The short answer is that the Resorts World poker room is closed. It dealt its last hand on March 30, 2026, less than five years after opening, and no future plans for the space have been announced.
Plenty of guides still list it as open, but they’re wrong and likelly just not updated with the latest information. Here’s what happened, and your realistic options on the north end of the Strip.
The newest room in town, briefly
When Resorts World opened on June 24, 2021, its poker room carried a small piece of history: it was the first new Las Vegas casino to open with a poker room since the M Resort in 2009. For a moment, that felt like a bet on poker’s future on the Strip.
The room itself backed it up, modern and comfortable in the way only a brand-new build can be, with fresh tables, good air, and none of the grind-worn feel of the older giants. What it never had was traffic. The north Strip has always been the quiet end, and a poker room lives or dies on footfall.
Why it closed
Resorts World confirmed the closure in March 2026, and the math wasn’t mysterious: too few players, too far from the poker corridor. The property sits a long walk from the Wynn and beyond from the Venetian cluster where Vegas poker actually concentrates, and after Sahara’s room folded in November 2024, Resorts World was the north Strip’s last table game of this kind. Poker rooms feed on neighbors, players hop between rooms when lists are long, and an island room starves.
The closure made it three Strip rooms gone in 20 months, after Sahara (November 2024) and Planet Hollywood (January 2026). More than 40 Las Vegas rooms have closed permanently since 2011, from roughly 60 at the boom’s peak to 17 today. The first new-build poker room in twelve years lasting less than five is about as clear a signal of the consolidation as exists. [Internal links: Sahara closure page, Planet Hollywood closure page, hub]
Where to play instead
The honest news first: the north Strip is now a poker desert. Your options, from nearest:
- Wynn (52 tables): the closest serious room and one of the two biggest in the city, with the deepest tournament calendar on the Strip. If you’re staying at Resorts World, this is your room now.
- Westgate (7 tables): small and modest, near the convention center, useful if you want a quiet low-stakes game without the Wynn’s pace.
- Venetian (50 tables): a rideshare rather than a walk, but open around the clock with a series running most of the year.
For visitors choosing where to stay with poker in mind, the practical lesson of this closure: book mid-Strip or north-center, not north. Our comparison of every room in the city is here.
