I have some family in deep east texas (carthage) Its only about 45 min from shreeveport. I play at binions for the cash games. They have a good 2-5 NL game. But the daily Tourney at the Hollywood casino is great. Its a 100+10 with rebuys for the first 3 levels (hr and 1/2) Pretty solid group of regulars there, but its still cool. the only down side to it is that it starts at 11am so you have to get up early (well for me anyways)