Poker King Venetian Macau
The Venetian Poker Room will be open daily from 9:00 a.m. The health and safety of our guests and team members is our top priority. Please visit Venetian Clean to find out more. Play one of the world’s favorite card games in The Venetian Poker Room. It’s the ultimate combination of elegance, comfort, and convenience. Poker King Club and the Suncity Group are pleased to welcome you back in Macau for Suncity Cup 2017, held at the amazing Venetian@ Macao. Thank you for your ongoing support of our brand, and for joining our most ambitious venture yet, which went through five different stops at. Poker King Club in Venetian Macao Casino Macau, Live Poker Opened in 2007 by Sheldon Adelson, The Venetian is located on the Cotai Strip, covers 10.5 million square feet, and is one of Macau’s major hot spots.
The Poker King Club (PKC), famous for hosting Macau’s Big Game, moved from the StarWorld Casino last September to a brand new location inside The Venetian Macau. However, the brand was given a temporary space until a spectacular new dedicated poker room was ready to open. On May 22th, the full time poker finally opened to great fanfare with more than one hundred distinguished guests attending its launch, including Poker King Club President Winfred Yu, Suncity Group President of Marketing Strategy YM Choong, Venetian & Plaza Operations Director Ciaran Carruthers, and Venetian Macau Limited VP of Casino Operations Harold Tsakmaklis.
Also in attendance at the opening ceremony was a number of top poker pros, including Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan, and Tom Dwan, who the Poker King Club hired to help promote the game to a mass market, and ultimately grow poker in Macau. Interestingly, the Venetian Macau is also owned by a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands, whose CEO Sheldon Adelson is one of the USA’s leading campaigners against online poker.
As a rule, poker compares unfavorably to other casino gambling games in terms of its relatively slow speed and the revenues generated from the game. However, the game is also viewed as an important way of attracting new customers to casinos, and commenting on his ambitions for the Poker King Club,
Winfred Yu said:
“It has not always been the most profitable game among the casino games. But due to the slowdown in the revenues coming, poker becomes a bit more recognized as a way of bringing in traffic and gaming customers.”
At the opening night, a special charity poker tournament took place to raise money for Caritas Internationalis, an international Catholic relief organization, and Johnny Chan eventually triumphed over an eight man field, which included the likes of Ivey, Yu, Stanley Choi, Raymond Chow, Takeda Tsuneaki, and Yong Wai Kin.
Poker King Venetian Macau Palazzo
Part of Venetian Casino Resort Macao While Venetian Macau always offered one of the few steady poker rooms on the island, the previous 10 table venue left a few things to be desired by many players. And while the Poker King Club when it was located elsewhere had a reputation for big and crazy play, not everyone could get a seat or afford to play.