The Las Vegas Strip is Losing a Poker Room ... Again
The Las Vegas Strip, for the second time already this year, will lose another poker room at the end of the month.
Resorts World, which opened in 2021, has 29 poker tables and played host to the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) the past few years. Attendance at the 2025 NAPT was down significantly compared to 2024 in many events, including the Main Event declining from 895 entries to 738.
Rumors began swirling around the tournament area during last year's NAPT that the Resorts World's poker room days were numbered. Those rumors have now been confirmed, and the card room will cease operations effective March 29.
What's Going on in Las Vegas?
Las Vegas tourism dropped over 8% year-over-year in 2025, and that appears to have carried over to the local poker scene. Planet Hollywood's poker room, eight months after reopening for the first time since COVID, closed at the end of January. Resorts World will become the second card room on the Strip to shut down already this year.
The city, after Resorts closes, will still have 18 poker rooms in operation and eight on the Strip. That's more than any other U.S. city. But those numbers have been on a decline since the pandemic.
The Las Vegas Strip, 10 years ago, had many other card rooms, including The Strat (formerly Stratosphere), Harrah's, Mirage, Monte Carlo (now Park MGM), Luxor, Excalibur, Treasure Island, Flamingo and even a few poker tables at Circus Circus and Riviera not all that long ago. Times have changed for the Las Vegas poker scene, thanks in large part to the pandemic and now the city's tourism decline.
But it isn't all bad. In fact, the Vegas poker scene is still crushing it in many ways, including record attendance each year at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), and series such as the Wynn Millions, which is currently underway, bringing in massive fields. Not to mention all the cash game action at Aria, Bellagio, Wynn, Venetian, and elsewhere.
Poker isn't dead in Las Vegas, but closures such as Resorts World and Planet Hollywood certainly don't help the narrative.
