Monte Carlo Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip is closing the poker room it has operated since the last 1990s as part of a 0 million renovation that will add two new hotels to the resort.
The closing leaves the Strip area with 19 poker rooms with a combined 276 tables.
At the height of the poker boom in Vegas in 2007 there were 26 rooms on or around the Strip, with a combined 396 tables. Since then, seven rooms have closed as revenue has fallen by some $90 million over the last decade.
Across Nevada last year there were 73 poker rooms with 661 tables that generated a combine rake of $117.8 million, more than 60 percent of it on the Strip.
