The Las Vegas Strip is Losing a Poker Room … Again

The Las Vegas Strip, for the second time already this yr, will lose one other poker site on the finish of the month.

Resorts World, which opened in 2021, has 29 poker tables and performed host to the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) the previous few years. Attendance on the 2025 NAPT was down considerably in comparison with 2024 in lots of occasions, together with the Fundamental Occasion declining from 895 entries to 738.

Rumors started swirling across the match space throughout final yr’s NAPT that the Resorts World’s poker site days have been numbered. These rumors have now been confirmed, and the cardboard room will stop operations efficient March 29.

What’s Happening in Las Vegas?

Las Vegas tourism dropped over 8% year-over-year in 2025, and that seems to have carried over to the native poker scene. Planet Hollywood’s poker site, eight months after reopening for the primary time since COVID, closed on the finish of January. Resorts World will grow to be the second card room on the Strip to close down already this yr.

Town, after Resorts closes, will nonetheless have 18 poker rooms in operation and eight on the Strip. That is greater than some other U.S. metropolis. However these numbers have been on a decline for the reason that pandemic.

The Las Vegas Strip, 10 years in the past, had many different card rooms, together with The Strat (previously Stratosphere), Harrah’s, Mirage, Monte Carlo (now Park MGM), Luxor, Excalibur, Treasure Island, Flamingo and even a couple of poker tables at Circus Circus and Riviera not all that way back. Occasions have modified for the Las Vegas poker scene, thanks largely to the pandemic and now town’s tourism decline.

Nevertheless it is not all dangerous. In truth, the Vegas poker scene continues to be crushing it in some ways, together with file attendance annually on the World Collection of Poker (WSOP), and sequence such because the Wynn Tens of millions, which is at the moment underway, bringing in large fields. To not point out all of the money recreation motion at Aria, Bellagio, Wynn, Venetian, and elsewhere.

Poker is not useless in Las Vegas, however closures reminiscent of Resorts World and Planet Hollywood definitely do not assist the narrative.