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DOVER — Now under new management, Dover Downs has closed its poker room.
June 9, 2019, 7:26 am Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Dover, Delaware no longer operates a poker room, local news outlet Delaware State News reported Saturday. The property closed its poker room, located on its third floor, last week and moved poker tables to the casino floor.
The casino, which became part of Twin River Worldwide Holdings Inc. at the end of March, moved its poker tables to the casino floor last week.
- Dover Downs Hotel & Casino offers luxurious accommodations, amenities and activities that give you MORE. Dover Downs Hotel & Casino offers many services that will enhance your stay – headline entertainers, state of the art gaming, live harness racing and poker, and a luxurious, South Pacific-inspired full-service spa that will leave you relaxed and looking and feeling your best.
- Poker is not currently available during this Phase. We will update when we are deemed to be able to open poker with the state's guidelines. — Dover Downs Casino (@DoverDowns) October 16, 2020. John Carney's (D) reopening plan allows for casinos to open limited hours and occupancy. Under his order, live poker rooms remained closed.
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June 9, 2019, 7:26 am Dover Downs Hotel & Casino in Dover, Delaware no longer operates a poker room, local news outlet Delaware State News reported Saturday. The property closed its poker room, located on its third floor, last week and moved poker tables to the casino floor.
The casino, which became part of Twin River Worldwide Holdings Inc. at the end of March, moved its poker tables to the casino floor last week.
- Dover Downs Hotel & Casino offers luxurious accommodations, amenities and activities that give you MORE. Dover Downs Hotel & Casino offers many services that will enhance your stay – headline entertainers, state of the art gaming, live harness racing and poker, and a luxurious, South Pacific-inspired full-service spa that will leave you relaxed and looking and feeling your best.
- Poker is not currently available during this Phase. We will update when we are deemed to be able to open poker with the state's guidelines. — Dover Downs Casino (@DoverDowns) October 16, 2020. John Carney's (D) reopening plan allows for casinos to open limited hours and occupancy. Under his order, live poker rooms remained closed.
- If, at any time, you have difficulty using www.tampabaydowns.com or a particular web page or function on the site, please contact us by phone at 813-298-1717 or email webaccess@tampabaydowns.com and we will make all reasonable efforts to assist you.
Despite rumors the entire poker staff had lost its jobs, only one person was laid off, according to casino management.
Dover Downs Poker Room Closed Christmas Day
'Today is our first day of poker on the floor, so we do have poker! There will be NO poker room on the third floor anymore. The Poker tables now on the Casino floor answer to table games and no longer operate as a separate entity,' Nicholas Polcino Jr., the new vice president and general manager, said in a statement Friday.
Dover Downs Poker Room Closed Today
'All other personnel (Poker Director is no longer with the company) that could be transferred to table games were transferred. The employees that only had poker experience have been given the opportunity to learn other games as well so they are able to transfer between various games if they desire.'
As a result of the closure poker tournaments were canceled several weeks ago, according to casino staff.
Located on the third floor, the room formerly used for poker once served as a place for individuals to watch simulcast horse racing.
Dover Downs Poker Room Closed Point
A spokeswoman for Twin River initially denied the poker room was closing. A second spokeswoman later confirmed the room would no longer host table games.
The deal with Twin River, a Rhode Island-based company that operates casinos and hotels in Rhode Island and Mississippi and a horse track in Colorado, was announced in July just weeks after lawmakers approved tax relief for the state's three casinos.
The merger included Dover Downs' 500-room hotel and banquet hall. Dover International Speedway remains owned by Dover Motorsports, which split off from the gaming company in 2002.
Supporters said the changes — lowering the slot tax rate 1 percent, cutting the table game tax rate almost in half and suspending the $3 million table game license fee — were necessary to help protect jobs and the nine-figure sum the state annually receives from the casinos.
State Sen. Trey Paradee, a Dover Democrat who was one of the chief backers of casino tax relief, said Friday he would be disappointed if layoffs follow the merger but believes the legislation approved last year was good policy.
'We really put them in the position (where) they were just treading water,' he said.
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The casino, the only public corporate gambling establishment in Delaware, lost money in two of the last five years and made a net profit of $30,000 in 2018.
At the end of 2018, Dover Downs had 1,388 employees, 906 of whom were full-time.
Several top executives with Dover Downs were let go or retired earlier this spring.
Staff writer Matt Bittle can be reached at 741-8250 or mbittle@newszap.com.Follow @MatthewCBittle on Twitter.
