The Las Vegas Strip will quickly have one much less poker site. The Sahara, situated on the far north finish of the Strip, introduced final week that its seven-table room would be shut down Nov. 16 to make room for extra slot machines.
“When it debuts in mid-December, the enhanced offerings will include dedicated slot banks where players can be some of the first in Las Vegas to play the newest test games from top gaming content providers,” the on line casino’s basic supervisor Paul Hobson advised the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “More details about this latest Sahara innovation will be announced soon.”
The room, which re-opened in February 2020, provided money video games and several other decrease buy-in tournaments all through the week, together with a loopy pineapple occasion, however didn’t get the required site visitors to proceed.
Just The Latest Poker Room Shutdown
The closure comes as Las Vegas has seen many different poker rooms closed lately, together with a number of in the course of the COVID pandemic. Treasure Island additionally shuttered its poker site in 2018.
In current years the Mirage, Excalibur, the Tropicana, the Flamingo, Harrah’s, the Cannery, Green Valley Ranch, and the Cannery have stopped providing poker. Binion’s, which launched the World Series of Poker in 1970, closed their poker site in March 2020.
Caesars Palace lately closed the property’s poker site as properly to briefly home high-stakes slots because the on line casino renovates that space of the property. However, that room is predicted to reopen when the work is full.
The poker site closures have affected Atlantic City as properly. The Tropicana is now the one location on the Boardwalk providing poker. The cardroom at Caesars/Wild Wild West closed in the course of the pandemic and by no means reopened. Ocean Resort additionally closed its poker venue earlier than the pandemic. The Borgata stays a pacesetter in poker away from the Boardwalk with 52 tables, whereas Harrah’s homes a 10-table room.
Also within the northeast, Encore Boston Harbor closed its poker site in the course of the pandemic however reopened in 2022 to complaints of extreme rake.
Las Vegas gamers at the least have some hope for a number of new rooms within the coming years. Bally’s is predicted so as to add a poker site to the on line casino undertaking to be constructed on the positioning of the brand new stadium for the Oakland A’s baseball group.
The Seminoles are additionally presently redeveloping the Mirage right into a Hard Rock property. The tribal operator has a considerable poker scene in Florida, so there’s additionally at the least an opportunity the Vegas plans name for poker as properly.
