The Encore Boston Harbor, pictured above. The Massachusetts casino is unlikely to resume live poker. (Image:
Boston Globe)
“Poker never really attracted the kind of audience that could make it profitable,” the Rev. Richard McGowan, a finance professor, told
Casino.org.
Unless some of the high rollers demand that it return, there is no reason to reinstate it.”
He explains that the typical patron at MGM Springfield or Plainridge Park Casino is not a poker player.
Poker games were halted at Massachusetts gaming properties when they were shuttered because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Poker was not offered as the venues reopened.
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