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Gambling Today: Wynn Las Vegas to Reopen Without Poker. Will Others Follow?

Predictions, like the ones we have previously made at SI’s Gambling Today, have painfully

come to fruition now that we have learned that Wynn Las Vegas has will not be offering live poker when it reopens as part of “Phase 3” of Governor Steve Sisolak’s ‘Road To Recovery for Nevada.”

In recent years, Wynn Resorts had moved its poker room from the Wynn over to its adjoining property Encore, creating easily the most comfortable and alluring poker room in the city. The casino operator originally included live poker as Section 11 in their detailed reopening document released last month.