Venetian Deepstack
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- DeepStack Showdown March March 9-29, 2020 Event #8 $600 NLH MonsterStack $40K GTD Event #7 $300 NLH Ladies $10K GTD Event #5 $400 NLH MonsterStack $25K GTD Event #3 $400 NLH MonsterStack Freeze Out $20K GTD Event #2 $300 Limit Omaha 8/B $10K GTD Event #1 $300 NLH MonsterStack $20K GTD DeepStack Extravaganza I.
- World Poker Tour - WPT at Venetian DeepStack Showdown Poker Series. March 01 - 28, 2021 Place: The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Las Vegas. Date Event Buy-in: March 01, 2021.
Unibet DeepStack Open A €550 buy-in which allows passionate players to take part in an international poker tournament without breaking the bank with a tournament structure has been created with the help of international tournament director Matt Savage. View current DeepStack Extravaganza February 2–28, 2021 results and tournament structures.
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- $1/hour. Comp dollars can be used for tournament buy-ins (in $10 increments), Entry Fee excluded. Incremental Bad Beat Jackpot, starts at $50K, increases by $1500 a day, starts at quad Aces beaten, losing hand lowered every $50K in pool March High Hand Giveaway (except March 12-15), every 30 mins between Noon and Midnight, $1K to highest hand, $600 to second highest hand. Note during this promo only, Jackpot drop is $3 and Rake is $6 max.
Venetian Details
The Venetian Poker Room is the largest poker room in Las Vegas, encompassing 59 tables, and offers a host of amenities and game selection to all players. Since The Venetian Poker Room opened in 2006 it has been repeatedly honored by the Las Vegas Review Journal as a “Best of Las Vegas” designation for overall customer service. The Venetian Poker Room offers many amenities such as a dedicated cashier cage, two separate high limit areas, tableside foodservice, player wait list and comp management, dedicated tournament registration desk, and a customer lounge.
The Venetian Poker Room is located directly adjacent to the Las Vegas Strip frontage, with a main Strip entrance being located only a few feet from the west room entrance. Physically, the Venetian Poker Room is well spaced out which allows for high traffic and easy wheelchair access. All poker tables are fitted with automatic shufflers and a tableside management system that enables the dealers to notify chip runners, floor personnel, cocktail servers, and food porters when their services are needed. Aesthetically, the Venetian Poker Room matches the opulence of the rest of The Venetian Resort, with large crystal chandeliers, wall sconces, and leather wrapped armrests on the poker tables. The walls are adorned in leather and dark Mahogany veneers, framing 35 flat screen televisions on all sides. Outside of the Venetian’s Poker Room, three televisions are dedicated to displaying the waitlists for all available games, two from the front main entrance, and one from the side entrance on the south side. Ornate iron designs adorn the cashier cage and the main entrance foyer, which includes a rotunda like marble entryway, leading up the brush desk.
The Venetian’s Poker Room chairs are swivel/adjustable height and are on caster wheels for ease of movement. Leather seats are coupled with upholstered backs on all Venetian Poker Room chairs. Side tables are plentiful and are necessary due to the availability of foodservice, and a dedicated foodservice wait staff on hand 24 hours a day.
A popular offering of the Venetian Poker Room is its quarterly signature Deepstack Tournament Series, which fills the room to capacity, including over 60 additional “temporary” tournament tables, all of which have automatic shufflers, allowing events that eclipse 700 players.
The Venetian Poker Room offers a wide mix of games, including daily offerings of 1/2NLHE, 2/5NLHE, 5/10NLHE, 4/8LHE, 8/16LHE, 4/8 Omaha 8, 8/16 Omaha 8, and some mid limit offerings. Also, The Venetian Poker Room does not drop a jackpot in any of its cash games. Venetian is one of the five poker rooms out of the 41 in Las Vegas that do not collect a jackpot rake for cash promotions.
The Venetian Poker Room offers a large mix of player types. With over 7000 hotel rooms between Venetian and adjoining Palazzo, plus the known destination aspects of the venue, players of all different experience levels play at The Venetian daily. Venetian is well known for offering wide game selection enabling players to change tables should they find themselves in a game that is not to their liking.
