Now that poker is legal in WV....

[penguinfan]

Anyone know when a room will open, especially the one at Mountaineer race track?

Thanks

[soah]

what?

[Legislurker]

I believe obg said Labour Day?

[oldbookguy]

Yes, the goal is labor day at Wheeling, they are supposed to have the poker room completed by then. From what I read it is to be a 100,000 sq. ft. room for poker and a second floor for other table games.

The other I do not know and Charleston (Kanawha County) is voting today as well.

[penguinfan]

Thanks for the info. Looking forward to it.

[soah]

is this thread all one big joke on us lurkers or something? 100k square feet is bigger than the ENTIRE CASINO floorspace in half of the strip properties. (source)

[soah]

According to this article, the largest poker room in Vegas is 14k square feet with 60 tables (Caesars Palace).

Maybe you meant 10k?

[oldbookguy]

That was what I read, I know, wow, a big a** room.

Somehow though I believe it (200K Sq. Ft.) likely includes the new 200 room hotel they are building as well at the Dog Track.

The current slots room is larger than 14K, holding now 2,400 slot machines with plansd to increase that number x 2 I believe.

A machine, 2x3 feet x 2400 machines is 14,400 Sq. Ft. with no isles or space between them.

Heck, my local bar with 5 video poker machines is 10 x 5 feet walled off from common area, min. required space.

[oldbookguy]

On Labor Day, reading some of the brochure info used to campaign for the vote recently, they are only expecting to have 20 Poker tables running, though they anticipate hiring and training 350 dealers over time and spending somwe 13 Million in expansion and upgrades to the location there, which may have accounted for the large sq. ft. estimate in the newspaper for total expansion.

"First comes a $13 million investment in remodeling and equipment purchases associated with the table games, she said, then the training and hiring of 350 dealers and another 50 to 150 ancillary employees for additional security, administration and other purposes."

Any idea how many tables (black jack, poker, ect) 350 dealers will service figuring 16 hours a day open x 7 days. I guess 120 various tables.

obg

[ThierryHenry]

I thought I read in a newspaper a few weeks back that the poker rooms will not open until around Thanksgiving because the Gaming Board does not yet have the regulations written.