Rhode Island Casino Opens Poker RoomTwin River Casino Becomes Full Scale Las Vegas-Style Casino |
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Rhode Island’s Twin River Casino opened up a 16-table poker room on Thursday, after beginning to flirt with the idea earlier this year. It’s the state’s only poker room.
The games offered are Texas hold’em and seven-card stud, and the room is open from noon to 4 a.m. during the week, but hours are expanded during the weekend. The room is open nonstop from Friday afternoon to 4 a.m. Monday, according to a report from NBC 10 News.
Twin River received the OK to add house-banked table games just three years ago. It currently has 4,500 slot machines and more than 100 table games.
The casino also is planning a 200-room hotel, which could break ground this spring.
The move to make Twin River into a more robust casino comes not long after a slots casino opened up in neighboring Massachusetts.
Combined with the Newport Grand slots parlor, Rhode Island’s gambling industry yields the state more than $350 million annually in tax revenue.
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