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TGT Poker and Racebook
755 E Waters Ave, Tampa, FL 33604, United States
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So
Review №1

Absolutely horrible experience. I played in a tournament there about two weeks ago and believe me I will never go back. This is a small back door poker room where mostly guys go. Most of the men are respectful when a woman is present and watch the language, but on this particular occasion a guy by the name of Leo (Leonard) didnt care who was sitting there. It was raining F-bombs out of his mouth. Clearly you can see he had a little to much to drink and the Management let him carry on. Not only was I irritated and disgusted with his behavior, but so was some of the other men sitting at the table. During the tournament I sat at about 3 tables with this guy. The dealers and the other players where disgusted with him and his childish behavior. The manager only gave him warnings.. If you want to operate a respected establishment, get rid of the trash.

DJ
Review №2

Went to see Cirque du Soleil and had a fantastic time seeing the show

Jo
Review №3

Coming from out of town and visiting many casinos during my travels, this place is really nice. Its not like your traditional casino or anything, but if you enjoy playing Texas Holdem, Piagow or Ultimate Texas Texas Holdem, then youll really enjoy this place. The staff and dealers are very friendly and the all around vibe of the place is very welcoming. You cant beat $2 Table games!! I would highly recommend this place to any poker players looking for some good action!

Ma
Review №4

Bugs, bugs oh wait! And more bugs. Hope no one gets sick or bit by how many bugs are around the female bathroom & around the 2nd floor bar area. Oh & when i asked to talk to someone about theses bugs security told me to leave. This place is not at all for females. Idk any bar or place that is not ok with having females in it. But the place is disgusting as hell

An
Review №5

Volta cirque du soleil under the big top

Jo
Review №6

Good place to kill some time and play poker!!

As
Review №7

Its a awesome place to chill

Je
Review №8

Friday night tournament is fun.

Be
Review №9

It could be better if they brought back the dogs or add casino games to facilities

Ja
Review №10

Best Poker room in Tampa Bay area.

Mi
Review №11

Tampa Greyhound Track is a historical land mark of Tampa Bay. If you are into the history of the place there is a small museum on site. I personally went there to play live Texas Holdem poker. They also offer live sports betting as well. The poker room is smoke free. The tables were very comfortable and the dealers were friendly.

Da
Review №12

Its very homestead meaning newcomers are not that welcomed there. Everyone knows everyone there and if they dont know you, it will take a while for you to start feeling comfortable

Pa
Review №13

Ok but need to put more French fries in good orders

Ji
Review №14

Terrible. 1 Pai Gow 1 Ultimate Texas 1 3- card poker. 3 games and the rest poker. Plus on 3 card you have to win the hand in order to win the bobus! Lol I saw a guy have trip 7s and deal got trip Qs and lost everything! Hahaha stay away goto Hard Rock Tampa

Ki
Review №15

Was not what I was expecting. I was shocked there are no live races held there. Disappointed by that. Was impressed with the restaurant/food services tho. Very delicious and good priced food selection. Fast delivery of ordered food. Very flavorful, and as I said good priced.

He
Review №16

For the average person that wants to just go in to watch the races, dont do it, the staff there are rude and discriminate against those that dont gamble. I only say this because me and my husband had been going there to watch the races and to enjoy a meal or two there. However, today we went there and one of the security guards rudely approached us to tell us that we not allowed to come back on there property, otherwise we would be locked up for trespassing. This is a warning for anyone that wants to get out of the summer heat in Tampa, GO FIND A LIBRARY! The dog track is no place for non-gamblers!!!!

Mi
Review №17

Best pot limit Omaha game Ive found since I left New Zealand. Every Monday they have several tables running from 11am. To top that off they offer free food to the Omaha players Monday. Menu is excellent and I highly recommend the Apple pie A la mode. Great dealers as well and they offer Pai Gow Poker with no rake daily.

