How fast do things change in this city?

Binion's will be opening its new poker room sometime within the next couple of weeks. That got me to thinking about how many changes there have been in the city's poker rooms just in the time that I have been here. I arrived in July, 2006. Here's a list of the poker rooms that have appeared, disappeared, or moved within the facility since that time:

Moved:
Excalibur (not a move, exactly, but a change to electronic tables)
Luxor
O’Shea’s
Planet Hollywood (3 moves)
Stratosphere
Plaza
Fiesta Henderson
Green Valley Ranch
Sam’s Town
Silverton (2 moves, third coming soon)
Suncoast
Sunset Station

Moves planned:
Binion's
South Coast
Wynn

Closed:
Hilton
Stardust
Fiesta Rancho
Paris
Rampart

Opened:
Bill’s
Club Fortune
Eastside Cannery
Hard Rock
Aliante Station (coming November 11)
Rampart


This is all off the top of my head, so I probably missed some.

Had I arrived just a few months earlier, I would have also been here for the openings of Wynn, Venetian, South Coast (now South Point), Red Rock, Hilton, and a few others, I think. In other words, my list tends to underestimate the pace of change, because I came right after the biggest expansion in the industry had already taken place.

Given that there are about 50 poker rooms in the city now operating, it's pretty amazing what percentage of them have opened, closed, or moved just in the last two years.