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Poker Room

Poker Room

Chicagoland's newest Poker Room!

Chicagoland’s premier poker room is open! At 5,600 square feet, this is the newest addition to Rivers Casino’s overall 78,000 square foot expansion. This room was built just for poker players!

Rivers Casino is your premier gaming destination. More jackpots. More tables. More dining. Now, there’s even more ways to win. Deal yourself in at Chicagoland’s newest poker room. Fifty-six hundred square feet. Twenty-two tables. It’s all the excitement you’ve been looking for.

Check back to learn more about upcoming tournaments and promotions. 

Learn more about Poker at Rivers Casino!  

Texas Hold’em (usually shortened to just Hold’em) is the most popular poker game. It can be played Limit, Pot Limit or No Limit, with somewhat different strategies for each. Texas Hold’em is a community card game where players are each dealt two cards while sharing five common cards. The player who stays in the pot until the end and combines their cards with the community ones to make the best five card hand wins, unless no one calls in which case the only remaining hand wins.  

Omaha is a community card game similar to Texas Hold’em, Omaha players get four personal cards and share five community cards. Omaha players must use two cards from their held card and three from the exposed community cards. Most often played eight-or-better high-low split, Omaha is also played high only and also can be played Limit, Pot Limit or (rarely) No Limit. All games are played with forced bets known as “blinds,” both a small and big blind. The small blind is usually approximately half the minimum bet of the round and the big blind is equal to the minimum bet of the round. These games also have a “Dealer Button” that travels clockwise around the table to determine which player receives the first card and which player is last to take action.

Stud Poker has many versions. Seven Card Stud is the most popular version played in casinos; however, Seven Card Stud High-Low is becoming more popular. Stud High-Low with an eight or better qualifier is the most common form of High-Low Stud in casinos. Five Card Stud is rarely played in casinos. Seven Card Stud is played with two down (hidden) cards and four face up (exposed) cards followed by a final down card.

What beats what? 

Here’s a quick reference for winning hands from highest to lowest

  1. Royal flush. A, K, Q, J, 10, all the same suit
  2. Straight flush. Five cards in a sequence, all in the same suit
  3. Four of a kind. All four cards of the same rank
  4. Full house. Three of a kind with a pair
  5. Flush. Five cards are the same suite
  6. Straight. Five cards in a sequence 
  7. Three of a kind.
  8. Two pair
  9. One pair
  10. High card

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1:48PM February 28, 2023
Congrats to the lucky guests who triggered a $94,194 Bad Beat Jackpot this weekend playing No Limit Texas Hold'em! The winning hand of a Royal Flush beat out 4 Kings. https://t.co/v1EBeMjYY0
3:51PM February 16, 2023
Congrats to the lucky guests who triggered a $191,031 Bad Beat Jackpot playing No Limit Texas Hold'em! The winning hand of 4 Aces beat out 4 Jacks. https://t.co/8fF8HavYEA
1:59PM July 26, 2022
Congratulations to our lucky guests for winning a share of the $84,900 Bad Beat Jackpot!
12:57PM April 14, 2022
We are looking for Table Games Dealers! Come in for an interview today between 10:00AM and 6:00PM. Rivers Casino offers great benefits including having paid out over $4 million in scholarships to our team members and their children! Learn more: https://t.co/xPLuW1ySWj https://t.co/JSHSkYPrfE