Excalibur is located on the south end of the Las Vegas Strip between New York New York and Luxor.
The Excalibur Poker Room is home to 12 tables, although it is rare for that many tables to be needed. Excalibur was the poker room that experimented with Pokertek's PokerPro electronic tables.
The Excalibur Poker Room. Atmosphere Edit. Once one of the friendliest rooms for poker novices on the Strip, the Excalibur was known for their 'kitchen table' rules and friendly atmosphere for beginners. They offered free daily lessons at 11:00am, and followed the lessons with a 1-3 spread limit game. Part of Excalibur Resort Casino Excalibur has a small poker room in the middle of the casino floor with 7 tables. The electronic tables have been removed and real cards are used in all games now. Four tournaments run daily; 9am. 1pm, 5pm, and 8pm featuring No-Limit Hold'em Poker. Ambience: This poker room is based in the middle rear of the Excalibur casino and is enclosed with a half-height wall. This does enough to give poker players a bit of space and blocks out most of the noise and cigarette smoke from the rest of the casino. Excalibur is one of the older casinos on the strip and needs an upgrade.
The experiment was a failure, and Excalibur once again uses live dealers.
There are two main games at Excalibur. One is a $100-$300 buyin 1/2 No Limit Texas Hold'em. The other is a 2-6 spread limit game which uses only one $2 blind.
Amenities at Excalibur
Excalibur is home to some great no limit games, but does not have much to offer players in amenities. Automatic shufflers are used. There are a few TVs, but they are small and out of sight for many players. The sports book is nearby, as are the restrooms. Standard cocktail service is also available. Restrooms require a longer walk than normal from the poker room.
Smoke and Noise Level
The poker room is on the casino floor, but is in a relatively quiet area away from the table games. The smoke can be an issue, but nowhere near as bad as some other poker rooms that are in the middle of the casino floor. The nearby sports book can be annoying during major sporting events.
Comps
Players receive $1 an hour in comps while clocked in with their M Life card. Comps may be used for food, gift shop, or hotel. Players that give at least 5 hours of action daily can receive the casino rate at the hotel. That is 25% off the advertised hotel rate.
Excalibur Poker Room Comps &
Non Hold'em Games Offered
Excalibur is strictly a Texas Hold'em poker room.
The poker room in Excalibur Hotel in Las Vegas
Excalibur Poker Tournaments
The Excalibur Poker Room offers four daily tournaments. All are low buyins with 15 minute levels and high juice. At 9am daily, there is a $25+$10 tournament with 3000 in chips. At 1pm and 5pm daily, there is a $37+$13 tournament with 4000 starting chips and 20 minute levels. At 8pm Sunday-Friday, there is a $28+$12 tournament with 3500 starting chips and 20 minute levels. On Saturdays, there is what the Excalibur Poker Room calls their Strip Poker Tournament. The tournament is $37+$13 buyin with 4000 starting chips and 20 minute levels. First place is guaranteed at least $500.
Waitlists
Excalibur uses the Bravo Poker System, but does not publicly publish their numbers in the Bravo Poker app. Players must call or drop by the poker room to find out what games are active. Signups for cash games may be made by phone.
Rake and Jackpot Drop
The Excalibur Poker Room rakes 10% up to $4. They also take a jackpot dollar. The jackpot rake goes towards spinning the wheel where a player can win up to $70 if they have aces cracked, make four of a kind, or a royal flush. There is also a $2000 bad beat jackpot. To win the bad beat jackpot, a player must lose aces full to four of a kind or better.
Location
The Excalibur Poker Room is located in the far back end of the casino. If arriving from self parking, the poker room is one of the first things that you will see upon entering the casino. If coming from the front entrance, walk straight past all of the table games. The poker room is in the middle of the casino floor past the last table game in the pit. If walking over from Luxor, go down the escalator by the food court. Continue straight ahead from the bottom of the escalator. The poker room is in the middle of the casino floor.
Forever dark
According to a report from CardsChat, three MGM properties on the Strip – the Mirage, Excalibur, and Mandalay Bay – are closing their poker rooms for good. All of the card rooms have been closed since mid-March, when casinos in Nevada were ordered to shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Casinos were permitted to reopen on June 4 and while many poker rooms have also reopened, these three poker rooms had yet to do so.
Excalibur Poker Room Comps 2019
None of the three were particularly large, so by sheer volume, their losses won't be all that significant. The Mirage, though, had a great history in the Las Vegas poker scene, even mentioned in the movie Rounders.
