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2. Also, in Leicester Square and the Hippodrome rival is the Empire Casino, once host to the World Series of Poker (WSOP), one of the largest poker series in the world. The Empire is also in quite an impressive building, the former ballroom of the Empire Theatre, but here, you will find softer and lower-stakes poker games.

Those of you who prefer live poker to online will be delighted to learn The Poker Room, formerly The Vic, is reopening for business from 4:00 p.m. on August 18.

All casinos in the United Kingdom were ordered to close on March 23, 2020 by Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Any business deemed to be non-essential was forced to cease trading as the country entered lockdown status in an attempt to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Johnson has since eased the lockdown measures and allowed those non-essential businesses to reopen and accept customers.

Grosvenor Casinos had hoped to reopen on July 4, American Independence Day. The Government gave the provisional green light for hospitality and leisure facilities to reopen on July 4.

While several industry sectors pulled up their shutters and attempted to return to some sort of normality, casinos were not included in that raft of reopenings.

The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) informed the public British casinos had put several safety measures in place to allow them to accept customers once again. These included strict social distancing protocols and frequent use of hand sanitizer and cleaning of gaming areas.

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Poker wasn’t mentioned in any of the discussions that made it into the public domain; the focus seemed to be on casino table games and slots.

Grosvenor Casinos posted a message on its Facebook page on August 14. This read:

“We’ll be BACK open in England from 15th August but will have to wait a little longer for poker. Don’t worry, cash poker games will be available in our clubs very soon – be the first to find out when on the Poker Live app.”

That wait appears to be over with The Poker Room, formerly The Vic, announcing it is hosting cash games again from today, August 18.

“Poker will be back at The Poker Room in London TODAY!! We will be running Cash games ONLY, which will be 7 handed, beginning at 4pm. Check the app to see what games are running and to join the waiting list.”

Live cash games have been available at The Hippodrome Casino, also in London, since August 15.

The [email protected] Twitter account posted a photo of a cash game in progress, complete with protective plastic screens separating the players.

Two games open and seating third table now. Space available, come and see us. https://t.co/0ltKcHzreB

— [email protected] (@PSLive_Hippo)

Players flocked to The Hippodrome and within four hours the poker room was forced to close its waiting list. It later reopened with 20 persons waiting on it. Four £1/£2 and one £2/£5 tables were in play throughout the day.

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The poker room at The Hippodrome has been busy since it reopened its door. Several safety measures are in place, including using hand sanitiser once per orbit, the aforementioned screens, a Track and Trace system, and cards being changed at least hourly.

Empire Poker Room, again in London, is also open for cash games only.

It’s not surprising to see the first live poker offerings being cash games only. They’re much easier to police as players tend not to swap seats regularly due to tables breaking when players are eliminated.

It could be some time before we see another major live poker tournament take place, but casinos spreading cash games is a major step forward.

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PokerStars has announced that it will inaugurate its brand new poker room in London’s historic Hippodrome Casino on March 4. It may be recalled that PokerStars had signed a deal with Hippodrome, according to the terms of which it was to open a poker room on the premises of the Hippodrome.

The old poker gaming facility at the Hippodrome has been given a complete facelift and PokerStars will run cash poker games 24/7 in the renovated venue. The poker gaming operator also plans to run live poker tournaments throughout the year.

The first live poker tournament of any significance, scheduled to be held at PokerStars LIVE starting April 12, is the London leg of the UK and Ireland Poker Tour.

Poker players can qualify for these live poker events both in the online poker room as well as the live poker room. The Hippodrome is all set to host the Winter Classic, its first poker tournament series, which is scheduled to be run this weekend. PokerStars has already begun organizing satellite qualifiers for the benefit of players who would like to take part in the Winter Classic. PokerStars will be helping the Hippodrome organize this event although it will not be held in the newly renovated poker room.

As part of the deal signed between PokerStars and the Hippodrome last October, the online gaming operator will run a poker website under the brand name of Hippodrome and this new online poker room will be powered by Microgaming software.

Simon Thomas, chairman for the Hippodrome, said:

The poker room’s luxury interior design has been developed to take poker to a new level, catching the interest of all national and international players.

… our ambition is to create a fabulous environment in which to play poker, with great lighting, comfortable seating and the audiovisual support to the needs of the poker player.

PokerStars’ move to launch a new poker room in the Hippodrome is part of its strategy to enter the land poker gaming industry. In December, the online poker gaming operator signed a similar agreement with Casino Gran Madrid, and PokerStars’ poker room in Casino Gran Madrid is likely to be launched early in 2013.

In Jan 2013, PokerStars confirmed that it intends to acquire the struggling Atlantic Club Casino Hotel. PokerStars also owns a small share of a land casino in Belgium and once used to run a land poker venue in Macau.