Ro
Review №18

Having a competitive spirit and determination to win I frequented paramutuals for many years. Then came bingo halls that became hard rock casinos that became 24/7 non-stop insanity... seriously do think that the operators having full control of the computer program are going to allow me to win...or, with facial recognition will simply exploit my competitive spirit?...get real! Anyway with a return to paramutuals at least I have direct input via analysis, observation, historical data and ultimately a decision about what I choose to risk on my wager. Dont get it twisted each of the dreams selling entities calculate for me to lose. Difference is that I have a choice and because of hours of operation I have a break in the continuity of insanity...then too sometimes I win.

ja
Review №19

Great staff. Love the dealers. Justin, Jennifer, Molly, Jose, Mike... Everyone is awesome

Yo
Review №20

Great place to come and play poker, blackjack, and other table games. Also simulcast horse & dog racing. Good food, good service!

Sh
Review №21

The dealer Shane is the best

Da
Review №22

Cashier was really great, we didnt stay to watch races

Ro
Review №23

Very 70s still inside.

Da
Review №24

I enjoy being able to dine in and place bets on dogs and horses via simulcast. Clean, smoke free atmosphere and yummy food!!

Ja
Review №25

Better off at the Hard Rock. Poker is for the insane here. All in all the time people $25 bets every turn. This is a type of crowd who play high card with 8 ppl on the table betting $100 per hand...I never seen such unlogical betting. Like buying a $100 scratch off tickets here. To here dealers were great bar staff sucks. I mean rude and dont even talk to them. I had 1 beer lost $100 all in 25min. Stop, bet, and leave structure.

La
Review №26

Cirque Du Soleil performance was AMAZING! If the chance presents itself to attend a show of theirs, Go! Traffic for entering and exiting was smooth flowing, area was clean. Could have better lighting for public safety.

Li
Review №27

Wish they still had live dog racing! However, the food is good and great happy hour prices! Budweiser bottles are only $2.00!

ST
Review №28

This place is horrible! First of all, the decor is old and dated, they had the old CRT TVs in the card room so it felt like I was back in the 1980s, also the bathroom was in a state of disrepair with rust in certain areas. The chairs at the table were uncomfortable and killing my back. The poker was no better either, they claimed a good promotion, but nobody at my table could get a high hand. I also played good quality poker and just got nailed with bad beat after beat (the regulars seemed to get lucky on me, big surprise) against awful players. It would not surprise me if the dealers here stack the deck against new players like they do at the Silks Poker Room at Tampa Bay Downs. Since their were no card shufflers, some dealers were extremely slow in getting the cards dealt, some talking so much with the regulars that they couldnt focus on dealing. It just seems like the dealers are way too familiar and friendly with the regulars, which seems pretty creepy. At my last table, some player kept standing up and singing loudly and nobody did anything to quiet him down. I left there with a headache and my ears ringing while losing $200. I was happy that that my car was still there in the parking lot, since it is in a bad neighborhood, getting mugged was in the back of my mind. Going to this place was like being in a never ending nightmare, I will never ever come back to this place again!

Ry
Review №29

GAMBLE FUN BUT BETTING IN RACES ON TVs is not the same

Br
Review №30

Better when the circus was there

Mo
Review №31

Track was in a dirty place but Circus de Soleil was great

Vi
Review №32

We are not talking about the circus in the parking lot of Tampa greyhound.Im talking about Tampa greyhound it self. Poker and bar.The building was run down hasnt been remodeled since the 60s it looks like.The food was okay at best.And the service was less than average.Very depressing place.Energy in the place very low.Bunch of characters up in this place.Great location for big investors to capitalize on returns.The tent did make Tampa greyhound look better.

Fr
Review №33

First time there it seems straight I just had some lucky old lady at my table....

Ke
Review №34

Quite shady, and definitely not for the faint of heart, or people with high anxiety. Rough crowd here, but it is definitely related to the part of Tampa it is located in. The staff and security are really friendly. Good cheap tournaments if you like poker. Come on Thursday, and check out options on poker atlas.

Ch
Review №35

Nice environment

Ja
Review №36

Friendliest staff

Le
Review №37

I went for the poker. Nice folks, but meager at best. Might be OK if youre in the neighborhood, but theres A LOT of nicer cardrooms in the area, so not worth any effort.

