{"id":251480,"date":"2024-08-06T00:05:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T00:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/caesars-palace-poker-room-closes-temporarily\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:13:06","slug":"caesars-palace-poker-room-closes-temporarily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/caesars-palace-poker-room-closes-temporarily\/","title":{"rendered":"Caesars Palace Poker Room Closes Temporarily"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n By Scott Roeben<\/a>, on August 05 2024 <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

The poker room at Caesars Palace has closed temporarily.<\/p>\n

The space will be used for slot machines as the resort upgrades its high limit slot room.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s pretty much the entire story, but we were looking for another excuse to show off our fisheye photo of the poker room at Caesars Palace.<\/p>\n

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The word \u201cpoker\u201d comes from the German word \u201cPochspiel,\u201d or \u201cbragging game,\u201d and is derived from the Persian game of As-Nas. Anything in a photo caption on the Internet has to be true.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The closure is expected to last 2-3 months, about the period of time since we last had sex. And by \u201cmonths\u201d we mean \u201cyears.\u201d<\/p>\n

There have been some internal discussions about the possibility of a temporary poker room at Caesars, but there\u2019s been no movement in that direction recently.<\/p>\n

Poker rooms don\u2019t really move the needle in terms of casino revenue, so they\u2019re sort of considered disposable. Translation: When one closes, it\u2019s not a huge loss. Unless you\u2019re a poker dealer, of course.<\/p>\n

Venetian doesn\u2019t care, as it just opened what\u2019s been touted as the biggest poker room<\/a> on The Strip.<\/p>\n

If your hackles went up when we said poker isn\u2019t a big money-maker for casinos, please note Caesars Entertainment just sold its World Series of Poker brand<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WSOP sold for $500 million. Which seems to contradict our statement about poker not making money for casinos.<\/p>\n

Life is complicated. Sometimes, two things can be true at the same time. Like the fact superhero movies tend to be terrible yet they make a lot of money for movie studios, or Las Vegas can be both the best (strip clubs) and worst (120-degree heat) place in the world. Complexity makes life interesting.<\/p>\n

Take chefs, for example: Bobby Flay is a great chef, but Bobby\u2019s Burgers taste like feet. Gordon Ramsay is mean to people on \u201cHell\u2019s Kitchen,\u201d then he\u2019s a sweetheart to kids on \u201cMasterChef Junior.\u201d Guy Fieri can be a gag reflex-inducing goofball and his restaurants can be quite good. We could go on and on, but eventually we\u2019d make a joke about Giada De Laurentiis and get canceled. Moving on.<\/p>\n

In most casino games, players play against the house, the casino. In poker, players play against each other. The house takes a small commission, or \u201crake.\u201d Playing poker is the closest we\u2019ve ever come to raking. We tend to wait for a strong breeze.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the rake in poker is a fraction of what slot machines generate in the same amount of space.<\/p>\n

Poker rooms are sort of a public service, to give guys a place to go in order to avoid spending time with their families. (Yes, it\u2019s mostly guys. Only about five percent of poker players are female.)<\/p>\n

How we have managed to fluff up this story to more than 400 words, we have no idea. Thank you for reading this far. You would probably be a great poker player, as you have exhibited both a high degree of patience and an admirable ability to endure bullshit. Shuffle up and deal!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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