The Texas Hold’em poker zone on the main floor of Wynn Macau, a casino resort run by Wynn Macau Ltd on the city’s peninsula, was lights-off this week, and has been since late January. That is based on GGRAsia’s recent site visits and information from industry sources.
GGRAsia has approached the casino operator for comment. The Wynn Macau property has offered poker for a number of years, including before Covid-19. In the post-pandemic period, the location of the property’s poker room shifted, but was still within the main casino floor.
As of GGRAsia’s Tuesday checks, a number of other Texas Hold’em poker zones in Macau remain in operation. They include “Sands Poker Club”, within the “Phoenix Area” on the main floor of The Venetian Macao, a Cotai casino resort operated by Sands China Ltd.
The game is also being offered at the “MGM Poker” zone on the main floor of MGM Cotai, a property run by MGM China Holdings Ltd.
Texas Hold’em poker saw something of a retreat in the Macau casino market last year. Two zones – one at MGM Macau, the peninsula property of MGM China; and one at SJM Holdings Ltd’s Grand Lisboa Palace on Cotai – were shuttered within the first half of 2025. Both those poker zones had been observed as in operation since 2023.
The game of Texas Hold’em poker has seen ebbs and flows in interest from operators and from players in Macau, including during the post-pandemic era from 2023.
Industry commentators had remarked to GGRAsia at the time that while this segment was not one of the most profitable for casinos because of the rake model, it had been helpful as a marketing tool to attract younger customers and non-Chinese tourists.
In 2025, Texas Hold’em poker in the Macau market generated gross gaming revenue (GGR) of MOP975 million (US$121 million). That was a record for the segment, based on data from the city’s casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), going back to 2008.
The 2025 GGR tally for the game was up 10.4 percent year-on-year. In 2024, the segment produced MOP883 million in GGR.
Based on GGRAsia’s review of publicised Macau poker events, since the new casino concession system began in January 2023, the Macau gaming sector has focused on house-promoted tournaments, rather than ones promoted by international poker brands.
A number of industry commentators has speculated that Macau’s barring – under the present regulatory system that came in with the new concessions – on its casino operators sharing revenue with third parties, had created a hurdle for poker brands aspiring to hold events in Macau.
GGRAsia has previously approached DICJ, seeking comment on whether there were any regulatory barriers to poker brands promoting events in Macau.
