New Poker Room at the Venetian

The glamorous Venetian casino and resort joins the crowd of Las Vegas Strip resorts adding or renovating poker rooms to their casino offerings. Anyone familiar with the elaborate fantasy world found within the Venetian won’t be surprised at the prize tag of the new room, ringing in at $2.6 million for the 11,000 square foot space. This is not the first poker room at the Venetian, which sported a small one back in 1999 when they first opened their doors, followed by a ten table room a few years later, but with the surge in poker popularity growing still, it is likely this one is here to stay.

200 slot machines have been removed to open up the corner of the casino that will house the poker room…

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• AMERICAN AIRLINES - In Hold'em, a pair of Aces in the hole. Better known (at least in rec.gambling) as POCKET ROCKETS.
• BET - To put money into the pot, pursuant to the rules of the game, thus maintaining a chance of winning the pot.
• STRING BET - An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.
• DOOR [CARD] - A player's first upcard in stud games.
• WIRED [PAIR] - A pair in the hole. In 5-card stud, a door card that pairs the hole card.
• CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.