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Station Casinos Reopening Poker Room Near Vegas

Posted on: September 29, 2025, 06:55h.

Last updated on: September 29, 2025, 06:57h.

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Las Vegas is getting one of its poker rooms back. Station Casinos announced Monday that live poker will return to the Green Valley Ranch in Henderson, a 15-minute drive from the Strip.

Green Valley Ranch will soon become only the first Las Vegas poker room closed during the pandemic to reopen since 2021. (Image: phgmeetings.com)

The poker room, which the locals casino closed during COVID, will reopen by December, with 16 tables instead of the 22 (according to PokerAtlas.com) that it had pre-pandemic.

Open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the room will deal fixed-limit hold’em, no-limit hold’em, pot-limit Omaha, and Omaha hi/lo in cash games and tournaments.

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Green Valley Ranch’s poker room will be only the 19th in a town that had more than 60 in the early-aughts. (It would have been the 20th, but the Poker Palace Casino will close on October 1. And its new owners, Truckee Gaming LLC, are planning to reopen it without poker.)

Around 40 Las Vegas poker rooms have closed since the poker boom started going bust around 2012. After COVID, Green Valley Ranch’s poker room, located steps from its sportsbook, was repurposed as a smoke-free slot machine area.

Poker rooms don’t typically return once they’re converted to slot areas. That’s because, per square foot, slots generate much more revenue for casinos. (Poker provides no edge to the house. Casinos don’t directly benefit from player losses and, instead, earn rake, a small percentage taken from each pot in cash games, or tournament fees.)

As Stations admitted in a press release, however, it was customer demand that was responsible.

“We took our guests’ feedback loud and clear and are pleased to announce the return of poker, among the many exciting upgrades happening at the property,” said Ken Janssen, Green Valley Ranch’s GM and VP. (Green Valley Ranch is in the midst of a $200 million remodel.)

Here are all the poker rooms in the Las Vegas area that will be left standing after the Poker Palace closes…

Aria
Bellagio
Boulder Station
Caesars Palace
Golden Nugget
Horseshoe
Mandalay Bay
MGM Grand
Orleans
Planet Hollywood
Red Rock
Resorts World
Santa Fe Station
Skyline
South Point
Venetian
Westgate
Wyn

Station Casinos operates three of them: at Boulder Station, Red Rock and Sante Fe Station.

Corey Levitan joined Casino.org in 2022 after a long career covering Las Vegas. He currently covers entertainment, dining and gaming news in Las Vegas.

Corey spent six years covering the Vegas Strip for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, where he also wrote the most popular humor column in the city’s history. (For “Fear and Loafing,” he tried out 176 Vegas jobs, including poker player, blackjack dealer and Follie Bergere dancer.)

Corey has won more than 100 local, state and national awards for his journalism, which has also appeared in Rolling Stone, New York Magazine and the New York Post.

Corey is a New York native whose hobbies include playing guitar, trying to be a better husband, and arguing with strangers on Facebook.

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