Caesars Entertainment has officially opened its new casino in Danville, Virginia, which includes a stylish 21-table, WSOP-branded poker room to serve the area's players (as illustrated in the above - somewhat surreal - AI image taken from the new room's website). The new Caesars Virginia casino, located in south-central Virginia just a few miles north of the state's border with North Carolina, opened to large crowds on Wednesday according to area news outlets.
The casino complex includes a 320-room hotel, 12 restaurants and bars, and other amenities. Including the new poker room, the casino offers 100,000 square feet of gaming space, which also includes a standalone sports book, 1,500 slots and 79 table games.
Wednesday's official opening fulfills Caesars' promise that the Danville location would open in 2024. Construction on the casino began in August of 2022. The project carried a $650 million price tag and was built in partnership with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, which also works as Caesars' gaming-license partner in neighboring North Carolina
Tournaments at Danville await launch
The WSOP room at Caesars Virginia is already open for cash-game play, but the room will likely need a few weeks to build enough traffic and market its planned tournament offerings. The casino's dedicated poker-room landing page does not yet offer any information about scheduled tourney offerings.
While daily tourneys are all but certain to begin early in 2025, it remains to be seen whether any major WSOP Circuit series will be offered there. One of Caesars' and the WSOP's largest and most versatile poker venues is at Harrah's Cherokee in Cherokee, North Carolina, not too far away.
The always-well-attended Cherokee Circuit stops are an anchor of the WSOP's Circuit tour, and the Cherokee casino is just a four-hour drive from Caesars Virginia. However, and despite the fact that some conference-room space at the new Danville casino would likely have to be put in use for a new Circuit stop, Caesars Virginia is that much closer to the populous east-central Atlantic Coast corridor, an area generally underserved for live poker.