Br
Review №38

Win,lose,or draw always have a great time here

Er
Review №39

Great Place To Play Poker and Horse racing

Bi
Review №40

We went to see Volta in a huge tent in the parking lot. Great show. Our 12 year old granddaughter loved it.

Fr
Review №41

I had a good time playing cards.....

Mi
Review №42

This place sucks the guy called Hosier obviously not a real name is not responsible managment material

Ja
Review №43

So so needs better management

Ju
Review №44

Bartender was very pleasant and extremely professional. Food was good, all in all a great visit!

Fl
Review №45

Its a place to make a bet and watch the races..nothing fancy.. our waitress was great!!!

Br
Review №46

Fun place cheap drinks

St
Review №47

Decent amount of tournaments. Most players friendly to a point where some tables felt like a home game.

Re
Review №48

Too funny was only taking food to my dsughter whike she was at work

Mu
Review №49

Great parking seems like a lot of police

Ta
Review №50

Sorry google, just driving by the location. Tweek your algorithm.

Gl
Review №51

Good prices. Nice people

Mi
Review №52

Gotta watch the dogs while there still here

Ro
Review №53

Texas holdem, great atmosphere! 40 dollar buy- in. I LOVE IT!

De
Review №54

Went to see Cirque de Soliel in the big top, so did not see the inner workings of the track itself. Parking was $15-20 for the event, so would recommend carpooling to any event that has someone selling parking spaces at surrounding businesses. The parking lot supported a circus tent, so it could accommodate large events.

Ma
Review №55

I hate this company they abuse the hounds and treat them poorly I can not stand people who abuse animals! There are rumors also about owners making hounds swim in a pool for an hour before races to make them weaker and to make them loose since using chemicals would be easy to detect!! Someone needs to stop this and please remember how helpful dogs are to us and the lifes they have saved dogs are beautiful creatures that dont deserve the abuse they get many different dogs such as police dogs fire dogs and therapy dogs have really made an impact on us and hounds should not even be raced period but even more abusing them is awful anyone that has raced these hounds and has treated them with this disrespect should be in jail and also screw the people that have done this!!

Fr
Review №56

I had a verry bad experience tonight. I was playing a game and the dealer of a name zick was very rud to me and yelling to me cus I told him not to to show the card at the end ( rabbit ) . He made me feel I’m wrong . I know if it was Matt the manager was there he won’t let that happened. I asked politely not to show the card when the opponent fold the card, and he started yelling at me like it’s my fault and I’m not supposed to say any thing . The card dealer name is Zick

Sc
Review №57

Went for the rusty wallace exotic driving experience

Ma
Review №58

Good place to make money

Gr
Review №59

In the last couple of months, the new owners have put a lot of money into the place. New decor, the bathrooms are re-modeled. The parking lot is lit well at night. I am a big fan of the new and improved TGT Poker.

Mi
Review №60

Poker room is amazing. Best place to play cards with locals.

Do
Review №61

Good little mom and pop poker room.

Ke
Review №62

Went there on a Sunday evening and lets just say, salt of the earth people. Of the 20 players, Id say 5 were wasted... but overall had a great time. I dont have a chip on my shoulder so I was pleased, but I did watch my shoulder when I left the place.

Th
Review №63

Convenience & location to surorunding towns, cities & transit.

Li
Review №64

Never had any problems there. I never eat on premises

Do
Review №65

It was awesome for the event we saw was Cirque Soleil. They put on an awesome show.

Si
Review №66

It seems to have gotten better from the time I was there last year. However there was a ruling unknown to me last year about exposing your cards face up when thrown in the middle. I was told that I had to stand up away from the table until big blind came back to the original place, no warnings. To me I always have known if you throw your cards in the middle they are declared muck. Last week when I played, a player did the same exact thing I did and nothing happened. I asked the dealer are you going to address this? He looked confused so I asked for TD. The TD explained that they had made the change to that ruling in march this year and instead they give players 2 warnings. I would of been happy there but after the TD left the dealer decided to make a joke about on at least 3 occasions. The players are nice when I went there and the TD was polite but I find the actions of the dealer to be somewhat unprofessional.

