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It would centralize the games, and because of economies of scale, it would help sustain and support games that currently have tepid or infrequent support (not Holdem, limits over 5/10L or 1/2NL).

These games are much easier to get going from a large congregated player base. Nowadays if you want to play a midlimit game such as say 15/30, you have to check 3-4 casinos to find the one spreading it today. That's alot of work for a donator to go through, and he may skip poker this trip.

Create a destination for him to go knowing he can play the 15/30 or 20/40 game he wants, and he'll happily go there.

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I'm not coninvced this would happen even if such a room were built. Is everybody playing midlimit (limit and NL) from the Bellagio suddenly going to move to the new gigantic room? What's their motivation? Venetian is trying (or has tried) to get these games and they just don't go. Why would they go in a brand-new gigantic room? If you closed all the individual rooms in town and opened up this mega-room, I think you'd get this effect for sure but I don't see why people would leave the room(s) that already spread the games they want to go to a new one just because it's large and centrally located.

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Bellagio is expected to lose it's poker crown in two years when City Center opens. Obviously the ideal solution is to have City Center open this mega poker room. But realistically if someone like Chip if Doyal put their name on the room as a competitor to Bellagio - and they took someone of Doug Dalton's caliber it could happen. It wouldn't be easy and timing would be critical, but it is possible.