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Posted on 08/24/2025 9:28:04 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A mom-and-pop casino in Las Vegas is set to close in the fall, after Sin City's rip-off prices sent tourism into freefall.
Poker Palace, a casino in North Las Vegas situated on the Las Vegas Boulevard, notified its 126 employees on July 29 that layoffs were set for September 30, with a final closing date of October 1, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification.
WARN notices are required by federal law to inform employees of closings and mass layoffs at least 60 days in advance.
The casino was sold, impacting all of the employees' jobs, but it's unclear what the future holds for the local spot.
No reason for the closure has been given. Las Vegas saw tourist numbers fall by 11 percent in June compared to the same time last year
Soaring prices and viral complaints about rip-offs have put some prospective visitors off. Canadian tourists - who are particularly important to the local economy - are also shunning Las Vegas and the US after President Trump threatened to turn their country into the 51st state.
And while Poker Palace doesn't sit in a tourist hotspot, the citywide slump has seen many locals losing their jobs and falling behind on mortgage repayments, giving them less to spend at the city's off-the-beaten-track spots.
Poker Palace has served the community of North Las Vegas since 1974, when the casino was simply a blackjack table, eight slot machines, and two pool tables.
The entire casino was the size of a studio apartment at a measly 700 square feet. Poker Palace grew over four decades to a 25,000 square foot casino with over 250 slots, seven table games, eight poker tables, and a bingo room.
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Everything stays in Vegas, except jobs.
A mom-and-pop casino in Las Vegas
They’re trying to blame this tourist slump on Trump and not their $80 pizzas, which you can’t even reheat because they took all the microwaves out of the rooms (unless you rent one).
They all use Covid as well as restaurants to artificially jack up the price to ridiculous numbers. Screw them all.
In another year or two Las Vegas will be BEGGING the mob to come back and operate things. Sure there will be a ‘mob tax’, but the streets will be safe and clean and cost of going there will drop by an order of magnitude.
Allowing the city to be run based on Universal Voting has destroyed the city, the same way Zimbabwe was destroyed by Universal Voting, and the Vegas reaction will be the same “Come back! PLEASE come back!!”
As a resident of the area, me and my fellow locals don’t go anywhere near The Strip unless forced to. There are the ridiculous resort fees along with expensive, no-longer-free and expensive parking, at the casinos.
Revenue from gaming will undergo a precipitate decline and the Democrats, courtesy of the usual stolen elections, will try to raise taxes and impose an income tax.
$50 minimum on the strip at night, no free drinks, no comped rooms, no free parking, expensive food, 6/5 blackjack etc.
Covid turned most things into “CHARGE WHAT THE TRAFFIC WILL BEAR” and they found out there is not much of a limit on that for many products and services. Only people who remember what things cost not too long ago balk at the prices expected. Youngsters who never bought or people who don’t remember prices shrug and say that’s what it costs you either buy it or you don’t so they do if they can.
I have seen only one thing come down since Covid, Glyphosate. It went as high as $129 at TSC and I bought it for $49 at Coop last Thursday.
It is all about supply, demand and utility. Only when we quit buying and paying high prices will prices come down. There is a whole lot of stuff you just don’t need right now. Vegas is sure one of those things. $129 Glyphosate was another for me.
vegas greed killed the golden goose
the illegals pushing pornos in your face at every street corner, timeshare salesmen, street scammers, outrageous prices, ghetto thugs, gee what’s not to love about vegas?
I realized Lad Vegas was a snake eating its own tail back in 2013. You could not walk through any building without multiple pitches from timeshare herders. Why the hell would I want to buy a timeshare in Las Vegas, so I can spend my free time visiting Las Vegas to get hassled by more timeshare herders?
Monetizing every square inch has consequences?
I miss the mob:
https://youtu.be/GFRLSAPnIG0?feature=shared&t=6
Wake me when one of the main casinos closes.
The resorts made the decision to tear down old hotels that were functioning and had reasonable prices for the masses.
Now they've built soulless palaces for the ultra-wealthy. But their customer is more likely to be in Monaco than Vegas.
Casinos have jacked up hotel and restaurant prices. Comps have been drastically reduced. People can bet on sports on-line and gamble on-line. Why go to Vegas?
Las Vegas was a great place to visit when the mob ran everything.
I highly doubt organized crime isn’t already still there, they never left. If anything they shifted tactics and branched into private/casino security, being involved in the camera systems, enforcing blacklists
Sixteen-dollar bottles of water. Fifty-dollar minimums at the tables. Resort fees. Fifty bucks a day for parking. They know they’re doing it.
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