Vancouver Casino Poker Room

Where to Play Poker In Vancouver?

The best places to play live poker games in Vancouver is at the poker rooms in the local casinos, I recommend the River Rock Casino for its large tournaments and soft cash games.

Vancouver Casino Poker Rooms

Parq Casino Poker Room - Daily poker cash games and poker tournaments, Located in Coquitlam BC. Offers Texas hold em limit and no limit as well as Omaha on 12 poker tables. Find out more at Parq Casino Poker Cash Games & Tournaments

1. Edgewater Casino Vancouver's eight-table poker room is open 24/7 and offers a variety of Limit and No-Limit Texas Hold’em games as well as Omaha. The poker rake is $1-3 No Limit game to a maximum of $7 and $1-2 Pot Limit Omaha game to a maximum of $10. Players can enjoy cash games as well as tournament play year round.
2. . Address: 750 Pacific Boulevard, Vancouver. Phone: (604) 687-3343, Poker Room: (604) 408-4060. Games: Limit, 4 tables $4/$8 Texas Hold Em with 1 table of Kill No Limit Hold'em, $1/2 NL200, $2/5 NL500-1000, sometimes higher. Time: 9am-6am Great Canadian Casino - Holiday Inn - NOTE: This casino closed permanently in late 2007.

The Poker Room's 24/7 high stakes poker allows players to go “all in, all the time” and includes more than 40 tables offering various games and tournaments of Limit and No Limit Texas Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Lo and 7-Card Stud. Drinks: The poker bar is opened daily, 24 hours a day. Food: Temporarily closed.

Parq Vancouver

39 Smithe Street

Vancouver Brittish Columbia

1-604-683-7277

Hard Rock Casino Vancouver Poker Room - Here in what used to be the Boulevard Casino there are 5 Ultimate Texas Holdem tables, Four Card Poker, Fast Action Holdem Poker and 2 Fortune Pai Gow poker Tables. All of these are casino poker not your classic Texas Holdem or Omaha. Table games run 24 / 7. Find out more at Hard Rock Casino Poker

Hard Rock Casino Vancouver

2080 United Boulivard

Coquitlam Brittish Columbia

1-604-523-6888

River Rock Casino Poker Room - Home of the BC Poker Championships. The 18 poker table room is Canada's largest and offers a variety of live cash games for limit, no limit, Omaha, Omaha 8 or better, and Seven Card Stud. Located at Find out more at: River Rock Casino Poker

River Rock Casino Resort

8811 River Road

Grand Villa Casino Vancouver Poker Room

Richmond Brittish Columbia

1-604-273-1895

Victoria Poker Rooms

Where to Play Poker in Victoria?

Elements Poker Room - Used to be the Roayl Casino in Victoria. Features Seven Card Stud but no Texas Hold em. Find out more at Elements Casino

Elements Casino Victoria

1708 Old Island Highway

Victoria Brittish Columbia

1-250-391-0311

Vancouver Poker Rooms vs Online Poker Sites

Well we have all heard that there is nothing like playing at your local Vancouver poker room or even Las Vegas, but what would be some of the advantages of playing poker online? There are a few advantages compared to playing at Vancouver poker rooms, the main ones are: You can play multiple tables at once and the number of hands per hour is increased by a factor of 4 to 12; The house rake is much lower sometimes as little as half online.

You don't have to travel anywhere - you can play anytime you want; You can change games in an instant; Play at smaller or larger stakes than are available at your local casino; tournaments run far faster and you can play in multiple tournaments at the same time for larger cash prizes. Well that's just a few of them not to mention that you can play at home in your underwear! Below are listed the top poker sites to play poker at home in Vancouver.

Best Online Poker Sites for Vancouver BC

Poker rooms slowly started to reopen at casinos in Pennsylvania nearly seven months after the casinos and subsequently poker games were shut down in March as a result of coronavirus.

Due to the social nature of the game, poker rooms were not permitted to welcome back players when casinos started reopening in June.

Five poker rooms reopened as of mid-November with Parx, the state’s largest, set to return in December. The city of Philadelphia added restrictions included another shutdown of Rivers Casino Philadelphia until at least Jan 1, taking away another option for live poker.

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One poker room continues to remain conspicuously quiet – Wind Creek Casino.

Wins and losses for Wind Creek

Wind Creek is one of the larger poker rooms in Pennsylvania rooms with 26 tables. Located in Bethlehem, PA, it’s in a prime spot to attract visitors from New York City and northern New Jersey.

A representative from Wind Creek told PlayPennsylvania they had no update on when the poker room would open. On Nov. 18, Wind Creek opened the Betfred sportsbook. The sportsbook is the first for Wind Creek in the United States and the third US retail location for Betfred Sports.

Wind Creek claimed a number of honors from Casino Player Magazine in October including being named best:

• Overall Gaming Resort
• Table Games
• Poker Room

However, it hasn’t been all good news at Wind Creek Casino. Wind Creek announced layoffs on Sept. 24 that affected about 20% of its workforce. Total revenue in October was $33.1 million, a 16.41% decrease from October 2019.

Wind Creek provided the following statement to LehighValleyLive regarding recent layoffs:

“With recent business volumes significantly lower than we had hoped, we were forced to make this incredibly difficult decision. The hospitality and gaming industries have been crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe that our reduction in workforce will in the long term positively affect our future success.”

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In addition, Wind Creek also announced the permanent closure of Emeril’s Fish House.

A Wind Creek employee provided an update on some of the happenings at Wind Creek including the poker room. The person agreed to share their insight based on the condition of anonymity.

“When Wind Creek shut down in mid-March, they could’ve easily had a mass layoff but they didn’t. They continued to pay all employees until May 31, 2020. Even those that work on tips got an average hourly wage and they continued to pay for benefits. Most casinos around the country just straight up laid off hundreds of dealers back in the spring.”

On June 1, the poker room employees were furloughed. They stopped getting paid but the full-time workers could keep their health benefits as long as bi-weekly premiums were paid. On Sept. 30, all poker room employees were laid off/terminated and the poker room was made into a high-limit slots parlor.

“We were told it was being turned into a high-limit slots parlor for the time being. Obviously a casino makes way more money on slot machines than a poker room, so I believe they’re focusing on that right now.”

The employee said it is their belief along with other employees that the poker room is not closed permanently and will eventually reopen.

“The plan is to reopen the poker room in the future. But who knows what the future entails considering what is looking like another round of closures. Wind Creek does see the value in the poker room but I think right now they’re trying to recover from the major financial hit they took during the 3.5 months we were closed up. The client base of the poker room really enjoyed playing at Wind Creek. I know some of them think it’s closed permanently but that isn’t likely the case.”

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Poker pales in revenue comparison

In fiscal year 2019/2020, poker accounted for $37 million in total revenue across the state’s ten poker rooms. That number pales in comparison to the $607 million in total revenue by all other table games.

Casinos, trying to recover from an unprecedented financial hit as a result of COVID closures and operating at reduced capacity, are likely allocating resources to games that generate more revenue.

In late August, PlayPennsylvaniaexclusively reported that Harrah’s Philadelphia would not reopen their WSOP poker room.

Meanwhile, PokerStars PA remains the only online poker option in the state – for now.

Pennsylvania poker revenue by casino

As you can see from the table below, live poker is not the biggest revenue earner for PA casinos (though it can help drive other verticals).

2019/2020 Fiscal Year Poker Revenue in PA (figures from the PGCB):