After closing temporarily in June, the poker room at Caesars Palace Las Vegas should reopen soon.
The previous venue near the sportsbook gave way for a new high-limit slot area, but recent reports indicate that a new room is in the works and would be opening in within the coming weeks.
Caesars Entertainment Las Vegas regional President Sean McBurney recently told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a new room would be unveiled in late spring “before the World Series of Poker starts.”
Caesars hosts the world’s largest poker festival every year across the street from Caesars in the Horseshoe and Paris convention center. They previously owned the state’s only online poker operator, but sold WSOP.com last August.
Some Concerned Room Would Remain Shuttered
The longer the room remained closed, some poker players expressed concerns that the room wouldn’t actually come back. And their concerns weren’t completely unfounded.
Several Las Vegas Strip casinos closed poker rooms since the widespread COVID-induced shutdowns in 2020. Flamingo, Planet Hollywood, Excalibur, Harrah’s, and Mirage closed its rooms for good.
Other poker rooms on the Strip, like Mandalay Bay, are no longer open 24/7. Mandalay Bay’s room operates Wednesday-Monday from 10:00 a.m. until 4 a.m.
Since 2012, there were 40 permanent poker room closures in Las Vegas. But recent indications from Caesars should calm those concerns.
Part Of Larger Renovation Projects
The poker room reopening comes as the property has undergone other major renovation efforts over the last few years.
Caesars updated the main casino entrance, hotel lobby, casino dome, porte-cochere, the Flavian Sky Suites, and more. The property also opened a new bar, additional high-limit gaming areas, and Colosseum Tower (formerly the Forum Tower) with 440 new rooms and suites.
“Something that we’ve learned over (the course of) six decades at Caesars Palace is that properties have to continue to reinvent themselves,” McBurney told the LVRJ. “We hadn’t really touched the common spaces. So, we started this project of renovating the common spaces (at Caesars Palace) coming right out of COVID.”
The additions come as Caesars has also been working on renovation projects at several other Strip properties.
Details on Caesars Palace’s new poker room haven’t officially been released. However, local Las Vegas blog Vegas Advantage reported recently that an unnamed source claimed the new venue would open on May 16 and have eight tables.
The anonymous source also told the blog that it would be located in the Appian Way retail area near Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill. However, these are still just rumors that haven’t been confirmed by Caesars.
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