Las Vegas Poker Rooms Coronavirus

I ve enjoyed a long love affair with las vegas poker rooms.

Las vegas poker rooms coronavirus.

The coronavirus pandemic changed the way poker games are run but it didn t change poker players. Thursday following nearly three months of closures out of coronavirus concerns. Games are limited to five players instead of the normal nine or 10 and masks and hand sanitizer. Bellagio and caesars palace will bring back their poker rooms at 10 a m.

Coronavirus spooks players on any given evening a poker room such as aria in las vegas will have anywhere from 15 20 cash games running. Encore reopened on june 4. It cost the las vegas casinos millions of dollars per day that the doors were. I ve been to sin city many times but i ve never seen it like it is right now in the age of coronavirus.

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. The flamingo poker room recently reopened with five handed games without. And most of the time there s a fairly sizable wait list. 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.

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. 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. The poker room has not been open since mid march when the state ordered casinos and other nonessential businesses closed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.