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The Venetian Poker Room cocktail service offers a very wide variety to all players, top shelf liquor and call drinks, as well as a large variety of juices, soft drinks, and energy drinks. The Venetian is also one of Las Vegas’ only poker rooms to offer Barq’s Root Beer as well as Dr. Pepper.
The Venetian Poker Room comp system offers $1 per hour for all cash games, and larger buy in tournaments receive a paper comp voucher.
Comp dollars earned in the Venetian Poker Room can be redeemed at Noodle Asia, The Grand Lux Café, and the casino level food court, as well as payment for tableside food delivery.
Comp dollars can now be used for tournament buy-ins (in $10 increments), Entry Fee excluded.
The Venetian Poker Room is one of the busiest in Las Vegas, often spreading as many as 35 cash games nightly, with upwards of 50 during the quarterly DeepStack series.
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Venetian poker room running live tournament series throughout September and October
The Venetian poker room continues an aggressive approach to the COVID-19 era of live poker in Las Vegas.
The Strip property announced the return of its long-running DeepStack Showdown, with the latest edition of the series running Sept. 7-27. Another DeepStack Showdown follows Oct. 5-18.
The Venetian poker room stands as the first venue to run a major live tournament series in Las Vegas since the COVID-19 pandemic halted live tournament poker in the US. Daily tournaments are up and running at the Venetian, Sahara, and other Las Vegas poker rooms, but the DeepStack Showdown marks the first major tournament series in Las Vegas since the mid-March COVID-19 shutdowns.
Both the September and October DeepStack Showdowns offer more than $400,000 across the multiple events in the series. The October edition of the DeepStack Showdown features $150,000 guaranteed prize pools in some events.
Venetian first to run a live tournament series in the pandemic era
Venetian Deepstack January 2021
The announcement of the pair of DeepStack Showdowns carries on the Venetian’s reputation as one of the most aggressive live poker operators in the pandemic era.
The venue was one of the last Las Vegas poker rooms to shut down in March as the COVID-19 crisis began to take shape. Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak ordered all casinos to cease operations March 18, and authorized properties to reopen June 4.
The Venetian poker room wasted no time resuming operations after that, reopening June 5 with four-player max tables. As Las Vegas poker rooms slowly expanded the maximum player numbers per table, the Venetian has usually stood at the front of that curve.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board gave the Venetian poker room authorization to become the first Las Vegas venue to run eight-handed games, and by the end of July, all 32 tables were fitted with the necessary plexiglass dividers to offer eight-max games.
The return of the DeepStack Showdown marks the next step in the Venetian’s efforts to bring live tournament poker back to something resembling pre-pandemic business.
Venetian Deepstack Update
Join us tomorrow @VenetianPoker as we kick off the DeepStack Showdown with more than $400,000 in prize pool guarantees.
Structures: https://t.co/nQ7w2tyoG3pic.twitter.com/1UlPCd0O3v
— Venetian Poker Room (@VenetianPoker) September 7, 2020
Live tournament series could draw hundreds per event
The nature of live poker presents unique challenges during the COVID-19 crisis. While casinos across the US reopened over the summer in a limited capacity, some states still didn’t allow poker room operations to resume.
Casino reopenings in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, didn’t allow for poker rooms to resume business. In California, a ban on indoor entertainment venues shuttered more than 60 cardrooms in the state.
Nevada’s poker rooms did get the green light to resume operations along with the rest of the casino floor when Gov. Sisolak gave the June 4 reopening clearance. Cash games, albeit short-handed, have been running on the Strip for several weeks.
Live tournament poker pushes the potential pandemic complications to another level, however. The cancellation of the 2020 World Series of Poker led to the creation of an online-only version of poker’s most famous event.
US players yearning for the live poker experience are finally seeing some progress in the return of the live version of the game.
The Mid States Poker Tour ran the first major live tournament series in the U.S. since the COVID-19 shutdowns, in the form of the MSPT Grand Falls Casino series in late-August. The series drew record attendance, as players from across the country made the trip to Larchwood, IA (just outside of Sioux Falls, SD) for the first live tournament series in the U.S. in more than five months.
The October 2019 edition of the Venetian DeepStack Showdown saw more than 800 entries registered for the largest guarantee event in the series. With Las Vegas poker players able to enjoy a big live tournament poker series for the first time in more than five months, attendance at the upcoming DeepStack Showdowns could look similar.