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Harrah's Louisiana Downs Poker Room

Overview

Part of Louisiana Downs

The nearby Horseshoe - Bossier City has a spacious, 12-table poker room that spreads both NL, limit hold'em and pot limit Omaha.  The NL consists mostly of 1/3 $300 max buy-in and 2/5 $300 max buy-in.  The 'Shoe has a house rule which lets players buy-in for up to 50% of the chips held by the chip leader at the table.

 

The wait list is automated; players can call up to 2 hours ahead to get on the list for their desired game.  Weekend wait times can be a hour or more for NL games; call ahead!

 

Tables and chairs (fixed leg) are in excellent shape with auto-shufflers and drink holders on all the tables.  Food and drink service is available table-side.  Special mention to chicken tenders, 'tater logs and club sandwich.

 

The Horseshoe offers jackpots, splash pots and other giveaways.  Players are also comped on their Total Rewards card at a rate of $1/hour.  Please see the link at the top-right of the page under items of interest for full details on each giveaway as well as the weekly tournament information.

Click here for a virtual tour of the 'Shoe's poker room!

Special thanks to TwoRags reps Landlord79 and BJJIII for help with this review.

 

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Stats

Poker tables:12
Poker Open 24/7:Yes
Self parking:Yes
Casino sq/ft:12,855 sq/ft
Convention sq/ft:20,000 sq/ft
Poker games available: Limit Holdem , No Limit Holdem , Pot Limit Omaha
Hotels: SpringHill Suites Shreveport-Bossier City/Louisiana Downs
Rates: $109.00 - $119.00

Address

Louisiana Downs
8000 E Texas St, Bossier City, LA 71111, USA

Contact

Available 24/7 Yes
Phone (318) 741-7901
Website Website

Hours of Operation

Open 24/7

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Guest Posted on May 12th, 2008
Two 4/8 sessions on 5-10 and 5-11 for just under 4 hours total.
Saturday bought in for $100 then got felted after about and hour. Rebought for another $100 and ended up taking away $338 and hour later.
Sunday bought in just before the 10am splash the pot for $100. was down to my last few chips after about 45 mins again. That time A3o in the BB. Flopped a set of 3s. Rivered an A for the boat to bring be back to live.
Later had 74 spades in the BB, flop 8 9 10 all spades. 6 of spades on the turn, two just kept betting and then calling my raise. River was trash and two check callers to me. Put me well on the plus side for the day and I stayed there. Picked up after hour and 45 minutes with a $33 profit.
To go with about $125 profit from El Dorado the night before had almost $300 profit for the weekend.

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Guest Posted on March 25th, 2008
I was very fortunate to have Good Friday off from my job, so you can guess how I spent my day off. That’s right. I made a trip to the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html">'Shoe</a>.
I arrived at the 'Shoe around noon and when I walked into the room I was shocked to see that the room was rocking. I went directly to the brush and checked in with them. I then went and scouted the tables and I found out why the room was banging so early in the afternoon. They had a $75+$40+$40 unlimited rebuys for the first 90 minutes tourney going on. I was disappointed that I didn’t get to participate, because there was some fishy play from what I witnessed. They tourney had about 60 runners and first place was $4K. I am already making plans to make that tourney on July 4th. That is the next Friday that I will be off from work.
My wife was coming over to Bossier to meet up with me after she got off work so we could enjoy a night together alone. I knew I didn’t have long to play and when it took me 30 minutes to get seated in a $1-$3NL game I was kind of bummed, but I passed the time donking around in the 4-8 Limit game. I vowed the last time I dumped $300 playing limit poker without winning a hand that I would never play limit again. I played about 2 orbits and lost $8. The only playable hand I had was KK in the SB when it folded to me and I chopped the blinds with the guy next to me.
I was finally seated in my NL game and I noticed 2 regs. They were older men. Pretty much ABC players. You know the kind I am talking about if you play live poker. All you have to do is raise to ISO them and CBET. If they don’t have anything they fold. If they give you any resistance, give it up. The rest of the table was Weak Passive.
I was up about $40 when the first interesting hand came up. I was on the button and follow 4 limpers with 9[c]T[d]. The flop was 7[h]7[d]8[c]. Checks to me and I semi bluff $10 into the pot. I get two callers. The turn was a 6[d]. BINGO. I filled my straight and when it checked to me again I bet $20 and much to my surprise I got one caller on my right. 3[d] on the river and he checks to me again. I make a value bet of $25 and then the guy min raises me!!! I pay him off thinking he went runner runner flush on me, but he turns over 7[s]8[h]. Well played buddy. Way to maximize your big hands.
I chipped up to +$20 when the following hand happens. A short stack from UTG raises All-In to $6 every folds to a weak passive player on the button who calls. I sweat A[d]K[c] from the SB and I bump it to $26 straight. Button calls and the flop reveals an 8-9-4r. I notice that the button checks out of turn and I fire $40 at the pot. He calls. Uh ohhhh. 2[d] on the turn and I fire another $85 at the pot, but this time he folds. Whewwwww. I thought I learned my lesson the last time I tried to bluff in a live game. LOL. I drag the nice sidepot, but the All-In raiser turns over 4-4 for a set. Oh well. After the hand I told the guy I knew he didn’t have a strong hand because he checked out of turn. I made $60 off of him, so the coaching lesson wasn’t free for him. I was proud of myself that I picked up on him checking out of turn and I actually followed through with a 2 barrell bluff with AK. He said he J-T for the straight draw.
A couple of orbits go by and my wife calls me and says that she is getting into Bossier. I cash out my $105 win and call it a day. I promptly hand my winnings over to her. Women are the rake guys!!! Don’t forget it.
Good Luck Guys!!!!

