Pressemitteilung Make Room For Poker

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Many Las Vegas casinos that were racing to shut down their poker rooms just a few years ago are rushing to reopen or enlarge them now. Gaming operators and poker fans credit the revival of poker rooms on soaring customer demand based on television's new fascination with the game and the appeal of Internet poker sites.

People such as Chris Moneymaker, who parlayed a $40 Internet poker game investment into a $2.4 million first-place prize at last year's World Series of Poker, have become celebrities. Other gamblers hope to emulate his success, something apparent at this year's 35th annual World Series of Poker. "A casino without poker is like ordering a hamburger that doesn't come with fries. The whole thing feels incomplete," joked one local player asked not to be identified.

Cyndy Violette, a veteran of big-money poker tournaments, said poker is beginning to draw more interest from fans of other table games. "I was playing recently in the Bellagio's poker room. I decided to take a break for a while and went out to a blackjack table," she said. "I couldn't believe it. Everyone else at the table was a serious blackjack player. They've played in local blackjack tournaments. I didn't know any of them until I sat down at the table. We start talking poker and they all want to play poker. They're attracted by what they've seen on television."

Casino officials agree that poker is beginning to play a larger role in drawing gamblers from other games. "We've recently added to our poker room, we have more higher-limit games and, yes, we get good cross-over activity," Palms General Manager Jim Hughes said. Doug Dalton, the poker operations director at Bellagio, which has one of the busiest poker rooms in Las Vegas, said: "A lot of casinos don't try too hard to track its players, or if they do they're not happy with the results and don't want to talk about them. But we work very hard at understanding the benefits of a successful card room. We've got some million-dollar players who spend time in the poker room and the pit."

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