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Poker Room Opens at Noon Daily

The Carson Valley Inn's Poker Room is located down the steps and elevators next to the Casino Cashier.  Our spacious poker area features one 7 Card Stud table and 3 Texas Hold'em tables. The room includes TVs for sports viewing, height-adjustable chairs, complimentary beverages and light snacks for players and a daily poker tournament at noon. The entire area is non-smoking.

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No-limit Texas Hold'em tournaments are held every Tuesday and Thursday night at 6 p.m. The buy-in is $20 + $5 ($25 total) with one $20 re-buy. The top 3 - 5 places receive prize money each night. There's also a 500-chip bonus for tournament participants who log an hour of play time between 3 and 6 p.m. The first place finisher in each tournament also receives his or her choice of a CVI "INN the Money" tee shirt, hat or travel mug while they last.

An opening Shootout Hold'em tournament is held every day when the room opens at noon. The buy in is just $16 + $4 ($20 total) and the winner takes the pot!

Ladies-Only Poker Tournaments are every Sunday with sign ups from 5 to 6 p.m., a special Poker Tutorial (like clicking on "Help" for Poker) from 5 to 5:30 p.m., and no-limit Texas Hold'em tournament Play starting at 6 p.m. The $25+$5 entry provides $25 to the prize fund which the top three finishers split each week at 50%, 30% and 20%.

Poker promotions at the Carson Valley Inn include a Free Bonus Payout that provides cash bonus payouts of $200 for any royal flush, $75 for any straight flush and $25 for any four-of–a-kind. The Inn's Bad Beat promotion pays a free $1,000 in cash whenever a hand of "4 of a Kind" or better is beaten by a higher hand. $500 goes to the beaten 4-of-a-kind hand, $300 to the pot winner and the remaining $200 is table split to the remaining players.

The CVI Poker Room features a 7-card stud hi-lo split game every Monday starting at 5:30 p.m. with a $1 - $5 limit. An Omaha hi-lo split game is spread Saturdays starting at 3 p.m. The buy-in is just $20 with a $2 - $6 limit. A 4 X 8 limit Texas Hold'em game is started at 5 p.m. on Wednesdays with just a $40 buy-in.

$1,000 Bad Beat Bonus Hits again at the Carson Valley Inn

Playing a game of Texas Hold'em the last day of May in the Carson Valley Inn poker room, Ken Bryant (Gardnerville, NV) and Geneva Davis (Sonoma, CA) fell into an exciting finish to a hand that paid out for all. With five players still in action after the "flop," a 5-6-7 of spades was showing. The "turn" drew an 8 of clubs and everyone sensed that someone likely had a straight. Ken and Geneva stayed in to battle for the pot. The "river" had another surprise - the 8 of spades came up and, with it, the likelihood of a straight flush. Geneva bet, Ken raised, and the tension elevated. Ken was holding the 4 of spades and knew he would be beaten if Geneva had the 9 of spades. But, he had been a winner before in the Carson Valley Inn's Bad Beat promotion and knew he was in a "can't lose" situation. Meanwhile, Geneva's heart was pounding because she did, in fact, hold the 9 of spades. Geneva called the pot, the players showed their cards and all at the table were winners!

The Inn's $1,000 Bad Beat Payout was distributed three times in 2008 and twice so far in 2009. In all cases $500 went to the holder of the beaten "four-of-a-kind" or better hand, $300 plus the pot went to the hand winner and the remaining $200 was split to the remaining players at the table.

The Inn is just 20 minutes from Lake Tahoe's south shore, and 45 minutes south of Reno. You don't have to go a long way to get away!