• Parq Vancouver offers locals and guests instant access to a wide range of amenities, including 72,000 square feet of world-class casino space spanning across two floors and featuring 11 private gaming salons, a 30,000 square-foot rooftop park, more than 60,000 square feet of well-appointed meeting and event space, and eight restaurants.
• Fresh on the scene as a leading international entertainment destination, Parq is Vancouver's entertainment district.
• Parq Vancouver really is brand new and it shows in their gaming floor. They use state of the art gaming machines and facilities. This includes over 600 of the best and newest slot machines from the likes of Konami, Bally and others.
• PHOTOS: First Look Inside Parq Vancouver’s Restaurants, Bars, and Hotel With 75 gaming tables, 600 slot machines, a poker room and 11 exclusive salons for private games, the Casino is sure to impress. Also, floor-to-ceiling windows promise bountiful amounts of natural light will enter the casino, making for a more comfortable experience.

The six-table Parq Vancouver Casino Poker Room regularly run $1/$3 No Limit Hold'em with $100 to $400 Buy-in and $1/$2 Pot Limit Omaha Hi with $200 to No Max cash games. Poker room amenities include TVs, cocktail service, check cashing, order food from table, auto shufflers, food tableside, massage, WiFi, cash games and more!

Where to Play Poker In Vancouver?

The best places to play live poker games in Vancouver is at the poker rooms in the local casinos, I recommend the River Rock Casino for its large tournaments and soft cash games.

Vancouver Casino Poker Rooms

Parq Casino Poker Room - Daily poker cash games and poker tournaments, Located in Coquitlam BC. Offers Texas hold em limit and no limit as well as Omaha on 12 poker tables. Find out more at Parq Casino Poker Cash Games & Tournaments

Parq Vancouver

39 Smithe Street

Vancouver Brittish Columbia

1-604-683-7277

Hard Rock Casino Vancouver Poker Room - Here in what used to be the Boulevard Casino there are 5 Ultimate Texas Holdem tables, Four Card Poker, Fast Action Holdem Poker and 2 Fortune Pai Gow poker Tables. All of these are casino poker not your classic Texas Holdem or Omaha. Table games run 24 / 7. Find out more at Hard Rock Casino Poker

Hard Rock Casino Vancouver

2080 United Boulivard

Coquitlam Brittish Columbia

1-604-523-6888

River Rock Casino Poker Room - Home of the BC Poker Championships. The 18 poker table room is Canada's largest and offers a variety of live cash games for limit, no limit, Omaha, Omaha 8 or better, and Seven Card Stud. Located at Find out more at: River Rock Casino Poker

River Rock Casino Resort

8811 River Road

Richmond Brittish Columbia

1-604-273-1895

Victoria Poker Rooms

Where to Play Poker in Victoria?

Elements Poker Room - Used to be the Roayl Casino in Victoria. Features Seven Card Stud but no Texas Hold em. Find out more at Elements Casino

Elements Casino Victoria

1708 Old Island Highway

Victoria Brittish Columbia

1-250-391-0311

Vancouver Poker Rooms vs Online Poker Sites

Well we have all heard that there is nothing like playing at your local Vancouver poker room or even Las Vegas, but what would be some of the advantages of playing poker online? There are a few advantages compared to playing at Vancouver poker rooms, the main ones are: You can play multiple tables at once and the number of hands per hour is increased by a factor of 4 to 12; The house rake is much lower sometimes as little as half online.

You don't have to travel anywhere - you can play anytime you want; You can change games in an instant; Play at smaller or larger stakes than are available at your local casino; tournaments run far faster and you can play in multiple tournaments at the same time for larger cash prizes. Well that's just a few of them not to mention that you can play at home in your underwear! Below are listed the top poker sites to play poker at home in Vancouver.

Best Online Poker Sites for Vancouver BC

It is the end of an era for not only downtown Vancouver’s waterfront casino but one of the remaining buildings of the Plaza of Nations.

Edgewater Casino at False Creek will close on the morning of September 29, the same day the new Parq Vancouver casino hotel resort opens across the street on the west side of BC Place Stadium.

The exterior of Enterprise Hall at the Plaza of Nations, home to Edgewater Casino. (midnightglory / Flickr)

Paragon Gaming opened the temporary casino within the Plaza of Nations’ Enterprise Hall in 2005 with the intention of constructing a new purpose-built facility in downtown. Its staff will move into the company’s new complex on the day Edgewater Casino shuts down.

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Up until the casino’s move-in, for many years Enterprise Hall had been used as a space for meetings, conventions, concerts and other special events.

Edgewater Casino vs. Parq Vancouver casino hotel resort

Parq Vancouver’s purpose-built casino space is 72,000-sq-ft, about twice the size of Edgewater Casino’s 36,000-sq-ft casino floor in Enterprise Hall.

While the doubled floor area in the new casino suggests many more games, the gambling offerings of the new casino space will not exceed Edgewater’s existing license for 600 slot machines and 75 table games, which is a stipulation of the City of Vancouver’s approval of Parq Vancouver in 2013.

But the new space also features a poker room and 11 exclusive salons for a private gaming experience.

Artistic rendering of Parq Vancouver casino and hotel resort. (Parq Vancouver)

The casino could potentially expand its game offerings in the future; the original application to the City called for 1,500 slot machines and 150 table games within the same casino floor area size.

Moreover, Parq Vancouver is much more than just a casino. The $700-million, 700,000-sq-ft complex is a resort, with 517 hotel rooms between two luxury Marriott hotels, eight restaurants and lounges, 62,000-sq-ft of meeting and convention space, and a 30,000-sq-ft outdoor rooftop public space.

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Future of the Plaza of Nations

The Plaza of Nations was originally built as the BC Pavilion for the Expo ’86 World’s Fair, and comprised of four structures – Enterprise Hall, the West Building, the East Building, and the covered outdoor plaza.

The West Building, remnants of the Expo monorail tracks, and the glass roof of the outdoor plaza were demolished in 2007.

Photo taken in the 2000s of the now-demolished glass roof of the Plaza of Nations’ outdoor plaza and the remnants of the monorail tracks. (Clubzone)

At the time, landlord Canadian Metropolitan Properties said the glass roof was no longer safe as the bolts holding the metal frame and glass panels together had severely rusted.

It remains to be seen what Enterprise Hall will be used for over the interim, before the Plaza of Nations is completely demolished for a major mixed-use redevelopment project.

The proposed redevelopment includes: thousands of residential units; a new entertainment district with restaurants, bistros, bars, and craft breweries; a Vancouver Canucks practice ice rink that doubles as a community public ice rink when the team is not using it; and large plazas and an extension of the seawall.

Artistic rendering of the future redevelopment of the Plaza of Nations. (James Cheng Architects)

Artistic rendering of the future redevelopment of the Plaza of Nations. (James Cheng Architects)

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