They have arrived with a bang. Silver Sands Poker brings you excellent online poker with their very own software, Ice Gaming. What’s noticeable is the wide variety of limits, the smooth games, and the ever present Silver Sands midas touch that has made them a household favorite for their online casino. Definitely worth a visit. Note – Don’t be confused by media advertising. Silver Sands Poker is marketed by the exclusive African Poker Club on radio and in other media as well.

Software

On Ice Gaming

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Languages

English (They do have great Afrikaans support staff, too).

Play Options

Download Version.

Payment Options

Silver Sands Poker is a multicurrency Poker room, which currently allows you to play in ZAR R (Rands) and AUD $ (Australian Dollars), Internet Bank Transfer, Credit Card, POLi, Cash Deposits.

Poker Games offered:

• 5 Card Stud
• 7 Card Stud
• 7 Card Stud Hi Lo
• Omaha
• Omaha Hi Lo
• Texas Hold’em
• Single Table Tournaments

New player offers at Silver Sands Poker Room

• Rake Bonus – Play 1000 raked hands
• Once you have completed 1000 raked hands, a % will be credited automatically to your poker account
• Raked hands can be completed on any ring game tables.
• There is no wagering requirement to be met once the % has been credited to your Poker account
• The % will only be credited once per account

Game rules and descriptions are available on the Silver Sands Poker site! Silver Sands Poker brings you the most popular poker games, jam packed with features – play for fun on guest tables or play for real money funded from your real Poker Account.

Table Limits

The Software offers you a wide variety of limits. Poker players can choose from as low as 0.50c to as high as R1000 as well as Pot Limit.

New player bonus offer

Rake 1000 qualifying hands and receive a credit to your players account.

Support

24/7 Toll free telephone, or e-mail.

The poker room at the Sands Regency Casino Hotel is named 'Mom's Poker Room'. It's a misnomer. It should be called, 'Grandpa's Poker Room' – filled as it often is with older local guys. Even so, it's a lively and noisy place, located in what may be the casino with the best bargain rooms in Reno.

The Sands is trying hard to keep its small, three-table room vibrant. It's open seven days a week, going until the last game breaks at 1:00 AM or so. They spread two $25 no-limit tournaments every day, at 10:00 AM and 7:00 PM. Players get a great deal. Just $1 of the buy-in goes to the house. These are bounty tournaments as well, with $5 of the buy-in awarded for every player knocked out. They tend to last about two hours.

The standard game that gets going once the morning tournament ends is $3/6 limit hold'em. Other games are spread at the customer's request. But the once-weekly Omaha-8 game, that used to be spread on Tuesday evenings, has been discontinued for lack of interest. No-limit hold'em is sometimes spread on Fridays and Saturdays, with $1/2 blinds and a $300 maximum buy-in.

The house rakes 10% with a modest $3.50 maximum per pot. There's an additional $1 drop that funds a progressive bonus hand promotion for players who hit quads or straight flushes. Players earn $.80/hour with their player's cards, and get free drinks while playing.

The room is unenclosed – more a squared-off space without complete walls. It is somewhat depressing, with low ceilings (with mirrors on them), cheap looking tables, older, somewhat dirty chips, and smoking. The casino, in fact, promotes the room as a smoking room. Not surprisingly, it attracts many smokers – shut out as they are from all of the non-smoking rooms these days.

Sands Casino Poker Room Schedule

I visited on a weekday evening and played some $3/6. I was the only 'non-regular' player, and the only player without gray hair. I was literally called 'Sonny' when I sat down – and I'm 51! Though the room itself was depressing, the players and staff were anything but. They were friendly, warm, and welcoming. And they all seemed to know each other. I felt like I was stopping in on an inviting home game for a bunch of retirees.

The play of these guys was, for the most part, moderately tight and extraordinarily passive. Were it not for me, I don't think the hand would have been raised pre-flop more than 10% of the time. Typically, three or four players saw the flop for $3. The flop was often checked around. It was not a tough game to beat.

Reno is going through a tough time right now, with the slowed economy. Even so, the Sands is trying its best to attract tourists. The casino is now offering an $18/night rate. Though I didn't stay in one of the casino's rooms, other players told me that they were the largest in downtown Reno. The food, at any of four restaurants, is also very reasonably priced. There are 99-cent shrimp cocktails from the Pipeline Lounge. And the steak buffet, at the restaurant eponymously named 'The Steak Buffet', is only $12.99. Not a bad deal.

As a non-smoker, I can't say I'd return to the poker room, though I surely would feel welcome and at ease if I did come back. Without question though, if you're a smoker and like small no-limit tournaments or easy low-limit hold'em action, this is a great spot to play.

Terrible's Sands Regency Casino Hotel

Sands Casino Poker Room Schedule Free

345 North Arlington Ave.

Reno, Nevada

775-348-2200

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