Caesars Poker Room to close for remodeling? mid July
Played today and the word going around is the rooms closing for remodeling. Not sure on the date of closing (heard maybe July 16) or reopening, but one of the dealers did say they offered to give him a job in Laughlin in the meanwhile.
If it does close hopefully it does actually reopen and not just disappear.
After the Venetian poker room remodel, there won’t be any reason to play anywhere else in Vegas..
Why? What would you think will attract so many people to Venetian if it is moved away from the main entrance to a less obvious location? At least right now it attracts a bunch of tourists and random people but once it moves if you don’t know it exists you wouldn’t know about it.
Why? What would you think will attract so many people to Venetian if it is moved away from the main entrance to a less obvious location? At least right now it attracts a bunch of tourists and random people but once it moves if you don’t know it exists you wouldn’t know about it.
It’s true, my wife and I walked around the shops where the new poker room is going to be, that mall gets plenty of foot traffic but that particular area is really dead.
The Venetian comment was obviously a joke?
PokerNews has an article with a few more details:
Vital vegas guy is a complete tool but he seems confident Caesar’s poker room is coming back after the slot room is finished
Closing the poker room is a good thing, the only players that will be pissed is Diesel and the other promo grinders because they have to actually learn how to play poker.
Can't wait to triple barrel bluff the promo nits that move to Bellagio or Aria lol.
Can't speak about the night games because when I leave Omina at 3am poker is the last thing on my mind but the couple times I played there over the years, the games were nitty for a Friday or Saturday afternoon.
Good riddance imo.
I don't think Caesars has promos.
The corporation is in business to make money. If the poker room isn't making the return that the bean counters expect then they will probably close it. Pretty sure on a square foot basis video poker makes way more profit than a poker table.
Absolutely no doubt. None.
However there is a bit of short term thinking in that.
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I don't believe Caesars's poker room will close. Caesars owns the WSOP. That would be hypocritical unless it plans to sell or close the WSOP.
Casinos have plenty of slots. If they didn’t have enough slots they would have fixed that problem a long time ago.
Will they all wind up at Horseshoe 2/3 game sitting and not playing a hand for hours to set their double tier points?? It’s gonna make the game so crappy…
The few times I've played the 2-3 NL at Horseshoe, that's what the game was. Crappy. A bunch of tier credit grinders. Half the players were on their phones. Plenty of hands went raise and take it pre or raise then three bet and take it pre.
I immediately dropped down to 1-3 NL where there was plenty of action.
So word on the street is saying Caesars poker room is closing July 17th for 2-3 months.
High Limits slots will temporarily move into the poker room space, the current high limit slot area will get renovated, then will all the shuffling around is done, the poker room will come back.
Back when their property at Rincon had poker I asked the players at my table what their wives or husbands were doing. Six were at the slots, the one husband at craps, and 2 were in the spa. The room itself might not have directly generated much income but given I know they all changed casinos when the poker room did not open after COVID they lost 9 people they cared about from that one table. Empty slots generate no money and the slots they placed there did not add to the slots players they simply took them from other machines in their casino.
Back when their property at Rincon had poker I asked the players at my table what their wives or husbands were doing. Six were at the slots, the one husband at craps, and 2 were in the spa. The room itself might not have directly generated much income but given I know they all changed casinos when the poker room did not open after COVID they lost 9 people they cared about from that one table. Empty slots generate no money and the slots they placed there did not add to the slots players they simp
I think two things can be true. Frustrated poker players can underestimate the value of slot machines, and casinos can underestimate the loss of poker on the overall draw of a casino. All casinos would be purely slots if they could get away with it, but they need other elements to keep and attract players and like you said other family members. I can’t say Caesar’s was wrong closing at least one of the flamingo, harrahs, link poker rooms considering their proximity, but I don’t think you can be an elite hotel that Caesar’s palace wants to be without a poker room.
Has anyone heard what the current situation is? Rumor had it the room would be closed by now but it’s still open.
I was there last week, think mid august now. Dealers didn’t seem concerned about it, they seemed confident they would find space for poker or different space for slots.
