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by Nitya JainPosted on 08 Jul, 2020

Hotels along the Las Vegas strip have begun to reopen since the start of June. Although, casino and poker rooms took some time to open for the public, MGM Grand finally reopened their poker rooms on Friday with dividers made of Plexiglass, which are being used by the sister hotels of MGM properties. The room will be open from 4 pm – midnight Thursday through Monday, a spokesman said.

8 tables will be available for play. Only cash games will be allowed, no tournaments. Though things won’t get to normal immediately since the outbreak of coronavirus. It has been a relief for some of the poker players who have been aching to play some live poker. The MGM properties have installed plexiglass compared to their competitors as it allows them to have a 6-handed game at their poker tables.

Whereas the neighbouring can afford a 5-handed game of poker, following the rules and regulation set by the Gaming Control Board. “We are very pleased by the enthusiasm we are seeing from guests ready to come back to Las Vegas,” acting CEO Bill Hornbuckle told the Gazette-Journal.“As business demand increases, we are able to open additional properties and bring more of our employees back to work.”

There will be strict rules and regulations followed by the staff and the visitors for the safety of the people. Temperatures checks and screening will be mandatory. The Aria, Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Golden Nugget, The Orleans, Sahara Las Vegas, South Point and The Venetian are also open. A month ago, Excalibur Hotel & Casino, the latest Las Vegas property owned by MGM Resorts International reopened their doors.

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Three more Las Vegas poker rooms are no more.

According to a report from CardsChat, MGM properties Excalibur, Mandalay Bay and The Mirage have shuttered their poker rooms for good. They'd all been shut down since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic but company officials had called them 'temporary' and said they'd be 'continually re-evaluated.'

Evidently, the evaluations have determined that the properties would be better off moving forward without spreading poker. While that will be sad news for many, there's some silver lining in that six figures worth of bad beat jackpot must still be distributed back to the players, and it'll happen in a series of freerolls.

Continuing Trend of Nevada Consolidation

None were particularly robust rooms, each having between seven and 12 tables, and their closures continue an industry-wide trend of shrinkage in the Las Vegas market and Nevada in general.

In February, the last full month of pre-pandemic operations, there were 34 rooms in Clark County with 430 poker tables running, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Today, those numbers are 21 and 285.

Statewide, it's much the same. Where today one can find poker at 29 locations with the possibility of being seated at 338 tables, there were 57 venues hosting poker at 540 tables in February.

Even that number of 57 was lowest the industry has seen in Nevada since 2002, according to the UNLV Center for Gaming Research.

Good News for Freeroll Hunters

The good news to come out of the closures is that the bad beat jackpot money must be distributed back to the players, per gaming regulations, as it's money that belongs to them and not the venues. That means more than $100,000 will be given away in a series of three upcoming freerolls, CardsChat reported.

The poker room at MGM Grand, which opened back in July, will host the freerolls. The first is tomorrow but has already 'sold out,' while the others will take place Nov. 17 and Dec. 1.

Date	Venue	Registration Date	Bad Beat Jackpot
Nov. 3	MGM Grand	Sold out	$24,022 (Mandalay Bay)
Nov. 17	MGM Grand	Nov. 11	$69,804 (Mirage)
Dec. 1	MGM Grand	Nov. 25	$27,837 (Excalibur)
$121,663 (Total)

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Players who want to get their hands on some of the free dough can head to the official MGM website on the appointed sign-up day at 5 p.m. local time to try to secure a seat. Alternately, the official ticketing page states that, 'If spots are available on the day of the tournament in person registration will be accept on a first come, first serve basis.'

According to PokerAtlas, MGM Grand has 13 tables, which represents the likely full capacity for the tournaments.

Sad News for Many in Industry

For many in the industry, though, the closures of these three rooms will be seen as sad news, especially for the employees who will now have to find new work if they hadn't already.

Particularly given its storied history, the Mirage will be missed. The room was remodeled and downsized in 2015 to its smaller size of 12 tables. However, it was formerly one of the top poker destinations in the city.

Many players who came up in the late 1990s and early 2000s cut their teeth in the limit games there, something they discussed fondly a few months back on Twitter. There, Daniel Negreanu took part in a trend by posting a photo of a chip stack from the Mirage:

I grew up here https://t.co/UPpFSAxxP1

— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker)

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Eli Elezra, David 'ODB' Baker, Layne Flack, Bruno Fitoussi and Gavin Griffin were among those who recalled building their bankrolls at the property's $20/$40 limit.

Of course, it also played a small but memorable role in the film 'Rounders', representing the ultimate destination for an aspiring poker pro who wished to find fortune in Las Vegas.

'I want him to think I'm pondering a call,' Mike McDermott says. 'But all I'm really thinkin' about is Vegas and the f*****' Mirage.'

Aspiring poker players can no longer identify with that particular dream, and the live poker capital of the world is down three more rooms in this time of industry upheaval.

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