Rhode Island’s Twin River Casino opened up a 16-table poker room on Thursday, after beginning to flirt with the idea earlier this year. It’s the state’s only poker room.
Vice President and General Manager Craig Sculos says poker was the game Twin River needed to become a “full-blown casino.” Poker tables are open from noon to 4 a.m. On weekdays and games are held nonstop from Friday afternoon to 4 a.m.
- Dec 04, 2015 twin river opens poker room LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) — Twin River Casino in Lincoln has now begun to offer poker as the gambling house’s competition in New England continues to grow. WJAR-TV reports the poker games opened Thursday, December 3 shortly after noon.
- Twin River Tiverton Casino Hotel in Tiverton, Rhode Island will open doors on September 1, precisely a month ahead of schedule, property officials confirmed Thursday. John Taylor Jr., Chairman of the company behind the project, Twin River Management Group, told media that the work of the construction teams made it possible for the opening to take place at an earlier date.
The games offered are Texas hold’em and seven-card stud, and the room is open from noon to 4 a.m. during the week, but hours are expanded during the weekend. The room is open nonstop from Friday afternoon to 4 a.m. Monday, according to a report from NBC 10 News.
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Twin River received the OK to add house-banked table games just three years ago. It currently has 4,500 slot machines and more than 100 table games.
The casino also is planning a 200-room hotel, which could break ground this spring.
The move to make Twin River into a more robust casino comes not long after a slots casino opened up in neighboring Massachusetts.
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Combined with the Newport Grand slots parlor, Rhode Island’s gambling industry yields the state more than $350 million annually in tax revenue.
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