Some casinos have taken rather longer than others to reopen their poker rooms in the wake of the COVID-19, which shuttered everything casino-related in early 2020. Take Bally's Evansville (Indiana) Casino & Hotel, for example, which has just resumed its live-poker operations after more than four years in cold storage.
The small six-table room at Bally's Evansville serves apart of Indiana that offers few other poker options, but whether it was ever going to reopen after COVID hit had been an open question. As seen elsewhere in the US and around the globe, many of the dealers and floor staff needed to run a poker room moved into different careers, leaving numerous casinos' poker rooms vacant even as the rest of the casinos returned to full operations.
Bally's Evansville celebrated the return of its poker room to live status with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday. After the casino reopened following months of pandemic-related downtime, the poker-room space had been converted into a smoke-free slots room until player demand convinced the casino to re-introduce the poker.
The room will offer a reasonably full availability, spreading NLH and Omaha seven days a week. Additional games are available on demand. It will be open from 11am to 4am Monday through Thursday and will run around the clock o n Friday and Saturday night.
