The Las Vegas Strip will quickly have one much less poker site. The Sahara, positioned on the far north finish of the Strip, introduced final week that its seven-table room could be shut down Nov. 16 to make room for extra slot machines.
“When it debuts in mid-December, the improved choices will embrace devoted slot banks the place gamers might be among the first in Las Vegas to play the most recent take a look at video games from high gaming content material suppliers,” the on line casino’s basic supervisor Paul Hobson informed the Las Vegas Assessment-Journal. “Extra particulars about this newest Sahara innovation might be introduced quickly.”
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.
Simply The Newest Poker Room Shutdown
The closure comes as Las Vegas has seen many different poker rooms closed lately, together with a number of through the COVID pandemic. Treasure Island additionally shuttered its poker site in 2018.
In recent times the Mirage, Excalibur, the Tropicana, the Flamingo, Harrah’s, the Cannery, Inexperienced Valley Ranch, and the Cannery have stopped providing poker. Binion’s, which launched the World Collection of Poker in 1970, closed their poker site in March 2020.
Caesars Palace just lately closed the property’s poker site as effectively to briefly home high-stakes slots because the on line casino renovates that space of the property. Nevertheless, that room is anticipated to reopen when the work is full.
The poker site closures have affected Atlantic Metropolis as effectively. The Tropicana is now the one location on the Boardwalk providing poker. The cardroom at Caesars/Wild Wild West closed through 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.
Additionally within the northeast, Encore Boston Harbor closed its poker site through 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 anticipated so as to add a poker site to the on line casino mission to be constructed on the location of the brand new stadium for the Oakland A’s baseball crew.
The Seminoles are additionally at present redeveloping the Mirage right into a Exhausting Rock property. The tribal operator has a considerable poker scene in Florida, so there may be additionally at the least an opportunity the Vegas plans name for poker as effectively.
