Senior Poker Tour at Cherokee, West Siloam Springs, OK It’s midnight and I just returned to my room at the Cherokee Casino in West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma, after cashing in today’s ladies. May 23, 2016 Thinking of a Seniors Event? Tips to Make it Fun and Profitable. Was just held at what is now my closest casino, Harrah's Cherokee. In Las Vegas and chronicled his life in poker on the.
| Harrah's Cherokee | |
|---|---|
| Location | Whittier, North Carolina |
| Address | 777 Casino Drive |
| Opening date | November 1997 |
| No. of rooms | 1,108 rooms, 107 suites |
| Notable restaurants | Ruth's Chris Steak House Brio Tuscan Gille Dunkin Donuts Express Chef's Stage Buffet Johnny Rockets Lobby Cafe Noodle Bar Selu Graden Cafe UNO Pizza Earl of Sandwich |
| Casino type | Indian casino |
| Owner | Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians |
| Operating license holder | Caesars Entertainment |
| Previous names | Cherokee Tribal Casino |
| Coordinates | 35°28′11″N83°18′17″W / 35.46983°N 83.304807°WCoordinates: 35°28′11″N83°18′17″W / 35.46983°N 83.304807°W |
| Website | harrahscherokee.com |
Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort is a casino and hotel on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, North Carolina. It is owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and operated by Caesars Entertainment. It is located on the site of the former Frontier Land theme park. It is one of two casinos in North Carolina. A sister property, Harrah's Cherokee Valley River Casino in Murphy, North Carolina opened on September 28, 2015.
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History[edit]
Harrah's Cherokee opened in November 1997 with video poker as the only gaming option. This followed the opening of a tribal bingo parlor in the early 1990s, which was quite profitable and led to calls for a casino. The casino came after several years of discord between the State of North Carolina and the Eastern Cherokees. Governor Jim Hunt resisted the casino, but the state was forced to enter into an agreement with tribal authorities by the federal courts. Since then, the tribe has used its casino revenues to build a new high school, a hospital, and public housing, and to upgrade public safety services on the reservation, such as police, fire and EMS. Part of the casino's revenue is also distributed directly to the Cherokee population, in a form of basic income.[1] The casino is also credited with opening the door for gambling in North Carolina. The casino also heralded a relaxation of alcohol laws in the area, with liquor-by-the-drink being legalized in nearby Bryson City, Sylva, and Cherokee itself.[citation needed]
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Features and design[edit]
Hotel[edit]
Harrah's Cherokee has three hotel towers (Creek Tower, Soco Tower, and the Mountain Tower) with a total of 1,108 rooms, making Harrah's Cherokee the largest hotel in North Carolina.
Casino[edit]
Since the tribe's compact with North Carolina restricts the types of gaming permitted, most of the games offered have significant differences with those found in other casinos. The compact with North Carolina requires games to have an element of skill. For most of the video slot machines, this means that after an initial spin of the reels, the player is allowed to lock selected reels in place and spin again, holding reels with valuable symbols in hopes of matching them up with winning symbols on the second spin. (This differs from 'regular' slot machines, in which the reels usually spin only once after credits are played, although video poker everywhere allows players to hold cards before the second spin.)
The casino now has converted many of their slot machines to 'Cherokee Raffle Reels,' which require the player to insert their Total Rewards slot card into the machine before playing. This raffle entry is considered to be the second chance to win required by law, and has allowed the casino to phase out many of the 'lock-and-roll' style machines for traditional video and reel slot machines.[2]
The tribe reached an agreement with the state on November 25, 2011, to allow live cards at Harrah's Cherokee.[3] The casino began introducing live table games in 2012. As of summer 2014, there are over 100 table games.
The casino has a non-smoking poker room with 20 tables. No-limit hold'em tournaments are run daily, including larger buy-in deep stack tourneys on the weekends. The casino also regularly hosts World Series of Poker circuit events in the Events Center which feature a variety of tournaments and concurrent cash games.
Amenities[edit]
The Harrah's Cherokee complex includes a 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m2) conference center, a 3,000-seat events center, the Essence Lounge, a workout room, a lobby cafe, and a food court with four restaurants, Chef's Stage Buffet, Ruth's Chris Steak House, and BRIO Tuscan Grille. Harrah's Cherokee also has an indoor pool that is open year round as well as an outdoor pool open during the summer months. The outdoor pool also features its own bar and food service with a unique menu. Harrah's Cherokee also features the UltraStar Multi-Tainment center, a bowling complex including arcade, restaurant, entertainment stage, and multiple bars. This complex has 24 lanes for bowling, 16 standard and 8 VIP style.
