Name	Rio Poker Room
Address	3700 W. Flamingo, Las Vegas, NV
City	Las Vegas
Country	United States of America
Website	http://www.riolasvegas.com

Caesars Entertainment Corporation announced on Monday morning the news that the poker world has long known (or thought) was coming: it has sold the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, home. Took a cab there to find out the building was abondoned with a chain and lock around the entrance doors. The hotel next door couldn't help me find another poker place either. Called sociedad Germania but they also had no games until the new year. I guess Rio is a pretty bad place for live poker players after all.

Room manager
Kristopher Hartwiger
Phone
(702) 777-7650
Social Media
Facebook.com/RioVegas	Twitter: @RioVegas

Number of tables: 10

Featured Tournaments:

Game	Time	Buy-in	Days
NL Holdem	12:00 AM	$70	Daily
NL Holdem	12:00 PM	$70	Daily
NL Holdem	03:00 PM	$70	Daily
NL Holdem	06:00 PM	$70	Daily
NL Holdem	09:00 PM	$70	Daily

Special interest tournaments:

The Rio hosts the World Series of Poker poker festival every summer.

Cash Games:

Game	Stakes
Limit Hold'em	$3/$6
NL Hold'em	$1/$3
NL Hold'em	$2/$5

Room Summary:

Non smoking	Yes
Meal Comps	Yes
Poker Room Rate	No
Phone-in List	Yes
Automatic Shufflers	Yes
Massage Service	Yes
Cocktail Service	Yes
Food Service	Yes
Jackpot	Yes
Bravo Poker App	Yes

The Rio Poker Room general information

The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino plays host to the world's biggest and most prestigious poker tournament series during the summer each year — The World Series of Poker.

Bonuses at the Rio Poker Room include Daily Cash Drawings and a $10,000 weekly freeroll — qualify by hours played. The Rio Poker Room also offers a Mega Beat Progressive Poker Jackpot and a '20 for 20' Freeroll tournament. Both offers are available through combined Caesars Entertainment (CET) properties. When the Mega Beat Progressive Poker Jackpot is hit, all players that are dealt in — in all properties — receive a piece of the prize pool.

The '20 for 20' Freeroll offers players a chance to qualify for a seat into a $20,000 Freeroll poker tournament by playing 20 hours of live-action poker at any CET Poker Rooms.

The Genesis Bravo poker room management system handles the Rio Poker Room player's waiting lists and comp tracking.

Despite the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino being the summer mecca for poker players and aficionados worldwide since 2005 — going on 15 years — recent rumors of the venue's potential impending demolition was welcomed by many in the industry.

You can read up on the potential sale of Caesars and the cloudy future of the Rio here. In this article, we take a look at the reactions that came out of the poker world.

Las Vegas Locally tweeted some scuttlebutt:

'Caesars is valued at $5.6 billion... but carries a whopping $18 billion in debt' https://t.co/K69sWfHzrk

— Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally)

Some Caesars insiders believe a sale to billionaire Tilman Fertitta will happen within the next 2 weeks https://t.co/JCU3uX81Ph

— Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally)

And in came the reactions on Twitter:

@LasVegasLocally No biggie, just bump the resort fees and maybe charge more for breathing on mini bar items. Problem solved.

— The LV Bar Man (@TheLVBarMan)

@LasVegasLocally Sounds like they made a big mistake by charging those #resortfees #ialto

— Rick (@pimpinwear)

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@LasVegasLocally Stayed there once before we moved here. Our window literally faced a wall, room service was slow and incorrect. Meh.

— Dee Severe (@SevereSociety)

A source from Las Vegas Locally also posted the news that Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, the 15-year home to the World Series of Poker, may soon be no more...

[email protected], the company behind the SoCal-to-Vegas high-speed rail project #XpressWest, may be the buyer. https://t.co/YoQsMxngaM

— Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally)

David 'ODB' Baker wondered if this would affect the upcoming WSOP, but it seems most likely it won't. Matt Waxman joked that the demolition could coincide with the summer series.

@audavidb @WSOP It's definitely at RIO - they're waiting until all of us are inside playing before they start the demolition. Lol

— Matt Waxman (@Matthew_Waxman)

WSOP put those concerns to rest with an official response on Twitter:

We'll be there, 100% certain (except act of mother nature, etc.). https://t.co/EvmqDDYPjq

— WSOP (@WSOP)

Some Rio WSOP regulars, both players and media, expressed their 'concerns'...

WAIT WAIT WAIT ....

— Lance Bradley (@Lance_Bradley)

Rio Poker Room Las Vegas

@Kevmath @Lance_Bradley First Buzio's and now this!

— Chad Holloway (@ChadAHolloway)

@Lance_Bradley The only thing good about the Rio was the wine cellar

— Erik (@ErikLemarquand)

And long-time WSOP ESPN commentator Norman Chad presented a viable solution:

Rio All Suite Casino

BREAKING In an unprecedented promotion – if the Rio is demolished – the World Series of Poker will hold events scat… https://t.co/i6Z1yMp7l3

— Norman Chad (@NormanChad)

Rio All Suites Poker Room Miami

@NormanChad Seems plausible. They seated us outside a seafood restaurant a few times.

— Jamie Kerstetter (@JamieKerstetter)

@NormanChad If they held it at Roma Deli, everyone could have free soda @ToddBrunson

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— Chris Schueller (@ChrisSchueller)

Make sure to return to PokerNews in upcoming weeks for updates on the status of Caesars as well as the future of the current home of the WSOP. Rumors will surely continue to swirl, and with so many false alarms over the years, players and industry observers will understandably want to wait for something solid. PokerNews will continue to monitor things to see if anything concrete develops.

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