Following an prolonged absence, stay poker is scheduled to come back again to Hollywood Casino in Grantville this upcoming spring, on line casino executives mentioned.
Official return:
The vice chairman and normal supervisor of operations at Hollywood Casino’s Pennsylvania venues, Tony Frabbiele, verified on January 24 that stay poker will formally come again to the casino throughout the 1st quarter or throughout the early interval of the 2nd quarter of 2024. Commenting on it, he added: “We’re excited to bring poker back. It’s something a lot of people want and we want to bring it back.”
Furthermore, the aforementioned Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course by no means reopened its poker site after the March 2020 COVID-19 shutdown, a lot to the disapproval of the massive variety of gamers.
Relatedly, Frabbiele said that an unspecified quantity of poker tables will likely be arrange subsequent to the doorway to the sportsbook, the place the restaurant and bar are positioned. At the second, the designated area for the poker options digital desk video games (ETGs).
However, the plan continues to be in its preliminary part, in keeping with him. PENN Entertainment must file a request to the Pennsylvania’s gaming regulator, aka the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB), to formally add stay poker to its present choices.
The on line casino is getting ready for the return of stay poker:
At the start, stay Texas Hold’em poker with completely different money prizes, will likely be accessible to gamers from Friday to Sunday, with particular enterprise hours to be determined. Commenting on this, Frabbiele commented: “We’re dipping our toes in the water. We need to see what the demand is and base the hours off that.”
In this sense, the talked about on line casino should enhance the variety of staff for the stay poker addition. Right now, sellers are being skilled and employed. Placing player-favorite stay poker subsequent to the bookmaker is the factor the on line casino executives hope will generate pleasure on the property.
On that observe, Frabbiele commented: “We love the energy of poker and the sportsbook. We also have horse racing (wagering) terminals in the sportsbook along with our food and beverage offerings. It should add up to quite the poker experience.”
The restaurant and sportsbook is open every single day of the week, and is present process a transitioning course of to turn into an ESPN Bet-branded property from its earlier Barstool Sports affiliation. Speaking about it, Frabbiele mentioned: “We’re still trying to figure out the next phase of that.”
However, he additionally identified that stay poker can even be launched in the Hollywood Casino Morgantown space this coming spring. But Hollywood Casino York received’t be including the aforementioned stay poker due to the restricted area.
As for the previous poker site in Grantville, it stays bricked up. But in the long run, it’s going to keep a part of the property and numerous choices are being contemplated.
Then, the shuttered restaurant on the third flooring, which served as a location of a Tattered Flag Brewery, is at present being redecorated. In addition, it will likely be used for Valentine’s Day as a Taylor Swift-themed pop-up bar. In this regard, Frabbiele commented according to PennLive: “We’re going to try different things up in that space.”