Las Vegas Locals’ Casino, Poker Palace, Being Reimagined by Truckee Gaming
Posted on: September 11, 2025, 08:10h.
Last updated on: September 11, 2025, 10:01h.
- Poker Palace is undergoing a complete renovation
- The North Las Vegas casino is a locals’ gaming hall with smoking and nonsmoking rooms
- Truckee Gaming plans to overhaul the locals’ joint
Poker Palace, a North Las Vegas locals’ casino, isn’t closing after all.
Last month, Casino.org reported on Poker Palace, located at 2757 Las Vegas Blvd., being sold. At the time, rumors circulated that the rundown locals’ casino was shuttering for good after more than 50 years in business.
During this week’s Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB) meeting, it was revealed that the new owner of Poker Palace — Reno-based Truckee Gaming — plans to renovate the locals’ casino. Owned by Ferenc Szony, whose career in the Nevada gaming industry began at The Sands Regent and Affinity Gaming, Truckee, founded in 2013, plans to embark on a full overhaul of the 4.8-acre property.
Truckee Gaming owns and operates 10 similarly sized locals’ casinos throughout Nevada, including Gold Ranch Casino & RV Resort in Verdi, Gold Ranch Casino in Dayton, Club Fortune in Henderson, and three Pioneer Crossing Casinos in Fernley, Dayton, and Yerington.
Poker Palace is located near Nellis Air Force Base.
Las Vegas Proper
Truckee Gaming’s acquisition of Poker Palace is its first investment in Las Vegas proper. During the renovation, hourly workers, company officials told the NGCB, will be let go. Salaried employees will have the choice to work at other Truckee properties.
The July 29 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) filing by Poker Palace informed the state that 126 employees will be impacted by the temporary closure. The layoffs include 17 table game dealers, 10 security officers, three slot attendants, nine cooks, six bingo agents, a casino manager, and a casino supervisor.
Poker Palace’s sale prompted some in the national media to report that it was the latest sign of Las Vegas’ struggles. That wasn’t necessarily true, as Poker Palace has little to do with the Las Vegas Strip economy.
While gross gaming revenue on the Las Vegas Strip was down 1.2% over the past 12 months, casino win in North Las Vegas was up 3%. Locals’ casinos reported GGR of $291.8 million during the August 2024 through July 2025 period.
Poker Palace History
Poker Palace has been owned by the Coleman family throughout its more than five decades in business. Known for its low table minimums, with some blackjack tables still just $3 a hand, the 25,900-square-foot casino has 300 slot machines, a race and sportsbook, and electronic and live bingo.
Poker Palace has long offered guests the option to cash their paychecks, with the chance of having their pay matched up to $2,500 by spinning a wheel.
In 2008, Jeff Haney of the Las Vegas Sun awarded Poker Palace a zero-star rating.
An extremely low-limit locals joint. We do mean locals. If you’re a tourist and you end up here, you’re probably very, very lost,” Hanley wrote.
Poker Palace’s Maddy’s Paddy Café has kept patrons filled with cheap eats and drinks. Truckee plans to overhaul the restaurant space through the renovation.
Last Comments ( 3 )
Used to go there weekly for their cheap steaks :)
The strip is declining because people always believed Las Vegas to be cheap and clean Now it is expensive and dirty. Never had competition when it was cheap. Makes no sense with all the competition for prices to be higher. It should be cheaper than all the other state casinos. People would still come HERE. They are killing the goose that laid the golden egg, Las Vegas. Poker Palace is cheap and worn out. Locals aren't interested in $20 parking & $300 minimum to gamble for more than an hour. If you want to have fun and meet interesting locals, PP is The Place to Be. We'll pray the new owners can keep prices down, keep their popular poker tournaments as is, and clean up the wear & tear from generations of fun. May the Poker Palace re-open updated but still a familiar place for us local resdients.
Seems like they'd be foolish not to, Dan.