Resorts World will close its 29-table poker room on March 30, 2026. The news was first reported by Chris Murray and confirmed by Vital Vegas. Murray organizes a weekly game at Resorts World’s poker room.
Closure rumors have floated around the poker world for months. The room’s manager recently departed the company. It was rarely busy and part of a struggling casino with image issues. The company agreed to pay a $10.5 million fine to Nevada regulators last year for failing to comply with anti-money laundering laws.
Resorts World’s poker room uses TableCaptain by PokerAtlas for its cash game and tournament information. The tournament calendar shows that the daily tournaments are no longer available through the March 30 closure date. Cash game action is sparse, with just a table or two normally running. At 2pm on a Friday, the time of this article’s publication, the room had no tables running, according to TableCaptain.
Resorts World was the only Las Vegas casino to open with a poker room since M Resort in 2009. Cosmopolitan, Circa, Fontainebleau, Wildfire Fremont, and Durango opened without poker rooms since then. Cromwell, SLS Las Vegas, Virgin, and Pass reopened after major remodels under new brands without live poker. When Cadence Crossing opens later in March to replace Jokers Wild, it will not deal live poker or any other table games. The same is true when Club Fortune North replaces Poker Palace in North Las Vegas later this year.
Las Vegas will have 17 live poker rooms
The closure of Resorts World’s poker room will leave 17 Las Vegas poker rooms. Eight are on the Strip: Aria, Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Horseshoe, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, Venetian, and Wynn. One is at Golden Nugget downtown. The other eight are in the locals market: Boulder Station, Green Valley Ranch, Orleans, Red Rock, Santa Fe Station, Skyline, South Point, and Westgate.
This will make 43 Las Vegas poker room closures since 2011
When Resorts World’s poker room closes, it will become the 43rd in Las Vegas to close permanently in the last 15 years. That is in addition to the ones at Green Valley Ranch, Mandalay Bay, and Westgate that announced permanent closures, only to later reopen the rooms.
Here is Vegas Advantage’s exclusive list of all Las Vegas poker room closures:
- Resorts World: March 2026
- Planet Hollywood: January 2026
- Poker Palace: September 2025
- Sahara: November 2024
- Flamingo: September 2021
- Silver Sevens: August 2021
- Binion’s: March 2020
- Cannery: March 2020
- Club Fortune: March 2020
- Excalibur: March 2020
- Harrah’s: March 2020
- Mirage: March 2020
- Palace Station: March 2020
- Rio: March 2020
- Sam’s Town: March 2020
- The Strat: October 2019
- Arizona Charlie’s Decatur: August 2018
- Treasure Island: August 2018
- Suncoast: April 2018
- Luxor: June 2017
- Monte Carlo: April 2017
- Hard Rock: March 2017
- The Linq: August 2016
- Eastside Cannery: April 2016
- Plaza: March 2016
- Aliante Casino: March 2016
- Hooters: March 2015
- Texas Station: August 2014
- Palms: June 2014
- Sunset Station: May 2014
- El Cortez: December 2013
- Circus Circus: September 2013
- M Resort: August 2013
- Riviera: June 2013
- Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall: February 2013
- Jokers Wild: October 2012
- Ellis Island: September 2012
- Tropicana: September 2012
- O’Sheas: April 2012
- Fitzgeralds: January 2012
- Silverton: January 2012
Gold Coast and Tuscany closed their poker rooms in 2011. The exact months are unavailable as Vegas Advantage did not start tracking that data until 2012.
