Poker in Southern Indiana - 4 Poker Rooms

ARGOSY - LAWRENCEBURG
This casino has been open for 10 years and is the closest to Cincinnatti Ohio. The poker room opened 6 months ago and has taken most of the players from the next two listed rooms --with good reason.
Nice new facility with 15 tables - 10 in play on a Thursday evening. Four tables of 1-3 NL, and one table of 2-5NL. Four tables of 3-6, and one table of 6-12. Bigger games and Omaha on weekends.
A big surprise! Both the manager and the day shift supervisor (Robert and Terry) used to work in similar positions at the Gold Strike in Tunica. Much asking of; "What are YOU doing here?"
I liked this room. Got to play 6-12 while watching the Cards beat the Mets for the National League Championship too. This is only a 5 hour drive from Springfield and could easily be base for a Cincinnatti Reds game.

GRAND VICTORIA - RISING SUN
10 miles down the river road, and its a ghost town. A nice separate 7 table poker room. Completely empty on a Thursday afternoon - no players, no dealer, no floorman. Had a "sign up list" though. 2 names on it.

BELTERRA - BELTERRA
Another 20 miles down the river road. A beautiful facility out in the middle of nowhere. A 12 table poker room with 3 in play on a Friday afternoon. 1-2NL, 2-4 and 3-6. The dealers we saw were excellent and the players were pitiful.

CAESARS - ELIZABETH/NEW ALBANY
Over the bridge from Louisville, KY. Another set of huge new buildings out in the woods. Then a walkway over the highway and you step onto the boat. Biggest damn gambling boat I've ever seen. A 30 table poker room everyday. Supplemented by another 20+ tables for the WSOP circuit event. Poker room has ists own cashier, snack bar, and bathrooms.
Big lists for a dozen different games. NL Holdem was 1-2, 2-5, 5-10 and an interest list for higher. Limit Holdem was 2-4-4-8, 4-8, 5-10 w/K, 10-20 w/K, 20-40. PLO at some different limits, and 30-60 stud. Interest lists for Omaha/8 and mixed game.
Tournaments running at noon, another at 3, megasats later, and single table sats running most of the time. Cash games were pretty squeezed out. Big waiting lists from 10am to midnight. And the staff seemed to have great difficulty making the transition from breaking a tourney table thru all the details to starting a new cash game table.
One funny story - althought I have seen this a lot in the last year or two. Dozen different games on the list. 150 names on the 1-2 NL list. Couple of young guys get in line, look at the list, and tell the brush; "I wanna play 1-2 No Limit". She writes their name on the bottom and asks them if they want on list for any other games. They stare dumbfounded; "Duh? Huh?"