25 stops have been scheduled to date, with additional dates to be announced later this July on. You could always enjoy yourself here,” he said. The highly anticipated regional poker tour returns for its 19th season beginning Wednesday, July 19 at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma immediately following the conclusion of the 2023 World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas.
A place where the locals played and staffers treated you like family. An attached horse racing and keno lounge.
When that didn’t happen, he reminisced with a reporter about the good times. Kevin Thompson, 38, was walking through the room on Wednesday, looking for one last game. The room closed for renovations in February 2015 and didn’t reopen until this past May, less than two months before workers at the casino went on strike. It began drawing most of the city’s big action, and the opening of poker rooms in Pennsylvania, Delaware and later Maryland took away most of the rest. McClelland says the tournament organizers helped to change some of the problems, and he said he enjoyed working for Trump, for whom he plans to vote in November.Ĭonnecticut’s Foxwoods Casino had already begun splitting up the lucrative New York market, but it was the opening of Atlantic City’s Vegas-style Borgata casino in 2003 that started the end of the Taj poker room. “They ran the poker room like you run the blackjack pit. “When we went there, the Taj Mahal poker room was kind of a mess,” said former World Series of Poker tournament director Jack McClelland, who Trump hired to launch the tournament that was broadcast on ESPN.
