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Thread: Would you check into a Vegas casino just to play poker online?

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    On my trip to Caesars recently, I couldn't help but see the signs and banners advertising how you could play poker online from your hotel room. There were even signs at the hotel cage, and around the casino.

    Would you really travel to Vegas, check into a casino hotel room, just to play online poker?

    As you know, online poker is legal in Nevada (and Caesars operates an online site) but you must physically be in the state to play.

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    It is a weird promo. All these years the point has been to keep people out of their rooms.

    I would never do it -- I have to think the people doing it are in the top tier of players, so why play against people better than me?

    This brings up another interesting point. Making sports betting and keno and stuff available on mobile devices for people visiting LV would seem to be to train them to gamble offshore when they aren't in LV. So unless the casino industry very quickly makes interstate wagering of this kind legal, they seem to be cutting their own throats as people may blow their gambling resources offshore when they return home.

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    Originally Posted by redietz View Post
    It is a weird promo. All these years the point has been to keep people out of their rooms.
    Exactly. But when it comes to poker, the casino only charges a "fee" for sitting at the table. You don't play poker against the house, so poker revenue is not exactly "big" for casino brick and mortar operations. Playing online poker in a room might boost food and beverage sales -- room service and that is a money maker for the casinos.

    If the casinos allow hand held gaming are the devices capable of working in the hotel rooms? I thought I saw something that said the devices could only work in common areas such as the pool and restaurants and if so that would actually boost casino gambling revenue without taking revenue away from the casino floor.

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    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
    Exactly. But when it comes to poker, the casino only charges a "fee" for sitting at the table. You don't play poker against the house, so poker revenue is not exactly "big" for casino brick and mortar operations. Playing online poker in a room might boost food and beverage sales -- room service and that is a money maker for the casinos.
    This online poker thing in Nevada is mainly designed for the poker pro's and semi pro's (I think). Most of them spend a lot of time in Vegas and are used to playing online a lot. Heck, a large portion of them made their fortune there and turned poker into a worldwide hype (these poker celebrities bring in 10.000's of average players who are willing to lose money while learning to become a pro). The casinos are after the poker player's money with as little effort as possible. In my opinion, people travelling to Vegas to sit in their room to play poker online as much as possible need to have their heads examined.

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