Table games are the very backbone of most casinos in Las Vegas and Nevada as a whole, yet one property is rumored to be dealing them a final hand. OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas will supposedly shutter all of its table games at the end of the month.
Live Dealers Let Go at End of October at OYO Hotel & Casino Las Vegas
Las Vegas Locally, a respected local media, which gets the inside scoop of such stories first, has confirmed that OYO management has told employees that they will be let go if they work in the live dealer table games part of the casino, for the most part, and the move is not entirely without its logic.
OYO Las Vegas previously reduced the operational hours of its table games to between 11 am and 3 am and is now most likely moving to shut operations completely. Some rumors live dealers had already been shuttered previously.
OYO Las Vegas, though, is not a random property, and it has cultivated a fair crop of table games players, especially blackjack. Off-ramping from table games is not exactly surprising. Golden Gate, another prominent casino destination, has already replaced its live dealer games with electronic variants, and the slump in live dealer employment is, in fact, noticeable well across Las Vegas.
Yet, the layoffs in the live dealer sector may be tied to the economic reality – the sector costs too much to maintain, and there has been a slump in tourist numbers. This is a U-turn from the 2020 post-pandemic period, when businesses were looking to train live dealers for free and quickly expand in the table games genre.