Poker Palace Casino is Reborn as Club Fortune

By Scott Roeben, on August 01 2026
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A casino you’re probably never going to visit, Club Fortune, officially opened on July 22, 2026. Technically, reopened. It was previously Poker Palace, which you probably also never went to.

Club Fortune doesn’t have table games, so we aren’t sure it even qualifies as a casino, per se. Casino Royale and Golden Gate are casinos without table games, so we’ll let this one slide.

Club Fortune is in North Las Vegas and is a long-ass drive, no matter where your journey starts. We made the trip, so we’re damned well going to share some photos and video.

It only looks like this for 30 seconds, then the whole place is green. Then it’s blue. A chameleon would be exhausted.

We are pleased to report that we had a perfectly lovely time during our visit to Club Fortune, and at no point were we stabbed, which was a relief.

We kid! North Las Vegas gets a bad rap sometimes. It has a reputation for being rougher than the Las Vegas Valley overall, but data doesn’t really support that perception. They have an auto theft problem, but welcome to America.

On the night we visited, IDs were being checked by security at the casino’s main entrance.

Club Fortune North is located at 2757 Las Vegas Boulevard North, near North Las Vegas Boulevard and Cheyenne Avenue.

It’s about a mile from the Ojos Locos Sports Cantina y Casino, previously Luck Club, previously Speedway.

Truckee Gaming acquired the 4.8-acre Poker Palace site for $20 million in October 2025. Poker Palace opened in 1974.

Truckee Gaming CEO Ferenc Szony described Poker Palace as looking like “if Circus Circus and Excalibur had a baby.” North Las Vegas is pretty good at throwing shade.

Anyway, Club Fortune has about 450 slot machines, one food outlet, a Boomer’s Sportsbook and an impressively long bar.

The teacup sportsbook is adorable.

It is impossible to fit the whole bar into one photo, sorry. See the walkthrough video later in this story.

The Kick Off Bar seats 41.

When we croak, we fully expect it to happen at a video poker bar, so this one is perfectly named.

It’s worth noting that the Longbar at The D seats 32-34 people. And it has “long” right in its name! Club Fortune should definitely talk this up more.

Really, the bar goes on forever.

The gauntlet has been thrown, The. Get busy extending Longbar into the former McDonald’s space, already. Yes, Megabar has 53 seats, but don’t rest on your laurels.

How do we know Kick Off Bar seats 41?

We know this because there’s a piece of art that cleverly humblebrags about this fun fact.

Today’s useless thing nobody would know about if there were not an us.

Club Fortune has a food court consisting of literally one concept, Baskets.

As we frequently say during lovemaking, yes, this is all of it.

Whatever you think Baskets might be, it’s best to adjust your expectations. You hear a lot about “elevated bar food,” well, Baskets is unelevated bar food. For marketing purposes, we’ll use “basic, humble, unpretentious and no-frills.”

Enjoy chicken tenderloins fried to a burnished golden crunch, accompanied by rustic-cut potatoes prepared in artisanal vegetable oil and presented in a bespoke paper-lined vessel.

Yes, we have photos of the menu.

It’s petite but handles the typical case of drunchies just fine.

Here’s the first third of the menu, including the “seafood.” We didn’t try it, but we’re putting quotation marks around it just to have some plausible deniability.

Naming your chicken sandwich after the birth of the universe is a big swing.

Here’s another third of the menu, including burgers, hot dogs and sandwiches. Which is redundant because burgers and hot dogs are sandwiches, and don’t let anyone tell you different.

Hot dogs and burgers are sandwiches because each consists of a filling (meat) served inside bread. Sandwich deniers are obsessed with bread geometry, the weirdos.

Here’s the final section of the Baskets menu.

Sober, nope. Drunk, hold us back.

On the bright side, there’s a 99-cent ice cream that you can almost see with the naked eye.

Objects in photo may be much smaller than they appear.

It’s hard to get too mad about something that costs a dollar, but here’s the promotional photo.

It’s a casino. Learn to live with disappointment.

Here’s another theoretical visual of the 99-cent ice cream.

What’s the e-mail address for the Federal Trade Commission?

Club Fortune North uses the same players club model as its sister casino, Club Fortune in Henderson. Which we didn’t know was a thing until this very sentence. We probably should’ve avoided using “Club Fortune” interchangeably with “Club Fortune North,” but it doesn’t matter because, as we’ve already established, you aren’t going there.

Club Fortune’s promotional playbook includes daily kiosk games, free slot play, point multipliers, drawings, comp multipliers and food-for-play offers. The casino has previously run promotions such as Swipe ‘N Win, bonus cash drawings, VIP days and “Eat and Play” offers tied to point accumulation. Y’know, locals stuff.

All of Truckee Gaming’s casinos are in Nevada: Gold Ranch in Verdi and Dayton; Pioneer Crossing in Dayton, Fernley and Yerington; Club Fortune in Henderson and North Las Vegas; Rail City in Sparks; Carson Plains in Dayton; Silverado in Fernley; and Silver Strike in Silver Springs. There will be a quiz.

Club Fortune is offering some sweet promotions in honor of its reopening, including no ATM fees and a deal where they’ll “refund” your losses up to $100. It’s returned to players in the form of free play, but that’s still a fine gift to welcome gamblers back after an extended closure for the renovation.

Truckee initially expected a straightforward renovation, but the project expanded when workers encountered decades of outdated infrastructure, delaying the opening for months.

The place looks great, though, and has that new casino smell.

Here’s a quick walk-through for posterity.

The Guest Services desk doubles as the casino cage. We could’ve saved 10 minutes if somebody had mentioned that prior to our visit.

We took a photo of the cage, a big no-no in casinos, before we knew it was the cage. Oopsie.

If you like a casino with a personal feel, as opposed to a monolithic corporate warehouse vibe, Club Fortune is probably right up your alley.

Staff is helpful and friendly, and cocktail servers ask if you’d like change for your $5 tip, a good litmus test for the kind of crowd a casino gets.

Bonus points for restroom entrance flair.

Locals casinos tend to appeal to people who live nearby.

Even if Club Fortune North isn’t on your Las Vegas to-do list, you need to stay in the loop about all casino-related developments so you’ll have that knowledge handy in case you are on a game show. We were on “Catch 21” and our Las Vegas knowledge proved invaluable. We also got to hug Alfonso Ribeiro. Club Fortune didn’t come up during the show, oddly, but we won $5,000 which we have since distributed to various Las Vegas casinos, thus illustrating the circularity of life.

What were we talking about, again?