Las Vegas poker rooms fold as casino tourism plummets to record lows

Tourism has been taking a deed successful Sin City — and present comes quality of different poker country closure connected the Las Vegas Strip.

A Resorts World representative confirmed to Fox News Digital that its poker rooms volition beryllium discontinued connected March 30. 

"However, we volition beryllium introducing caller gaming opportunities to regenerate the poker room," the typical said.

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The typical did not elaborate connected what caller gaming offerings would instrumentality the room’s place. It presently features No Limit Texas Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha and mixed games.

The closure volition permission conscionable 8 poker rooms unfastened connected the Las Vegas Strip, according to the blog "Vital Vegas."

Resorts World announces they volition beryllium closing their poker country March 30.  (iStock)

Robby Starbuck, a blimpish activistic and the big of "The Robby Starbuck Show," antecedently told Fox News Digital that in-person gambling is becoming little popular. 

"Now astir everyone nether 40 who bets seems to do it online," Starbuck said.

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"I don’t cognize 1 idiosyncratic nether property 40 who goes to Vegas regularly to stake oregon play slots," helium added. 

"This inclination volition proceed with younger radical because, honestly, our minds are wired differently."

The closure of a poker country by Resorts World (not pictured) volition permission conscionable 8 poker rooms connected the Las Vegas Strip. (Michael Anthony for Fox News Digital)

Las Vegas Strip gaming gross fell 11% twelvemonth implicit year, from $840,093,428 successful January 2025 to $747,655,527 successful January 2026, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board (NGCB).

Nevada’s nonrestricted gaming licensees reported a full gaming triumph of astir $1.35 cardinal successful January of this year, dropping 6.55% compared to the aforesaid period past year, according to the NGCB.

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The online gambling marketplace is expected to scope a projected gross of $22.2 cardinal by 2030, according to Grand View Research.

Meanwhile, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LCVA) precocious released its year-end summary for 2025 arsenic good — and those numbers are worrisome to many.

Over 38 cardinal radical visited Las Vegas successful 2025 — down 7.5% from 2024. (Ashley J. DiMella/Fox News Digital)

There were 38,545,700 radical who visited Sin City — down 7.5% from 2024, the study said. 

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The highest visitation twelvemonth ever recorded successful Las Vegas was successful 2019 — with 42,523,700 radical coming by.

That was earlier a dip during the COVID pandemic, according to information that LCVA posted connected its website.

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The noted visitor measurement successful 2025 closely mirrors the levels seen successful 2000, 2002 and 2003.