Skycity Auckland Poker Room
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UPDATE: POKER ROOM CLOSED
With the COVID-19 pandemic under control in New Zealand once again, SkyCity Auckland casino has been allowed to remove all COVID-19 restrictions. Poker Legislation Poker Tournaments. Sky City Casino: Worst Poker Room Ever - See 586 traveler reviews, 128 candid photos, and great deals for Auckland Central, New Zealand, at Tripadvisor. Sky city Auckland is famous for its poker room. To play poker you will need to play with chips. Chips can be purchased from the Poker Booth. After playing, go to the cashier to change your chips back to cash or take them to another table to continue the fun.
Following the advice from the New Zealand Ministry of Health, SkyCity Auckland has put in place a number of additional social distancing measures to keep people safe.
For this reason, the Poker Room will be closed until further notice.
We appreciate your understanding.
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Try the thrill and excitement of Poker - the king of card games. With a set outlay and the duration undetermined, tournament poker is a fun way to learn the ins and outs of this popular game!
We are excited to announce that online registration and payment is available for selected Poker tournaments. To register online, click the ‘Register Now’ button (where available) under the tournament listing and follow the online instructions.
To register for any of our daily tournaments, you’ll need to visit the Poker Room at SkyCity Auckland and register in person on the day of the relevant tournament (but no earlier than 2 hours before the stated start time).
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In addition to our tournaments, cash games are also available on demand in the Poker Room at SkyCity Auckland (subject to table availability and the number of participants).
For tournament or registration enquiries, please phone (09) 363 6190 to speak to a Table Games Operations Manager or email poker@skycity.co.nz.
Skycity Auckland Poker Tournament
Almost all of the nearly 1,000 casinos in the United States have reopened and most of the world’s casinos have done so as well after months of lockdowns because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All major casinos, though, are still enforcing health and safety measures such as mandatory mask wearing, social distancing, severe capacity restrictions, and closures of certain service. All except one. On Wednesday, the SkyCity Auckland casino in New Zealand eliminated all of its COVID-19 protocols, as the city official had its coronavirus restrictions lifted.
To celebrate, the property’s famous Sky Tower lit up in rainbow colors as a way of “thanking Aucklanders for coming together in the ongoing fight against COVID-19.”
New Zealand has been arguably the Earth’s greatest success story when it comes to battling the pandemic, as now the entire country is at Alert Level 1. This is the lowest tier of the government’s COVID-19 Alert System.
“We can let ourselves once again feel pride,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, “that we managed to get to that position together.”
Though protective face coverings are no longer required, they are still encouraged “on public transport and when you cannot maintain physical distance from people you do not know.”
Ardern added that this does not mean COVID-19 has been eradicated from New Zealand, just that “there’s no sign of it currently.”
“We all want to avoid further restrictions,” she said, but “we need to stay vigilant.”
When the pandemic struck New Zealand earlier in the year, the country took action, creating isolation and quarantine facilities in hotels and quickly implementing a contact tracing program. Part of that included an app that would keep track of where individuals went so that if a COVID-19 case was detected, it would be easier to determine who may have been in contact with the infected person.
New cases peaked on March 28 at 146, but the number of daily new cases largely stayed under 100. By late April, COVID-19 was virtually gone. Until mid-August, most days had zero new cases and any days with new cases were only in the single digits.
There was an unfortunately resurgence of cases in August, though even then, new daily cases stayed under 20. Though the number of new cases was still low, Auckland had to go to Alert Level 3, which meant lockdowns. People were required to say home except to do things like go to the grocery store or engage in low-risk, socially distanced exercise. Public, non-essential venues, including casinos, were closed.
Ardern said this week that the summer cluster of 179 cases is now “under control.” There are three new cases, but the people are in isolation and none of them were the result of community spread. That is to say they were imported from elsewhere.