Poker Room
The Poker Room is located on a floor below the Main Casino floor. It is ridiculously far away from the Parking Garage as you have to walk through the entire Casino to get to the escalator that takes you downstairs.
The Poker Room has 41 tables. It is divided into three sections. The front is for the regular Cash games. The back has a tournament area, and a High-Limit area. The tables and chairs are nice and comfortable. There is enough space between tables to move around.
The main games they spread daily are $1/$3 NLHE ($300 max) and $3/$6 LHE. Most days, they will also have a $2/$5 NLHE ($1000 max) and $1/$3/$5 PLO ($1000 max). On weekends, they will usually get a $5/$10 NLHE game in the evenings. Omaha-8 will spring up on some days, usually $3/$6 or $5/$10 Limit with a Kill.
The rake is the national standard of 10% $5 max, with $1 for the Bad Beat Jackpot, which is Aces Full of Jacks losing to a Full House. The Bad Beat Jackpot is usually in the $50k - $150k range. Their Bad Beat Jackpot is updated every day on their website. This is a nice touch, and I wish more places would actually use their websites.
The do offer comps to their players, up to $1 per hour. They have the Bravo system that swipes your Player's Card at the tables. They also have a beverage machine right outside the Poker Room that has Coke products.
There is a Food Menu that you can order from the tables. I didn't look at it when I was there, but I know that they have things like Chicken Tenders and some Salads.
The players are a mix of skilled grinders, old nits, and degen gamblers waiting for a bigger game to open. Based on my limited experience, I would say that there are more grinders than the typical Poker Room. But with any $1/$2 or $1/$3 game, it's all about who happens to be sitting there.
They usually have two daily tournaments with some variety in the types of tournament and the buy-ins. Their schedule can be found on their website. The tournaments are very popular, with some of them getting over 100 players. I've played in two of them, and they have a fairly typical quick structure that you would expect to find at a Poker Room. They also have a few tournament series each year that last between two weeks and a month.
Casino
The Hollywood Casino is a two floor set-up. The Main Floor is humongous, with the Table Games down the middle, a high-limit area, and a few small bars and restaurants around the edges. The other floor is downstairs, and contains the Poker Room, some slots, and a little bar near the Poker Room.
They have all the usual table games spread out among the Pit. The table minimums are a little high, with $15 on weeknights and $25 on weekend evenings. The games with flexible odds, like 3-Card Poker, have terrible odds.
Hollywood Casino has a good selection of restaurants. They have a couple of small eateries, a Buffet, and a higher-end Steak House that just opened. The only one that I have really tried was the Buffet. I have to say that it is the best Buffet in this part of the country, including a good variety of dishes, and decent pricing for a casino buffet.
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