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List of poker room rates for Las Vegas poker rooms reviews Reviews and trip reports. Bellagio (702) 693-7291: $139: $189: 5 hrs/day play required. If I could only play poker at only one poker room for the rest of my life, I would pick Bellagio. Great selection in games. 1/3 NL, 2/5 NL, 5/10 NL, 10/20 NL and bigger. Limit and mixed games too. Games are full of tourists and is beatable. Obviously bigger games are tougher. It is a well run and busy poker room.
With live poker reopening, one of MGM’s major poker properties is taking a lead in the efforts for the game’s return. The Bellagio became the second Las Vegas Strip property to reopen its poker room last week.
The casino joins the Venetian and Caesars Palace, which opened the same day as Bellagio on June 18. Players will find six-handed poker with plexiglass partitions between players in a more spacious table and room environment.
On June 20, USPoker spoke with Bellagio director of poker room operations Mike Williams on site. The property is making an effort to return to normal as much as possible.
- Get set for hand after hand of classic poker action. Our Las Vegas poker room is one of the stops on the famed World Poker Tour. This stylish 7,000 square feet space houses 40 tables and two high-limit areas, the most prominent of which is the Legends Room-an exclusive two-table enclave named to honor pokers greatest players.
- A view of the high limit slots room from our last visit to Bellagio: Video Poker at Bellagio. Limits go beyond the typical $1 machines going up to $2, $5, and $10, but you will be hard pressed to find a video poker game for less than 25 cents.
- The Bellagio Poker Room opened in 1998 and offers 36 tables of poker action at all limits. One of the most well known Las Vegas venues, the Bellagio Poker Room is home to 'Bobby's Room' a special area within the poker room that is reserved for the highest of stakes, often with a minimum buy in of $20,000.
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After months of casino closings, poker room managers are moving to get players back to the tables. State guidelines call for five-handed play at poker rooms without dividers or plexiglass partitions.
However, the Nevada Gaming Control Board approved Bellagio’s request for six-handed poker games with partitions.
Upon entering the poker room, guests are greeted by service staff at an open and spacious entryway. Players are seated by staff when a table has an opening, often with no wait depending on game and time.
There is a waiting list screen mounted to the wooden wall structure outside the poker room entryway. Players can also get poker room and game updates on the Bravo Pokerapp.
The poker room now has 23 poker tables, down from 37, and is open for play 24 hours a day. On Saturday, the spacious room had 16 tables running with more than half spreading $1-3 and $2-5 No-Limit Hold’em.
The Bellagio is one of the few Vegas rooms regularly offering more high-limit games. There were also $5-10, $10-20, and $20-40 No Limit Hold’em games and a $1-2 Pot Limit Omaha (PLO). Staff also offered a waiting list for high-limit mixed games.
Players returning to a safe environment
Williams noted a number of regular players have returned. The property has numerous cleanliness protocols in place. Dealers are wearing masks and sanitizing the playing area and seats for new players.
“The feedback has been very positive from the players and guests,” Williams said. “The poker room is swapping playing cards every four hours. The cards and poker chips are disinfected by the property on schedule.”
The plexiglass partitions provide better health and safety measures while meeting social and physical distancing guidelines.
One Bellagio guest said the clear dividers are “less intrusive and preferred” over no partition.
On June 24, the state added a mandate for players to wear masks. The previous rule called for masks if there are no plexiglass partitions. Nearly half the players at Bellagio wore masks on Saturday before the new rule.
New perks welcome Bellagio players
Expensive parking fees have long been a complaint of casino players. Williams noted guests will now find free self parking and free cocktail service. However, no food or non-playing poker guests are allowed in the poker room per safety guidelines.
Williams previously worked as poker room manager at Aria, another MGM property on the Las Vegas Strip. Aria hasn’t announced a reopening date yet.
While at Aria, Williams noted the growing interest in PLO and plans to offer more games at Bellagio.
“It’s better when a poker room can expand and have more games,” he said. “We want to grow the $1-2 PLO game at Bellagio.”
TV screens remain mounted throughout the Bellagio poker room. Sports bettors are in luck with one of Las Vegas premier sportsbooks adjacent to the facility.
