A schedule of Seminole Hard Rock Casino Tampa poker tournaments, including time, buy-in, blind structure, and more. You also can find Seminole Hard Rock Casino Tampa phone number, address,. Poker players can experience the thrill of top tournament play at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood’s award-winning Poker Room. While some properties are limiting play strictly to slots, Hard Rock Tampa is also opening the poker room under new “Safe and Sound” program guidelines. According to PR manager Darien Cobb, this.

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Businesses are beginning to reopen across the country amid the pandemic, including many casinos and cardrooms. This is especially true in Florida, where the popular Hard Rock Tampa is slated to open its doors on Thursday, May 21.

While some properties are limiting play strictly to slots, Hard Rock Tampa is also opening the poker room under new “Safe and Sound” program guidelines. According to PR manager Darien Cobb, this includes plexiglass dividers at poker tables, which will be played six-handed. An image of the said table was recently tweeted by the property.

In addition, players will be required to wear face masks while on site. To help encourage participation, the room will offer a $3 max-rake promotion upon reopening.

Other guidelines that’ll be instituted include temperature checks for all guests and workers upon casino entry, requiring masks, alternating slot machines to encourage social distancing, plexiglass barriers at table games, hand-sanitizing stations, and a thorough cleaning and disinfecting regiment. The property will also reopen with a 50 percent reduction in guest capacity.

Poker Community Reacts

Not surprisingly, poker players didn’t seem too excited about the new table setup.

“This is making me sick just looking at is,” tweeted @Ori13TTV.

“Who would purposely sit in that jail?” asked @SeanGPoker.

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Others piled on calling into question the effectiveness of the setup and pointing out that it’ll do little good if players are sharing the same cards and chips. It was not immediately clear what officials had planned for sanitation in that regard.

Finally, some used the announcement as the impetus to call for online poker advocacy, suggesting that casinos, like the Hard Rock Tampa, should put time and effort into lobbying state officials for online gaming legislation.

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“Why have they not legalized online poker but they have legalized sports betting?” asked Tony Chalhoub. “It’s puzzling. This would be the perfect time to get online poker going.”

A Seminole Hard Rock Coming to Vegas?

In other Hard Rock news, it was announced last week that the Seminole Tribe of Florida’s Hard Rock International (HRI) – which operates in 76 countries and has a flagship property in South Florida – had purchased all the rights to the Hard Rock brand in Las Vegas from Juniper Capital.

Not only does the deal give HRI full rights to memorabilia, signage, website domain names, and merchandise, as well as intellectual property rights for affiliated restaurant and entertainment trademarks, but also opens the door for them to enter the Las Vegas market.

Before HRI acquired the rights, they were restricted from either developing, owning or operating a Hard Rock-branded venue within Clark County.

“This agreement marks an exciting chapter for Hard Rock, in Las Vegas and beyond,” said Hard Rock International Chairman Jim Allen. “We look forward to the opportunity of enhancing our presence in Las Vegas, which will always be one of the most iconic entertainment markets in the world.”

Essentially, the road is now paved for HRI to open a casino in Las Vegas if they so choose, which is an exciting prospect for any player who’s stepped foot inside the Seminole Hard Rock Florida. The venue is one of the most popular poker stops on the circuit with World Series of Poker Circuit, World Poker Tour, and SHRPO stops.

Images courtesy of Hard Rock.

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Poker in South Florida received a big boost this weekend as both the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino properties in Hollywood and Coconut Creek reopened their doors on Friday, June 12.

The properties, which have been closed since March 20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, opened under “Safe+Sound” guidelines, which include guests being required to wear a mask, temperature screenings, and a 50 percent max occupancy.

For poker players, the following precautions and procedures will be in place:

  • The poker room will run 25 of their 45 tables
  • Active tables will feature Plexiglass dividers
  • All games will be played max six-handed
  • Both players and staff will be required to wear masks
  • Cards and chips will be cleaned on a regular basis
  • Food not permitted in the poker room. Players can request a 60-minute dinner break.
  • One table or seat change allowed per session

Both Seminole properties have host prolific tournament series including Seminole Showdowns, World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit stops, and Moneymaker's Road to PSPC. The reopening come about three weeks after their sister property, Hard Rock Tampa, resumed their operations on May 21.

'Major tournament series for Seminole Hard Rock Poker have been well-established globally over the last 10 years,' the poker team at Seminole Gaming told PokerNews. 'When the time is right, these series will return with the same first-class experience that the players have come to know and love.'

The Hard Rock Tampa poker room, which opened under the same guidelines outlines above, saw an immediate demand as poker players not only flocked to the tables, but were willing to put their names on long waiting lists.

'The opening of poker at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa went extremely well. It has been open for over three weeks and the tables remain full, with lists,' the Seminole poker team added. 'Much of the credit goes to Director of Poker Operations, Pablo Perez.'

All Seminole Hard Rock properties have also been equipped with air purification and disinfecting systems

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“The health and safety of our team members and guests has always been of upmost importance to our senior leadership team and Tribal Council,” Seminole Hard Rock said in a statement. “We want to make sure that we are doing everything that we can to provide a safe environment for our team members and you, our loyal customers.”

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It continued: “As information is changing rapidly and we are learning more daily about COVID-19 and how to stop the spread, we will continue to regularly update the Safe+Sound protocols based on facts and data provided by our partners, industry councils, as well as global and governmental agencies.”

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