Paris Las Vegas closes poker room
Paris Las Vegas quietly closed their poker room last week.
This time for good.
Bouncing around from gambling pit in the open to its own room next to the sportsbook, Paris' poker room was battered about after having its hours significantly cut and reduced to just tournaments. If you went looking for the poker room, you often couldn't find it, and some employees even thought it was already shuttered.
We could never quite get a fix on Paris and sister casino Bally's operating under the same management (which itself operates under Harrah's). Chips are interchangeable between both casinos, slot tickets can be read and cashed at both, and both properties even shared some of the same managers.
When Bally's Diamond Lounge closed in favor of consolidating into Paris' lounge, we figured more consolidation would be going on. Moving the poker room into its own room from the casino floor just ended up being in a part of the sportsbook.
It was only a matter of time before the room died a slow death. What dealers were left were offered shifts at the Bally's poker room.
R.I.P., Paris poker room. At least you went out without going electronic.