Checking out the day’s sports action, horse racing, and odds screens is simple. Wagering windows are available and bettors can also use the BetMGM app while playing poker.
The sports bar lounge is right outside the poker room and was also active on Belmont Stakes day, but with fewer masks noted. Guests enjoyed cocktails and some spacious interaction.
Live poker’s return comes after major online growth
While online poker has seen substantial growth during the COVID-19 crisis, it’s encouraging to see live poker return. Poker is the ultimate social game, and while tournaments are not yet in play at Bellagio, patience is the protocol just as it is when playing poker.
The same goes for those hoping for the return of a live World Series of Poker at the Rio. That property is currently closed and the live WSOP is delayed until fall.
However, players in Nevada and New Jersey can play for bracelets beginning July 1 at WSOP.com. The WSOP Online tournaments feature one bracelet event daily.
Buy-ins range from $400 to $3,200 and players can qualify for events in multiple daily online satellites. On July 19, the series expands for international players on GGPoker.
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Live poker may not have returned completely, but the WSOP Online adds even more buzz to the industry as a whole.
One of the most famous high-stakes poker rooms in the world recently underwent a name change.
The high-stakes area of the Bellagio poker room on the Las Vegas Strip, known to poker fans as “Bobby’s Room,” has been renamed “Legends Room.”
Since its inception, Bobby’s Room has been home to some of the biggest poker games on the planet. The game usually featured a mix with limits of at least $400-$800, but during the World Series of Poker, games are generally much larger, with limits of $1,000-$2,000 and up. At the time of this article’s publishing, there was a $2,500-$5,000 big bet mix game running in the room.
The room was named after 1978 WSOP main event champion Bobby Baldwin. The Oklahoma-native and four-time WSOP bracelet winner stayed in Las Vegas after winning the main event at 28 years old and forged a successful career in the casino industry.
In 1982, Baldwin was hired as a consultant for the Golden Nugget and became president of the property just two years later. Steve Wynn hired him to be the president of The Mirage in 1987 and he was also the Chief Financial Officer of Mirage Resorts, which eventually became MGM Resorts following a merger. He became president of the Bellagio in the late 1990s.
Towards the end of 2018, Baldwin announced he was leaving his position with MGM Resorts as Chief Customer Development Officer of MGM and CEO and President of CityCenter.
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About a year ago, it was announced that Baldwin will be the CEO of the Drew Las Vegas, which is scheduled to open in 2022.
As successful as he was in the boardroom, Baldwin was just as successful on the felt. He won two WSOP bracelets in no-limit 2-7 single draw and a seven-card stud title, along with his main event bracelet. His last cash came in 2012 with a seventh-place finish in the $1 million buy-in Big One For One Drop. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2003.
Bellagio originally said that the room would remain in his name, despite his departure from MGM, but that changed last month with the renaming. The move went under the radar as the COVID-19 pandemic, the passing of Mike Sexton, the Doug Polk-Daniel Negreanu heads-up match, and the announcement of a hybrid WSOP in December took most of the poker community’s focus.
Pour one out for Bobby's room which is now called, 'Legend's room' lol. Is nothing sacred anymore pic.twitter.com/wMDW1IL37c
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— Nick Schulman (@NickSchulman) November 25, 2020
The fuck it has. I’m absolutely not gonna start calling it the legends room.
— Isaac Haxton (@ikepoker) November 25, 2020
Shoulda named it Doyle's Vault.
— Salty (@msalsberg) November 25, 2020
In 2010, as Aria’s poker room gained popularity among the high-stakes community, the fellow MGM-owned property debuted its high-stakes area, which was named after poker legend Phil Ivey. “Ivey’s Room” tended to attract the highest-stakes no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha games, while limit mixed games stayed at Bellagio.
Ivey’s Room was later changed to “Table 1” in February 2019. Aria’s decision came shortly after a federal judge gave Borgata Hotel and Casino approval to go after Ivey’s assets in Nevada to collect the $10.16 million he owed the casino from a lawsuit of his infamous baccarat session.
Ivey eventually settled with the MGM-owned Atlantic City casino last July.
- Phil Travisano assisted with this story.