Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa, Florida Opens New 10,000 square-foot Poker Room

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Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa, Florida Opens New 10,000 square-foot Poker Room

Submitted by Crystalynn Harris on Thu, 12/16/2010 - 3:04pm

Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa, Florida just announced the opening of its new 10,000 square-foot poker room. The new room features a high limit area, a service bar, a spacious multi-station cashier stand, three brush stands and its own restrooms.
"The new Poker Room allows us to continue to offer the best high stakes live action poker and tournaments on the West Coast of Florida,” said Russ Christianson, casino vice president for the Tampa Hard Rock.
The new room will debut with a series of special poker events running December 21-24. Events include winning free prizes such as t-shirts and card spinners to $500 hi-hands.
Players can sign up to play with local radio personality, Cowhead, from 102.5 The Bone, starting at 3 p.m. in the Hard Rock Cafe during the Cowhead Christmas Party on December 23. The tournament will kick off at 9 p.m. in the new room with buy-ins starting at $535.
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Tampa, Florida has almost 190,000 square-feet of gaming space dedicated to non-stop action including over 4.200 slot machines and fifty live action tables as well as the spacious new poker room.
For more information, call 1-800-937-0010 or visit www.hardrockhotelcasinotampa.com.

Can you imagine being a dealer at this joint??

WOW

My parents have a condo on the gulf coast of Florida about 10 min from this place. We went on opening weekend a couple years back.....it was a FREAKIN mad house. With this it will be worse

Best dealing job in America.........

I once had the pleasure of seeing TheRX's own legendary poker player, DANTE, rattle numberous opponents at this joint.............and watched in awe as he cashed in bigtime.

Yea I love it there. Every time I go I make good money playing poker. I tell ya what....if I was not married with 3 kids....I would play poker at the casinos for a living..........I love the back rubs the girls with the huge ta ta's give you!

CujoLatte said:

Yea I love it there. Every time I go I make good money playing poker. I tell ya what....if I was not married with 3 kids....I would play poker at the casinos for a living..........I love the back rubs the girls with the huge ta ta's give you!

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Speaking of poker room massages, what do you think of this one?

CujoLatte said:

Yea I love it there. Every time I go I make good money playing poker. I tell ya what....if I was not married with 3 kids....I would play poker at the casinos for a living..........I love the back rubs the girls with the huge ta ta's give you!

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Thats what Anna Nicloe Smith was doing before her over dose.













sorry...tasteless joke

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Published: July 03, 2012
Updated: July 03, 2012 - 6:59 AM

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Seminole Hard Rock casino unveils $75 million expansion

By Richard Mullins


The recent opening of a major expansion at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino makes the gambling complex the sixth-largest in the world by some measures.

It means more parking, more slot machines, more restaurants and a small room full of slots where smoking isn't allowed.

"We never say we're done expanding," said Doug Hoppe, vice president of sales and marketing.

The expansion cost the casino $75 million and adds 32,000 additional square feet — roughly half the size of a large Publix store — bringing total gaming space to 190,000 square feet.

The number of slots expands from 4,200 to a little more than 5,000. A new parking garage increases parking from 3,700 spaces to more than 5,000, and there's a moving sidewalk that speeds the trip to the gaming floor. The number of poker tables won't change, but the number of table games like blackjack will grow from 94 to 110.

With the added gaming space, the Seminole Hard Rock now ranks sixth among all casinos in the world based on the number of seats where people can sit to play slots, poker or other games.

The complex also invested in new carpeting on much of the gaming floor and added a room with 71 slots for nonsmokers — though they still must pass through a smoking area to get there.

A new bakery-themed restaurant called Rise opened a few weeks ago, offering pastries, cookies, custom sandwiches and soups in bread bowls.

The casino held a massive job fair in April to fill 400 positions in gaming, restaurants, hotel operations, maintenance and security. Once finished hiring, the expanded casino will employ more than 3,500 people.

A lack of hotel rooms remains a limit for the casino operations because the hotel has only 250 rooms. At one point several years ago, casino executives had planned a 22-story hotel tower with roughly 750 new rooms, but those plans were put on hold when the tourism market slumped.

Already, the casino brings in 20,000 visitors a day, Hoppe said, with 30,000 on an especially busy weekend day. Probably 90 percent of visitors come within a two-hour travel radius, he said, so adding more hotel rooms would allow for more overnight guests from the much wider region.

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