Latest Las Vegas Poker Room to Fold: Planet Hollywood

Posted on: January 27, 2026, 02:17h. 

Last updated on: January 27, 2026, 02:46h.

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  • Planet Hollywood’s poker room will close for good on January 31
  • It had reopened less than a year ago, away from casino foot traffic, which pretty much doomed it
  • The shutdown will leave only nine active Strip poker rooms, 18 in Las Vegas overall

Less than a year after Caesars Entertainment relocated its Planet Hollywood poker room to a mezzanine-level space off its casino floor, the gaming company has announced that the room will permanently close on January 31.

Table games inside the Planet Hollywood poker room in November 2025. (Image: Shutterstock)

The closure ends a short-lived second act for a room that reopened in May 2025 after nearly four years without poker at the property. The new 23‑table space occupied the former London Club, a 4,800‑square‑foot private event venue on the resort’s second floor.

The closure also reduces the number of active poker rooms in the Las Vegas Valley to 18, according to industry tracking by Vegas Advantage. Of those, only nine will be on the Strip:

  1. Aria
  2. Bellagio
  3. Caesars Palace
  4. Horseshoe
  5. Mandalay Bay
  6. MGM Grand
  7. Resorts World
  8. Venetian
  9. Wynn

Dead on the River

Earlier this month, the poker room at Planet Hollywood signaled hope of a revival, hosting 18 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit events. (Caesars sold the WSOP last year to Toronto-based NSUS Group Inc. for $500 million, but gets to operate the tournament for the next 19 years.)

The strong tournament turnout, however, didn’t translate into sustainable daily cash‑game traffic. According to Poker.org, even during busy casino periods, the mezzanine location left the room “invisible” to casual foot traffic, often resulting in only a single short‑handed game running.

This will leave the Caesars empire with two poker rooms — at Caesars Palace and Horseshoe. Caesars framed the shutdown as a strategic consolidation, stating that it is “designed to better match current demand and enhance the player experience.”

Planet Hollywood’s former poker room employees will be reassigned to other positions in the casino, according to the company’s statement.

Planet Hollywood’s closure continues a long-term contraction of Las Vegas poker in favor of slot machines, which don’t require human supervision and vastly outperform poker’s modest rake-based revenue. (In poker, the house doesn’t compete against its guests. It only earns money via a percentage — typically 10% of the pot with a maximum cap of $4 to $6 per hand.)

Roughly 40 poker rooms have folded since the early-aughts poker boom started busting around 2012. The most recent Strip closure before this occurred at the Sahara in November 2024, when the casino replaced its poker room with slot machines.

Caesars didn’t say what would replace the Planet Hollywood poker room.