Horseshoe & Paris: Your Guide to the Home of the World Series of Poker (WSOP)

The 2025 World Series of Poker is about to get underway, and poker’s biggest and most prestigious festival is back in its now-familiar home on the Las Vegas Strip.

For the fourth consecutive summer, the great and good of the poker world will descend on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, a venue that, despite being a relatively recent change, already feels like home for the game’s biggest names and dream-chasers.

With the preparations still being made ahead of the start of the 2025 WSOP on May 27, PokerNews is here to give you a guide on things like:

The venue for the 2025 World Series of Poker is the Horseshoe and Paris, located on the Las Vegas strip.

Valet services will be available at the main hotel entrances of both properties:

Rates increase to $25 per day on Thursday through Sunday for non-hotel guests, while hotel lodgers pay a flat rate of $20 per day. Reduced-price weekly parking passes will also be available for $100 and can be purchased at the WSOP Main Cage inside the Champagne Ballroom at Paris Las Vegas.

There are two major parking facilities and valet services available to guests and poker players throughout the WSOP.

Paris Las Vegas Parking Garage

Park here, walk the path, take the escalator and you will end up right next to the Paris Conference Center (where the Main WSOP Cage, cash games, and Day 1 tables are located)

Horseshoe Parking Lot

Park here, walk upstairs into the Horseshoe Event Center (where all Final Tables, streaming and TV production, Day 2 and restart tables are located)

The WSOP being at the Rio is a thing of the past:

Split between the Paris Convention Center and the Horseshoe Event Center, here’s a quick rundown on what events will be taking place where, and how to buy in.

This year, the WSOP is making it easier than ever to register and buy into events. Players can now use the WSOP+ app to pre-register, pay for tournaments, and join a virtual queue, all from their smartphone. The app also features live event info, seat assignments, chip counts, payouts, and more, making it a one-stop shop for everything WSOP 2025.

Paris Convention Center

For those preferring in-person registration, the WSOP Main Cage will be open 24/7 starting at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, May 27, inside the Champagne Ballroom at Paris Las Vegas.

There, players can still buy into events using:

• Cash
• Chips
• Credit Card
• Cashier’s Check
• WSOP Tournament Account Credit
• Wire Transfers (5 day waiting period)

First-time users of the app must complete in-person ID verification, which can be done at the Online Registration area inside the Champagne Ballroom. The Burgundy Ballroom will once again serve as the spot for Fastrac and online account verification.

The WSOP Retail Store, Player Services, and Caesars Rewards desk will also be located at Paris for easy access.

For poker events, all Day 1 starts on the WSOP schedule will be played here, as well as all $10,000 and above bracelets. King’s Lounge and Live Action, as well as Deepstacks, WSOP Mega Satellites and Single Table Satellites will all take place at Paris.

Horseshoe Event Center

If you’re planning on winning a bracelet this summer, then you’ll want to end up at at the Horseshoe Event Center with CBS feature TV tables located here.

Horsehoe Grand Ballroom

Day 2 restarts and events over $10,000 will take place in the Horseshoe Grand Ballroom, with extra capacity for any large Day 1 overflow in popular WSOP events.

Various Las Vegas hotels are offering discount rates for WSOP Players. They include the Rio, Paris, Horsehoe, Harrah’s, Flamingo, Caesars Palace, Planet Hollywood, and The Linq.

If players have already booked accommodation at these hotels, they can provide their tournament receipt to the reservations desk and have the rates converted to the special WSOP entrant poker rates upon availability.

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The switch to the Strip means an increase in the dining opportunities for WSOP players and hotel patrons alike. As usual, the WSOP Café returns, located at the Versailles room in the Paris Convention Center.

Here are a number of other food and restaurant options easily accessible either from Paris or Horsehoe:

• Gordon Ramsay Steak
• Nobu
• Vanderpump à Paris
• Bobby’s Flay Burgers
• Bobby’s Burgers
• Mon Ami Gabi
• Eiffel Tower Restaurant
• Burger Brassiere
• Nosh Deli
• Horseshoe Food Court

Related: How to Stay Healthy in Las Vegas During the WSOP

Based in the United Kingdom, Will started working for PokerNews as a freelance live reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time staff in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor. He graduated from the University of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He also holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports Journalism.

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Eliot Thomas is a Content Executive at PokerNews, specializing in casino and poker coverage. He has reported from major events including the European Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker.

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