Poker Palace rebirth

North Las Vegas has always been a cross between a municipal dump and a war zone, especially the city of NLV proper. The closer you get to Nellis AFB, the cruddier it gets. If you visit one of the locals' casinos, you need to sprint from the parking lot to the front door to give yourself a decent chance of survival.

Poker Palace is in NLV's second-worst neighborhood. It was, however, attractive because of ultra-cheap gambling and good, inexpensive food. As long as you visited during daylight hours and packed heat (with extra ammo), you were probably fine.

So the people who are renovating PP are the same ones who own Club Fortune; unFortunately, that's the worst locals' casino in Henderson, so I'm not hopeful. Still, the renovation and reopening are a good sign, indicating that this blighted and dangerous corner of Vegas may be able to support some kind of commerce other than meth sales.

I'm very curious to see what it will look like and whether its super-bargain vibe will be preserved.

I sense that 2 people are fighting out a personal vendetta. Whatever the reason is, I would recommend to stop it.

I have been to the Poker Palace a few times in my life and it was pretty much slow and run down but I liked it for the outside design , the castle thing. I wished it stays like that. And I remember having hit 4 aces w/kicker the other day on a tight 5-8 dd bonus bank. I take it that progressive bank is gone long time ago. Food was cheap and even cheaper because I had a LVA coupon that day but those days probably are gone too.  I compared to the BigHorn or LongHorn and both places are probably alike and it's all the same. Not so sure if the Silver Nugget casino is still open but when I visited that place to play my 5 dollar match I also had a feeling that this was last stop before getting shot. 

I survived for a miraculous reason and will probably go and visit the remodeled Poker Palace place in April when I will be back. Too sad they will have it without table games. I loved it because they used to have those small buy-in poker tournaments that were actually fun to play in.

From Switzerland

Boris

It's not a "vendetta." Dan follows me around the forums and posts gratuitous insults. I can't begin to guess what psychological pathologies make him do that. I can't force him to stop.

Anyway, returning to the actual topic, it would indeed be nice if Club Fortune kept some elements of the old joint intact. I surmise that they pretty much have to stay with the locals' low roller approach. Ain't nobody going to come out there for a high-class experience, but there are plenty of locals with a hundy or two clutched in their sweaty palms.

I think live poker is a long shot; none of the smaller locals' joints in Vegas have that any more. I also played in those small buyin tourneys back in the day. 

Its been over 10 years since my last visit.   I recall them comping Guiness drafts at the VP bar which was nice.  It was a bonafide dive and the crowd was strictly trailer park folks.    The same people who used to frequent the Western downtown if you remember that place

It is a bad neighborhood and you have to drive through the gauntlet of homeless encampments along Main Street to get there.    

Jerry's Nugget is the only place around there that truly feels safe..

The Skyline on Boulder Strip was offering poker on the weekends last year when I was there. I never made it to the Skyline at the times they advertised poker but I thought it would be fun playing with those low-rollers in a friendly game. But of course there's no money to be made, neither for the players, nor for the house. I don't blame those casinos for shutting down poker operations. I will definetely check out the Club Luck North when they are open. Just for nostalgic reasons.  I was even at the Opera House years before they shut down. I lost quite an amount there going for some ridiculous cash-back promotion.

There was a time when you could tour the North Vegas dumps--Opera House, Silver Nugget, Poker Palace, Longhorn, etc --once a week and pick up $50 free play and a couple of free meals. As long as you had your tetanus shots and wore a gas mask, you were fine.

It was an interesting socioeconomic tour de force, as those places were and still are the polar opposite of the Strip. I didn't really like seeing people toss away their rent money. Those casinos were and are a parasitic presence in the local economy. The only positive is that they offer some minimum-wage employment in an area that has few jobs of any kind.

There were occasionally +EV promos available, so I did the casino ghetto tour at least once a month. The Silver Nugget had good, cheap food, so I made a day of it.