Venetian Las Vegas to Relocate Poker Room to Grand Canal Shoppes

The Venetian Las Vegas casino resort is moving its poker room to a new location, and Director of Poker Operations Tommy LaRosa put out a video showing how to get there from the old location. 

If anything, it looks like poker players will get in their steps. 

The new, expanded poker room will no longer be on the casino floor. It will instead be on the second floor of the Grand Canal Shoppes, between the Venetian and the Palazzo. This is the area where currently tourists can take gondola rides through an imaginary Venice filled with high-end retailers and four-star/dollar-sign restaurants. 

The new room will feature 50 tables, up from the current 35, and occupy a 14,000 square foot space. No opening date has been set, but LaRosa says in the video it’s coming “late this summer.”

Casinos.com reached out to LaRosa for additional information and we were hoping a sneak peek behind the construction walls, but did not hear back prior to publication. 

Though it hasn’t been disclosed how much is being spent on the new digs, LaRosa has previously called it a “significant investment.” The new room will feature USB-enabled charging stations at every seat and sports betting kiosks nearby. It will be non-smoking like virtually all poker rooms are these days, but also will be further removed from the noise and smoke of the casino floor.

The new Venetian poker room also promises to be particularly welcoming to poker vloggers, with a special area for recording hands and a table for live-streaming.  

This comes at a time when other once-prominent poker rooms in Las Vegas, like the one at Caesars Palace, are rumored to be shutting down.

The Venetian opened its poker room in 2006 with 39 tables. At the time, at 11,000 square feet, it was the third largest poker room on the Las Vegas Strip. In 2012, it was reconfigured as the Sands Poker Room.