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Guest Posted on March 13th, 2008
Meh day @ the Shoe.
Last Saturday fellow tworagger <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tworags.com/home/landlord79">Landlord79</a> and I headed over to our home casino to play some live poker. Our regular live game for now is $1-$3NL. We headed out around 9am and arrived at <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.tworags.com/HorseshoeBossierCity.html">Horseshoe-Bossier City</a> poker room and we were immediately sat at different NL tables. I joined my table which consisted of a mixture of weak tight old men and calling stations. The first hand at my table three people limped and I sweated AKo and I bumped it to $25 straight and an old man to my left cold called and every one else folded. I CBET $40 on a K high flop and took it down. You can’t win them all unless you win the first one right? So I am up about $50 when the following hand comes up. The old man on my direct right who was pretty much fit or fold bumped it to $23 with a couple of limpers and I squeezed AK[d] this time and I 3bet to $60 straight and when it got back to him he announced raise and I quickly mucked my hand face-up before the guy could even get an amount out of his mouth. I got some weird looks from a lot of the players who thought that AKs is the nutz. The old man showed AA. One more for the good guys!!!
I am about even when I sweat AKo once again from LP and I punished the 3 limpers and make it $25 straight. The guy on my left, who had me covered, kept playing every time I would raise and I knew this was going to be a problem unless I made hands vs him. We miss flops to right? Ok, so the guy cold calls me preflop once again. I make a CBET to $40 on the K[d]-4[c]-Q[d]flop, but this time he calls. The turn was 9[s] and that made a straight possible for people can’t fold JT preflop. I cant give this guy a free card if he is drawing, so I cut out 12 redbirds and was going to see what he was going to do. He called my turn bet pretty quick and now I am getting pretty committed by SPR standards. The river was an offsuit ace and I made a $100 bet and got looked up by A8[d]. I can’t believe that guy looked me, but I will take it. I rake in a nice pot and as I am putting the details into my voice recorder I get a few questions about why I am recording my hands. I reveal that I am taking notes on hands that I play during live poker sessions, so that I can do trip reports for a website I represent, tworags.com obviously. I even passed out a couple of business cards. Edmond don’t worry, I am pimping the site, even though it keeps me from getting action. From then on I was referred to newcomers to the table as a pro, but I kept telling them that I just play poker as a hobby.
I chip up to up about $300 and follow limpers from MP with 88. The flop is 4-A-A rainbow and the 4 players check it around. The 3[s]hits the turn and I make a bad play when a old man leads and I try and take it from him with a nice stiff raise, but when he announced a reraise I was toast and quickly mucked my hand. I was so mad at myself for this spewtarded play. I just dumped close to $80 on a bluff. Everyone knows you don’t bluff live donks. I shrug it off and get back to my A game.
Landlord has made it over to my table and he is unsuccessfully trying to recover some of his losses and we are shooting the bull. Live poker is so much more fun when you can sweat flops and turns with your buddies isn’t it? A few hands after the 88 debacle a couple of loose guys limp from MP position and I look down at AQo in the SB and I make it $26 total and the first limper calls and the second preflop limper shoves the rest of his stack $94 into the pot and when it gets back to me I reraise to $200 to isolate the All-In player. The original limper folds and I can’t a win coin flip vs 99. That hand pretty much made my day. It wasn’t too much longer that Landlord and I had enough for one day and we decided to call it a night.
Even though I only cashed out a small win ($70), I enjoyed my time at one of my favorite poker rooms in the South. My wife and I are making another trip over to the Shoe on Good Friday, but I don’t know how much poker I will be able to get in, with all the shopping she will want to do. I am not sure when Landlord and I will make another trip, but I can’t wait.

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