{"id":777011484,"date":"2023-11-28T09:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777011484"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:12:37","slug":"crown-melbourne-to-reintroduce-tournament-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-melbourne-to-reintroduce-tournament-poker","title":{"rendered":"Crown Melbourne to reintroduce tournament poker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The casino operator will host a weekly event from tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.-<strong> Crown Melbourne<\/strong> is to reintroduce tournament poker. It hasn&#8217;t held such an event since early 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and regulatory challenges stemming from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-resorts-found-unsuitable-to-operate-crown-melbourne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Finkelstein Royal Commission into Crown\u2019s Melbourne casino licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new weekly event is set to start tomorrow (November 29) and will feature a $250 buy-in. Crown Melbourne is relocating its poker room from its location in the Las Vegas Room upstairs to the first floor. It believes the new location will make poker more visible to the public and provide players with a better guest experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daniel Trubiano<\/strong>, Crown Melbourne\u2019s casino manager \u2013 Table Games, told Poker Media: \u201cOur aim is to bring tournament poker to back better than it was.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/crown-resorts-launches-new-campaign\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crown Resorts launches new campaign<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The casino operator will host a weekly event from tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":11882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Crown Melbourne is set to reintroduce weekly tournament poker, a gaming vertical suspended since early 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and regulatory challenges stemming from the Finkelstein Royal Commission. The operator is also relocating its poker room to a more visible first-floor location to enhance public access and player experience. This strategic move aims to restore the vertical's prominence within Crown's gaming offerings.","focusai_entities":"Crown Melbourne, Crown Resorts, Daniel Trubiano, Finkelstein Royal Commission, Poker Media","focusai_location":"Australia, Melbourne","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.98), compliance_legal (0.92), operator_casino (0.9), product_ux (0.75), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Compliance Impact?","query":"What specific regulatory conditions or operational improvements, mandated by the Finkelstein Royal Commission, were satisfied to enable the reintroduction of tournament poker at Crown Melbourne?"},{"label":"Projected GGR Contribution?","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) contribution from the re-established tournament poker vertical, and how does this compare to pre-2020 performance metrics and overall property GGR forecasts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,28],"tags":[23825,23907],"class_list":["post-777011484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","tag-crown-melbourne","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777011484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777011491,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011484\/revisions\/777011491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777011484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}