Alcohol sales[edit]
On June 5, 2009, alcohol sales at the casino were approved by the tribe. Alcohol is served from 7 a.m. until 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon until 2 a.m. on Sunday. The first alcoholic beverage was served on December 29, 2009, at 5 p.m.[4] Other than the casino, there are no bars in the city of Cherokee.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/01/opinion/sutter-basic-income/
- ^'Raffle Reels at Harrah's Cherokee. North Carolina poker, Casino Games, Table Games, Casino Gambling, Slots and more'. Harrahs.com. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
- ^'Cherokee casino gets card dealers'. Asheville Citizen Times. November 28, 2011.
- ^[1]Archived July 17, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
External links[edit]
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The World Series of Poker has released the schedule for the 2018-2019 WSOP Circuit’s fifteenth season. It will begin August 2nd at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina and will conclude when the qualifiers meet in the Global Casino Championship, which awards a WSOP gold bracelet. All told, there will be 28 stops on the tour, a record for the WSOP Circuit.
There were a few changes made to the upcoming season. Perhaps most noticeably, the traditional $365 buy-in for the ring events will now be $400. Most of the price points have been altered to speed up cashouts and increase prize pools. The “primary” price points (the most common ones), will be $250, $400, and $600. The Main Events will be $1,700. Players will begin with 50 percent more starting chips in the $400 and $1,700 events.
Just like at the World Series of Poker, the WSOP Circuit will introduce Big Blind Ante tournaments for some ring events. The Big Blind Ante was tested on the Circuit last year. In these events, when the tournament reaches the ante stage, the player in the big blind will pay the ante for everyone at the table.
“For our fifteenth season, the time was right to take a hard look at our offering and refreshing it to give players a better experience all around,” said WSOP Tournament Director Jack Effel in a press release. “Everyone loves more starting chips, and we think things like the Big Blind Ante and larger prize pools will be big hits for all players.”
The complete 2018-2019 WSOP Circuit schedule follows is below.
- August 2-13, 2018 – Harrah’s Cherokee (North Carolina)
- August 16-27, 2018 – Foxwoods Resort Casino (Connecticut)
- September 6-17, 2018 – Thunder Valley Casino (Sacramento area, California)
- September 13-24, 2018 – Seminole Casino Coconut Creek (Coconut Creek, Florida)
- September 27 – October 8, 2018 – Horseshoe Southern Indiana (Louisville)
- October 11-22, 2018 – Horseshoe Hammond (Chicago)
- October 25 – November 5, 2018 – Harveys Lake Tahoe (Reno/Tahoe Nevada)
- October 31 – November 12, 2018 – Choctaw Durant (Dallas/Oklahoma)
- November 16–27, 2018 – Planet Hollywood (Las Vegas Strip)
- November 22 – December 3, 2018 – Harrah’s Cherokee (North Carolina)
- December 1-12, 2018 – The Bicycle Casino (Los Angeles)
- December 6-17, 2018 – IP Casino Resort Spa (Biloxi, Mississippi)
- January 2-14, 2019 – Choctaw Durant (Dallas/Oklahoma)
- January 10-21, 2019 – Thunder Valley Casino (Sacramento area, California)
- January 17-28, 2019 – Horseshoe Tunica (Mississippi)
- January 31 – February 11, 2019 – Potawatomi (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- February 7–18, 2019 – Seminole Casino Coconut Creek (Coconut Creek, Florida)
- February 15-26, 2019 – Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino (Las Vegas)
- February 21 – March 4, 2019 – Horseshoe Hammond (Chicago)
- February 28 – March 11, 2019 – TBA
- March 3-14, 2019 – The Bicycle Casino (Los Angeles)
- March 7 – 18, 2019 – Harrah’s Atlantic City (New Jersey)
- March 14-25, 2019 – Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa (Oklahoma)
- March 21 – April 1, 2019 – Bally’s (Las Vegas Strip)
- March 28 – April 8, 2019 – Horseshoe Council Bluffs (Omaha/Iowa)
- April 10-22, 2019 – Harrah’s Cherokee (North Carolina)
- April 25 – May 5, 2019 – Horseshoe Tunica (Mississippi)
- May 9-20, 2019 – Harrah’s New Orleans (Louisiana)
- TBD – $1 million+ Global Casino Championship
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