- Planet Hollywood’s poker site will shut for good on January 31
- It had reopened lower than a yr in the past, away from on line casino foot site visitors, which just about doomed it
- The shutdown will depart solely 9 lively Strip poker rooms, 18 in Las Vegas general
Lower than a yr after Caesars Leisure relocated its Planet Hollywood poker site to a mezzanine-level area off its on line casino flooring, the gaming firm has introduced that the room will completely shut on January 31.
Desk video games contained in the Planet Hollywood poker site in November 2025. (Picture: Shutterstock)
The closure ends a short-lived second act for a room that reopened in Might 2025 after almost 4 years with out poker on the property. The brand new 23‑desk area occupied the previous London Membership, a 4,800‑sq.‑foot non-public occasion venue on the resort’s second flooring.
The closure additionally reduces the variety of lively poker rooms within the Las Vegas Valley to 18, in response to business monitoring by Vegas Benefit. Of these, solely 9 can be on the Strip:
Lifeless on the River
Earlier this month, the poker site at Planet Hollywood signaled hope of a revival, internet hosting 18 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Circuit occasions. (Caesars offered the WSOP final yr to Toronto-based NSUS Group Inc. for $500 million, however will get to function the match for the following 19 years.)
The robust match turnout, nonetheless, didn’t translate into sustainable day by day money‑sport site visitors. In accordance with Poker.org, even throughout busy on line casino intervals, the mezzanine location left the room “invisible” to informal foot site visitors, typically leading to solely a single quick‑handed sport operating.
This can depart the Caesars empire with two poker rooms — at Caesars Palace and Horseshoe. Caesars framed the shutdown as a strategic consolidation, stating that it’s “designed to raised match present demand and improve the participant expertise.”
Planet Hollywood’s former poker site workers can be reassigned to different positions within the on line casino, in response to the corporate’s assertion.
Planet Hollywood’s closure continues a long-term contraction of Las Vegas poker in favor of slot machines, which don’t require human supervision and vastly outperform poker’s modest rake-based income. (In poker, the home doesn’t compete in opposition to its friends. It solely earns cash by way of a share — usually 10% of the pot with a most cap of $4 to $6 per hand.)
Roughly 40 poker rooms have folded because the early-aughts poker increase began busting round 2012. The newest Strip closure earlier than this occurred on the Sahara in November 2024, when the on line casino changed its poker site with slot machines.
Caesars didn’t say what would substitute the Planet Hollywood poker site.
