Hi, I'm staying at Temptation from 21-28th September and wondered if there is a casino that has a card table or somewhere I can play once or twice in the week? I know that may sound boring to some people but am not sure I can go a whole week without a game. Low or high stakes would be agreeable. Thanks. Tregaskis
I dont know of any, but I brought my own cards and chips last time and we had several people we met that eventually met up and played in the week!
There are no "legal" casinos where you can play poker, however many poker players do come to Cancun to play poker. Where do they play? Well there are illegal, but reputable underground games. I had a phone number of a guy that regularly played, but lost the number when my cell phone was stolen.
There is actually a new 'casino' on Tulum where the old Novedades office was, I went there last Saturday. The place is huge and has obviously had some serious cash spent on it. There are slots downstairs but blackjack, poker and roulette upstairs. I say 'casino' in inverted commas because (presumably to get round the laws) there are no live dealers. Instead the games are sophisticated electronic affairs where the dealer is a computer but you do play against other real people, sat in a circle around the 'table'. The system is basically you buy credits (chips) at a croupier (300 pesos min) and then enter your number into the machine, and receive another ticket when you cash out. The technology is like the I phone where you use a touch sensitive screen to pick up, look at and play your cards etc. The place does have quite an authentic real casino atmsophere, it's not like the place at Kukulcan Mall at all. There are a couple of bars and a restaurant, free drinks for players and lots of pretty hostesses. It was pretty full on Saturday.