Al
Review №67

Love this places everyone seem happy to take your money.... Love it going back every weekend if I can.

Se
Review №68

Old run down near the gato.Staff is friendly. Drinks are cheap. Not a first class establishment. If you want to sit down and play poker with a lot of local grungies, this will be your place.They do have security monitoring parking area for a good reason.The owners of The Establishment have quite a bit of money and the ability to make this place look a lot better. Complete waste of real estate no live dogs ever run here.

Pa
Review №69

Great atmosphere and friendly environment . My son love watching the dogs run .

mi
Review №70

Nice little room players are friendly definitely will be back

Bi
Review №71

Nice place but no live racing anymore! Very sad!!

Ma
Review №72

Love it me angel roberto serrano rosa

ca
Review №73

Love this place ! Great food 2 !

Sh
Review №74

You already know

De
Review №75

Its a great place to visit if your into racing, racing and Poker. Or just to get away and chill with friends as well as eat food and drink beverages.

Pl
Review №76

The buidling itself looks very dead and boring. This is one example that Sulphur Springs needs a redevopment. Maybe if they demolished that they could divide it up into a mini district simular to the midtown deveopment in westshore...I also thought if they opened the tower in the Suphur Springs area to tourists and redevelop the park around it...the area would be so much better. Making new homes isnt going to make the area better...you have to improve the area itself..Or even turn this into a mall or somthing to improve this area!! Tampa is a great place but this area has been ignored for way to long!! I think we all need to bring awarness to this recommendation to the city hall or something because nothing is being done.

Ro
Review №77

Well, you can place your bet, but there are no dogs on this track

Ja
Review №78

Had a blast playing cards with my wife and my dad. Friendly people, and an all around good time!

Mi
Review №79

Actually went to see Cirque de soliel here.. great time

er
Review №80

We visited here volta by cirque du Soleil and it was great

Da
Review №81

This place serves the best chicken quesadillas around.

Ma
Review №82

Good location for Cirque performances. $20 to park!

Ja
Review №83

Place where I go out to meet others, stops boredom .

To
Review №84

Its only for men it seems. . . Unless youre a bartender or waitress. However if youre betting on the races which you can watch on TV ...nothing live there of course, and if youre playing poker you might like the place. Its not the cleanest place in the world but its decent and there is excellent parking and its centrally located.

Wi
Review №85

Best place to play poker

Di
Review №86

Betting machines kindda out-dated...but employees there are awesome, fun place!!

Ca
Review №87

What in the world? This place needs to close down! They dont have live dogs... couldnt even find the entrance to get in to even see what was going on in the buildin... heck it may be closed now

Am
Review №88

Cirque du Soeil had their performance tent set up here. The show was Volta and it was phenomenal.

Be
Review №89

Went to see Volte the show was great good paking staff very helpful

Ka
Review №90

We saw the Volta Cirque du Soleil show thereGood facility-great show

MU
Review №91

There are great PLO games on Mondays, friendly staff.

F
Review №92

Show was great but all seats were terrible due to they packed the seats to close together. Other than that was a great show...

Ja
Review №93

Great place staff is wonderful

br
Review №94

This was a nice show

ti
Review №95

Old and dated place. They try harder

Al
Review №96

I had so much fun the people at the counter was super nice

Ty
Review №97

This place is pretty cool it seems like theyre updating it currently and dealers and waitresses are nice enough.

Da
Review №98

Place your bets here. Try it out at least once. This is a tampa Institution. And lots of parking

Ce
Review №99

Very different show from others! I had very good time!!

Cl
Review №100

Not crowded, friendly staff, best place to simulcast horse racing in the Tampa area!!

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  • Address:755 E Waters Ave, Tampa, FL 33604, United States
  • Site:http://tgtpoker.com/
  • Phone:+1 813-932-4313
Categories
  • Casino
  • Off track betting shop
  • Family restaurant
Working hours
  • Monday:10am–2am
  • Tuesday:10am–3am
  • Wednesday:10am–3am
  • Thursday:10am–2am
  • Friday:10am–4am
  • Saturday:10am–2am
  • Sunday:10am–2am
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