The 7 pm tournaments would often draw six or eight tables, and multiple cash games would run. The closure of Sahara added life to the Stratosphere poker room. Many of its staff and players moved to Stratosphere. The Stratosphere’s poker room received a bump after the nearby Sahara poker room closed in April 2011. The poker room closed about one month after it moved to its new location. This move did not appear to help a room that often struggled to get cash games and tournaments off the ground. One of the changes was building a new poker room on the second level, moving the four-table poker room from its first-floor location it held for its long life. A $140 million renovation was announced for the resort. The Strat rebranded from the Stratosphere after the property was acquired by Golden Entertainment two years ago. Here is a eulogy on all the lost Las Vegas poker rooms since Black Friday. At least 28 Las Vegas poker rooms folded since then, including 11 on the Strip. Since 2011 there has been a downturn in Las Vegas poker, coinciding with online poker’s Black Friday.

Of those, Encore, Paris Las Vegas and Palazzo had poker rooms at sister properties that connected through an indoor shopping corridor. The exceptions were Casino Royale, Cosmopolitan, Encore, New York-New York, Paris Las Vegas, and Palazzo. There was a time that nearly all Las Vegas Strip casinos hosted a poker room. This post will remain published for archive purposes, but won’t be updated further. John Mehaffey wrote about the history of all closed Las Vegas poker rooms at VegasAdvantage, please refer to his more updated post for current information. Update: Since publishing this post, even more Las Vegas poker rooms have closed.

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