Daniel Negreanu is in mourning:
MGM Resorts International has not put out a press release about the poker room closings, but it isn't all that difficult to figure out what's going on. Casinos have struggled mightily this year because of the pandemic. Even after they reopened, they have been under capacity restrictions. Poker rooms are not nearly as profitable as the other parts of the casino, so the company likely figures it's just not worth it to get them staffed up when they are also arguably the most dangerous gaming areas in terms of COVID-19 risk.
Freerolls at the MGM Grand
There is a temporary silver lining to the three poker room closures, as least for loyal players at other MGM poker rooms in Las Vegas. Each of the poker rooms had bad beat jackpots from before the pandemic that had not been paid out. Since the jackpots were funded from drops paid by players, they belong to the players and not the poker rooms. They obviously can't be repaid by the regular jackpot process, so the MGM Grand will host three freerolls using each closed poker room's money.
The first freeroll will be on election day, November 3, using the $24,022 from Mandalay Bay's bad beat jackpot. Unfortunately, if you are reading this on November 3, it is too late, as the limited seating has sold out.
The Mirage's $69,804 jackpot will be used for the prize pool on November 17. The registration deadline for that one is November 11. The third and final MGM Grand freeroll is on December 1, with a registration deadline of November 25. That one will have a $27,837 prize pool funded by the Excalibur's bad beat jackpot.
To register, wade on over to the MGM Grand's website. Registration opens on the specified day at 5:00pm local time. Any open spots can be filled via in-person registration on the day of the tournament.
There are now just 21 poker rooms open in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, with 285 total tables. Those numbers are down significantly from before the pandemic, when there were 430 tables in 34 poker rooms.
Rake and Jackpot Drop
The Excalibur Poker Room rakes 10% up to $4. They also take a jackpot dollar. The jackpot rake goes towards spinning the wheel where a player can win up to $70 if they have aces cracked, make four of a kind, or a royal flush. There is also a $2000 bad beat jackpot. To win the bad beat jackpot, a player must lose aces full to four of a kind or better.
Location
The Excalibur Poker Room is located in the far back end of the casino. If arriving from self parking, the poker room is one of the first things that you will see upon entering the casino. If coming from the front entrance, walk straight past all of the table games. The poker room is in the middle of the casino floor past the last table game in the pit. If walking over from Luxor, go down the escalator by the food court. Continue straight ahead from the bottom of the escalator. The poker room is in the middle of the casino floor.
Forever dark
According to a report from CardsChat, three MGM properties on the Strip – the Mirage, Excalibur, and Mandalay Bay – are closing their poker rooms for good. All of the card rooms have been closed since mid-March, when casinos in Nevada were ordered to shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Casinos were permitted to reopen on June 4 and while many poker rooms have also reopened, these three poker rooms had yet to do so.
Excalibur Poker Room Comps 2019
None of the three were particularly large, so by sheer volume, their losses won't be all that significant. The Mirage, though, had a great history in the Las Vegas poker scene, even mentioned in the movie Rounders.
Daniel Negreanu is in mourning:
MGM Resorts International has not put out a press release about the poker room closings, but it isn't all that difficult to figure out what's going on. Casinos have struggled mightily this year because of the pandemic. Even after they reopened, they have been under capacity restrictions. Poker rooms are not nearly as profitable as the other parts of the casino, so the company likely figures it's just not worth it to get them staffed up when they are also arguably the most dangerous gaming areas in terms of COVID-19 risk.
Freerolls at the MGM Grand
There is a temporary silver lining to the three poker room closures, as least for loyal players at other MGM poker rooms in Las Vegas. Each of the poker rooms had bad beat jackpots from before the pandemic that had not been paid out. Since the jackpots were funded from drops paid by players, they belong to the players and not the poker rooms. They obviously can't be repaid by the regular jackpot process, so the MGM Grand will host three freerolls using each closed poker room's money.
The first freeroll will be on election day, November 3, using the $24,022 from Mandalay Bay's bad beat jackpot. Unfortunately, if you are reading this on November 3, it is too late, as the limited seating has sold out.
The Mirage's $69,804 jackpot will be used for the prize pool on November 17. The registration deadline for that one is November 11. The third and final MGM Grand freeroll is on December 1, with a registration deadline of November 25. That one will have a $27,837 prize pool funded by the Excalibur's bad beat jackpot.
To register, wade on over to the MGM Grand's website. Registration opens on the specified day at 5:00pm local time. Any open spots can be filled via in-person registration on the day of the tournament.
There are now just 21 poker rooms open in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, with 285 total tables. Those numbers are down significantly from before the pandemic, when there were 430 tables in 34 poker rooms.
There are only eight more poker rooms open in the rest of the state, with fewer than 50 additional tables total.
