Las Vegas Poker Rooms Coronavirus

The flamingo poker room recently reopened with five handed games without.

Las vegas poker rooms coronavirus.

The las vegas poker and gambling industry is in dire straits due to covid 19 and it s unclear what the future may hold for sin city. There are 31 poker rooms in the las vegas area and we at pokeratlas provide complete and up to date information about every room in every location including downtown henderson southeast north las vegas summerlin northwest and the strip. The bellagio room will feature 23 tables. And most of the time there s a fairly sizable wait list.

I ve been to sin city many times but i ve never seen it like it is right now in the age of coronavirus. Encore reopened on june 4. The coronavirus pandemic changed the way poker games are run but it didn t change poker players. I ve enjoyed a long love affair with las vegas poker rooms.

It cost the las vegas casinos millions of dollars per day that the doors were. I played regularly in high school and college but it wasn t until a work trip to vegas 30 years ago that i played in a controlled. It s a brave new world of social distancing masks plexiglass closed casinos thinned crowds and even hand washing stations at some entrances on the las vegas strip. Games are limited to five players instead of the normal nine or 10 and masks and hand sanitizer.

Las vegas has certainly felt the full blow of the economic catastrophe caused by the spread of the coronavirus even more acutely than many other destinations due to its reliance on bringing large groups of people together to mix mingle gamble and have a good time. Poker rooms across las vegas are slowly opening back up after the casino shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Thursday following nearly three months of closures out of coronavirus concerns.