering located inside the poker room.

The Tuscany Poker Room is currently spreading Hold’em games with $2/4, $4/8 and $6/12 limits. No-limit Hold’em is offered in two varieties: $1-$2 blinds and a $40-$200 buy-in plus a higher limit $2-$5 blinds with a $100-$400 buy-in. In addition to the Hold’em games the room offers an Omaha Hi/Lo game. A daily high hand promotion pays a bonus to players for high hands and two bad beat promos are currently running in the room. The Jackpot bad beat and the House bad beat pay players for losing with specific hands. Details of the high-hand and bad beat jackpots are available in the room.

The Tuscany Poker Room has a daily Hold’em tournament at noon appropriately called ‘Nooners at the Tuscany.’ Entrance into a monthly $2,500 Freeroll Tournament can be had by players for fifteen hours of play during one of the qualifying periods.

The Tuscany poker room comp policy is typical of today’s Las Vegas poker rooms offering players $1 for every hour of play. The comp credits can be used almost everywhere in the Tuscany including the restaurants, hotel and the gift shop. Bob Sanders, Manager of the Tuscany poker room, can be reached by e-mail at: bsanders@tuscanylasvegas.com. The direct telephone line into the poker room is 702.595.0959. Hotel reservations are available at 702.893.8933.