The Venetian Las Vegas will move its poker room to the Grand Canal Shoppes

THE Venetian Las Vegas Casino Resort is moving its poker room to a new location, and Director of Poker Operations Tommy LaRosa has released a video showing how to get there from the old location.

On the contrary, it seems that poker players will continue to improve.

The new, expanded poker room will no longer be located within the casino grounds. It will be located on the second floor of the Grand Canal Shoppes, between the Venetian and the Palazzo. This is the area where tourists can currently take gondola rides through an imaginary Venice filled with high-end retailers and four-star restaurants.

The new venue will have 50 tables, up from 35 currently, and will occupy 14,000 square feet of space. No opening date has been set, but LaRosa says in the video that it will happen “late summer.”

Casinos.com reached out to LaRosa for additional information and we were hoping to get a glimpse behind the construction walls, but we did not hear back prior to publication.

Although the amount of money spent on the new venue has not been disclosed, LaRosa has previously called it a “significant investment.” The new room will have USB charging stations at each seat and sports betting terminals nearby. It will be non-smoking like almost all poker rooms are these days, but it will also be further away from the noise and smoke of the casino.

The new Venetian poker room also looks particularly welcoming to poker vloggers, with a special area for recording hands and a table for live streaming.

This comes at a time when other once-prominent poker rooms in Las Vegas, like Caesars Palace, are on the verge of closing their doors.

The Venetian opened its poker room in 2006 with 39 tables. At 11,000 square feet, it was the third largest poker room on the Las Vegas Strip at the time. In 2012, it was reconfigured as the Sands Poker Room.