The limited hours for cash-game poker will allow The Venue to continue to be used for its primary purpose, a weekly Saturday night event.
Hammond Horseshoe offered no explanation for the switch. Instead of tables being opened in the casino’s regular poker room, a stylish but secluded and enclosed area, cash games are being moved to The Venue, the casino’s large, second-floor pavilion which also serves as the venue’s home for concerts, comedy shows, and other entertainment. The reason for the weekday-only reopening is a shift in the location of Hammond Horseshoe’s cash-game offerings. Hammond Horseshoe’s planned poker reopening will occur at 10 am on Monday, but poker will be only a 24/4 (not 24/7) offering for the near future, with each week’s action concluding on Friday at 5 am. Cash-game action returns to Hammond Horseshoe, but it will be hosted in the casino’s long-time tourney series home, The Venue. The Caesars-owned property notified its customers of the pending reopening earlier this week. Indiana’s Hammond Horseshoe casino will resume offering cash-game poker on Monday, April 19, ending a COVID-19-induced shutdown that has kept one of the Midwest’s most popular poker rooms shuttered for more than a year.
