3570 Las Vegas Boulevard
Las Vegas, NV 89109
Phone: (800) 634-6001
Official Caesar’s Palace Poker Room Website
63 Tables
Comments:
First, the bad. Parking.
Good grief, now I know what a lab rat trying to find the cheese feels like. First time I have actually driven directly to Caesar’s. One wrong turn and you are screwed, glued, and tattooed. Follow the arcane “self park” signs VERY carefully, hope you don’t get your mirrors taken off by a cab, and once inside the garage, simply close your eyes, hit the accelerator, and hope for the best. It’s an indoor speedway with nary an distinction between the parking and exit lanes, and the 5Mph speed limit is more like 50Mph as the ladies in SUV’s floor it to get to a space they think they saw open it up (and they will risk life and limb to beat you too it).
Since that is out of the way …
There is one word that kept coming to mind as I was playing several hours of cards, and that word was: Comfortable.
This is, far and away the most comfortable poker room that I have ever played in. Much more so than even the Bellagio and Wynn.
You walk through a short, curved, opulent hallway to get to the room (the poker tables are not visible from the main casino).
The tables are spaced about 8 feet apart, and walking around the room is effortless. There is no bumping of chairs, no “excuse me’s” … there is just plenty of space to move around. Even though it has over 60 tables, the room itself is HUGE. The poker room is the size of some entire casino’s!. They didn’t make a poker “room”, they made a poker “colosseum”. High ceilings, large tables, large walkways, drink holders, very nice tables with no annoying racetracks, adequately sized drink holders … extremely comfortable and hassle-free access to and from your table.
There is an electronic list, a few TV’s placed throughout the room, a nice PA system (for game calling, not music), an efficient cashier, and the bathroom are a 30 second walk from the tables (just outside the card room).
They deal almost every game imaginable here. From 3/6 Limit to huge blind No Limit, and everything in between. I got right into a game when I checked in, and everyone I spoke with there told me that they rarely waited more than 15 minutes for any particular game.
The cocktail waitresses are a little more old school (average age 40-ish) than say, the Palms … but they come around once every 20 minutes are pleasant enough.
This room is less about gimmicks and distractions, and more about pure, raw, poker. For a room this size, there are only a few TV’s, the waitresses are tastefully covered, there is no music blaring. There is really nothing else to do in this room but to pay attention to the game you are playing. And that seems to be the point.
On this day, there seemed to be only serious poker players in the room. Perhaps not professional, but few outright fish. Despite the cliche’, there is not always one fish at every table, at least not at Ceasar’s. I had to earn my money (which turned into a roughly break-even session). Nobody was giving it away chasing flushes and straights. You can definitely make decent money here, but it probably won’t be gift wrapped and handed to you like it sometimes is at the Mandalay, etc.
If it wasn’t for the absolutely abysmal parking situation, I would definitely play here more often. After the Venetian, it may well be the second best Poker Room in Las Vegas.
