Caesars Palace Poker Room Returns Home After Taking One for the Team

By Scott Roeben, on November 20 2025
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Gambling Las Vegas

A popular poker room has reopened at Caesars Palace and is set to make dozens of dollars for the mid-Strip resort.

We love poking fun at poker rooms with white hot references to the fact they don’t make much money for casinos, while reminding players to tip their dealers, because then we are a white-hot poker poker room poker and toke provoker.

Translation: Slow news day.

The number of poker rooms on The Strip has been cut in half since the pandemic. Poker rooms are the only place we condone mask use, even today. All due respect.

Poker rooms are, in fact, an amenity for guests, not unlike spas, fitness centers and escorts.

The poker room is back to its sportsbook-adjacent space. Sportsbooks also don’t make much money for casinos, and we’d whip up some hilarious wordplay highlighting that fact, but good luck finding anything that rhymes with “sportsbook.” We once mentioned short cooks and were immediately canceled. Never again.

The Caesars Palace poker room was uprooted in August 2024 because the resort needed a spot for high rollers to play while their fancy new high limit slot salon was being built.

Thanks for making this new high limit slot salon possible, roving poker room.

In May 2025, a temporary poker room opened in the resort’s Appian Way retail promenade near the statue of buck naked David.

That’s right, it’s “buck naked.” It’s a reference to deer. Male deer are bucks. Their skin is buck skin, so if they have no skin, they’re naked. Which is a lot more disgusting than you might expect, so please stop using that phrase.

In other rabbit holes, the David depicted in the statue replica at Caesars Palace is the one from the Bible. The statue is David, who later became the king of Israel, before he goes into battle with Goliath. Before David became king, he was so poor he could not afford a last name, other than “of Bethlehem,” which made it real interesting when he tried to get through security at the airport.

Heads up, this Seinfeld joke is now so old, even we took five minutes to get it.

The “Pool Guy” episode of “Seinfeld” recently celebrated a birthday. It first aired on Nov. 16, 1995. That’s 30 years ago in TV years, but “shrinkage” is the gift that keeps on giving.

As we were going through our photos looking for one of the old poker room at Caesars Palace (tucked away near what is now Omnia nightclub), we came across a photo we took of Jason Alexander at a poker event in 2011.

This was at Rio, but it’s definitely poker-related and at the time Caesars Entertainment owned Rio, so boom.

We found another photo of Jason Alexander talking to Robin Leach, who would later become our scoop arch enemy. Leach died in 2018 at 76 years old.

What happens to these photos if something happens to us? We must be protected at all costs.

Robin Leach is one of the main reasons casinos provide escorts as one of their amenities. Don’t get your panties in a bunch, he was a pal toward the end.

It’s actually crappy the Review-Journal and Sun removed his work from their sites. If Casino.org does that to us, we’re coming back to haunt them.

The newly reopened poker room gives players a little more elbow room, with two tables jettisoned (now, there are 16 tables rather than 18).

The poker room has its higher visibility back, along with a sweeter pot for players: They get $3 per hour in comp value (up from $2 per hour) for live‑action cash games.

When you sit down to play poker at a casino like Caesars, they swipe your players club card into their Bravo/Genesis system. They then keep track of your seat, your time in the game and the total hours played to determine comps.

Because poker rooms only make money from the “rake,” a house commission taken from each pot, they want players to play longer, hence the perks.

How much is a typical rake at Caesars Palace? According to the Internet, which is infallible, in a $1/$3 No-Limit Hold ‘Em game, the rake is 10% of the pot, capped at $6. For $2/$5 No-Limit Hold ‘Em, the rake is 5% of the pot, capped at $6. Hey, the house gotta eat.  Or something.

It’s called a “rake” because back in the day, dealers would use an adorable miniature rake to pull a portion of each pot toward them. We can’t recall seeing those baby rakes used in Las Vegas poker rooms, but we don’t play live poker often.

A physical rake was useful in old-timey card rooms because dealers couldn’t be accused of palming chips. Cameras are the new rakes.

The one time we played live poker was in Laughlin or Reno. We can’t remember, and who cares where it was if it wasn’t Las Vegas? Anyway, we started playing without knowing anything about live poker. At which point, naturally, we started winning every hand. Our fellow players were so happy to witness our good fortune, and by that we mean they wanted to murder us with a tiny rake.

While poker is a game of skill, sort of, there’s also a lot of luck involved. We were very lucky that day.

The only other thing we remember about that poker session was one of the guys at the table was wearing a Super Bowl ring. He still has that ring because we got embarrassed at winning so much, we quit, otherwise that ring would be in our dresser drawer to this day.

So, now you know where the poker room at Caesars Palace is! If you thought we were going to post a story with one concise, informative sentence and a photo, you do not know this blog at all.