Published on: January 27, 2026, 02:17h.
Updated on: January 27, 2026, 02:46h.
- The poker room at Planet Hollywood is shutting down permanently on January 31.
- It reopened less than a year ago, but its location away from casino foot traffic severely limited its success.
- This closure reduces the number of active poker rooms on the Strip to just nine, with a total of 18 in all of Las Vegas.
Just under a year after Caesars Entertainment moved the Planet Hollywood poker room to a more secluded mezzanine-level area, the company has officially confirmed that the venue will cease operations on January 31.
The shutdown marks the end of a brief revival for a space that reopened in May 2025 after almost four years without poker at the venue. The new area featured 23 tables and took over the previous London Club, a private event space measuring 4,800 square feet on the resort’s second floor.
This closure decreases the number of poker rooms operating in the Las Vegas Valley to 18, according to industry reports from Vegas Advantage. Out of these, only nine will remain on the Strip:
- Aria
- Bellagio
- Caesars Palace
- Horseshoe
- Mandalay Bay
- MGM Grand
- Resorts World
- Venetian
- Wynn
Downfall of the River
This month, the poker room at Planet Hollywood briefly spurred optimism by organizing 18 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit events. (Caesars sold the WSOP last year to Toronto’s NSUS Group Inc. for $500 million, retaining operational control of the tournament for the next 19 years.)
Despite promising tournament participation, there was a lack of daily cash-game traffic. As noted by Poker.org, the room’s mezzanine location made it “invisible” to casual visitors, often resulting in just a single short-handed game being played at any time.
Following this closure, the Caesars group will be left with only two poker rooms: one each at Caesars Palace and Horseshoe. The company described the closure as a strategic move aimed at better aligning with current demand and improving the player experience.
Employees from the Planet Hollywood poker room will be reassigned to different roles within the casino, as stated by the company.
The closure of Planet Hollywood’s poker room illustrates the ongoing decline of poker in Las Vegas, where slot machines have taken precedence due to their low-maintenance nature and higher profitability compared to poker’s modest revenue model. (In poker, the house merely earns a percentage of each pot, typically around 10%, capped at $4 to $6 per hand.)
Since the onset of the poker boom in the early 2000s, roughly 40 poker rooms have closed, particularly since the decline began around 2012. The previous Strip poker room closure occurred at the Sahara in November 2024, when it was replaced by slot machines.
Caesars has not disclosed what will replace the Planet Hollywood poker room.