Monday, August 02, 2010

Status of poker in Vegas

Here's an interesting snapshot of what games were available at one point two weeks after the World Series of Poker:

http://www.twoplustwo.com/magazine/issue68/bryan-clark-status-las-vegas-poker-summer-2010.php

One interesting tidbit, about the Venetian: "In addition, waiting lists for the actual games could get very long, though the Venetian is restricted to how many cash games they could run by their license."

Is that really true? I had never heard that gaming licenses had limits on the number of poker tables they could operate. How is it possible that I haven't known this if it is so?

1 comment:

Pete said...

I don't believe there are any special restrictions on the Venetian. But during the WSOP when there were 119 tables not all the tables had drop boxes on them .... and therefore could not be used for cash games.

It may also be possible that gaming only gave approval of those temporary extra tables for tournament use.