The Live! Pittsburgh mini-casino obtained Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board approval Wednesday morning to open its poker room, which it intends to do Monday.
The seven-table space is among many modifications being undertaken at the 13-month-old venue by The Cordish Companies, operator of both the Live! casino in Philadelphia and the smaller sister property at Westmoreland Mall. Using a group of newly trained staff, the second-floor poker room will occupy 1,500 square feet that had been formerly used as a banquet room, casino officials stated in a press release this week.
They previously announced in November that the poker room addition was in the works, which was unusual in that in the COVID era has seen other casinos reduce live poker operations rather than expand them.
