Four Winds Casino

The Four Winds Casino is operated in New Buffalo, Michigan, by the Potawotomi Native American Indian Tribe. Combined with its satellite casinos in Hartford and Dowagiac, the Four Winds operation is one of the top 10 casinos by size in the United States. Unfortunately, the poker room has now been closed due to a management decision to focus on other games.

Before closing abruptly in 2012, the Four Winds spread a futuristic poker offering. The center of the room contained electronic poker tables with touch screens that allowed for fast play without a dealer. Also among the total of roughly 20 tables were several small heads-up tables. With one-on-one live cash game action a rarity, this novelty was seized upon by Michigan’s short-handed specialists. Tournaments ran twice daily in no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha, with small-stakes limit and no-limit hold’em flanking these events on the remaining cash tables. Several tables were permanently kept aside for sporadic sit-and-go action, which ran whenever enough demand could be shown to the floor staff. Satellites to major World Poker Tour events also ran consistently until the closure of the poker room, with many packages given away.