[psandman]

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When I first got interested in poker around three years ago, there were about a dozen rooms on the Strip, 8 or so off-Strip. Roughly 20 city-wide.

There are now 24 on the Strip alone (if you count places like O'Sheas and Trop, which have a few tables, but no room, as such.)

Think the poker boom has led to enough growth in the player base to warrant a few more rooms, but not as many as are currently open. Certainly feel badly for the employees when a room closes, but think it's inevitable.

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Its worse than that. I moved out here in July 2004. By July 2006 I counted over 30 new poker rooms in the area since I had moved out here. Sure some of those rooms were small like the Tropicana or Railway pass, but it also included big rooms like Caesars, Wynn, Venetian, MGM.