Las Vegas Hilton Closing Poker Room

It's official – the Las Vegas Hilton's poker room is closing its doors to the public on Wednesday, October 17. The 11-table room has been open since August of 2005, a little more than two years, according to poker room manager Mark Nelson. Pending its definitive closure, the Hilton card room will be the first in Las Vegas to shut down since poker's resurgence in 2003. The off-strip room struggled to fill the tables in its brief existence and was perhaps overshadowed by the Hilton's world-famous sports book, located just a few feet away.