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Las Vegas casinos folding on poker rooms

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At the height of the poker fad, Las Vegas couldn't get enough of poker rooms. Now some of those rooms are folding. Four casinos yanked their poker tables last year, including the Tropicana, and three other rooms closed shop in 2011.

Associated Press/May 2011

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Poker has never been a big moneymaker like slot machines or roulette. But when the game’s popularity soared during the 2000s, casinos were willing to forgo the extra dollars to get players inside their buildings. Now the calculus is shifting. In Sin City, epicenter of the poker craze, at least eight rooms have folded in the past two years. “I just think the allure of poker is lessening,” said William Thompson, author of the encyclopedia “Gambling in America” and professor of public administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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