Spent last weekend at Sky City Auckland. It runs a few tables of 2/4 with a max buy in of $300! The rake is 10% capped at $15!! The players are generally tight with the odd bad player. The 5/5 rarely gets up, even at weekends and breaks early. The rake is capped at $15 but the buy in is up to $1000. Poker has taken the world by storm - it's in living rooms, on TV and even at the local pub. But in New Zealand, nobody delivers poker quite like SKYCITY Casino Auckland.

Dress Codes SKYCITY Auckland: No patches related to gangs or other relevant insignia’s. No hats or caps, exceptions for religious or medical reasons, in poker room ok. No sunnies, in poker room ok. No torn, broken or damaged clothing. No soiled clothes or dirty footwear. No safety or trade clothing apparel. No sleeveless, singlet tops on men. It’s a common saying that in New Zealand, nobody delivers poker quite like Skycity Casino Auckland. It has a dedicated Poker Room on level two where Poker players can enjoy exclusive tournaments, their own private bar and exclusive food offers. On offer to Poker are weekly tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $75 to $175. 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.

The SKYCITY Casino is the largest casino in New Zealand with more than 2000 pokies machines available that’s open around the clock 24 hours a day to play the pokies, how could you possibly lose 🙂 The casino is located at the corner or Victoria and Federal Street in the Auckland CBD of New Zealand. The Sky Towers is the tallest structure in Auckland with a height of 328 meters and is more than 20 years old.

The towers have two hotels, twenty plus bars and restaurants, a seven hundred seat theater showing all the best entertainment. The SKYCITY hotels are open 365 days of the year and it’s the best place to stay in central Auckland.

The Casino at Skycity Towers is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (except XMAS day, Good Friday & part of Anzac day) and offers live entertainment. It has 2150 gaming machines and over 160 table games. Customers are advised to only play at the levels which they can afford to pay.

Only individuals above the age of twenty are allowed access to the casino gaming areas and identity proof will be verified at the time of entry to the casino using government issued id proof.

The casino also offers a number of table games like Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat. Rules for playing these games are available at the website, or customers can contact the table games staff for details. Variations of the games like Blackjack Plus, Blackjack Ante, Money wheel, Rapid Baccarat, Rapid Roulette, Ez Baccarat, Player select Blackjack and Viva Roulette can also be played.

This is the largest pokies gaming venue in Auckland CBD by far with more than 2150 pokies machines. The casino floor has all your favourite pokies from Ainsworth, IGT, Aristocrat and many more. Scores of jackpot progressive games available to play like all the Aristocrat Lightning Link pokies machines.

Customers playing on the pokies gaming machines can get rewarded in different ways using the return play, points into pay, power winner, bonus play, celebration bonus and free-play feature of several great features available.

Playing poker has become extremely popular in New Zealand, and pubs, and other facilities regular host poker games. Unlike other casino games, the poker players are playing against each other, and not against the house. However, the casino does charge a fee for hosting the poker tournaments which are usually held weekly. The fee is usually displayed on the table.

The minimum and maximum buy in for each of the games is specified along with rake % and cap. The main tournament Deep stack is held at the end of each month. Players have access to a private bar for a few drinks. The casino also has twenty baccarat tables with a dedicated host.

The casino also has a rewards program for its regular customers the Platinum and VIP black programs. It claims that these are some of best rewards programs for casino gamblers in Asia.

Learn to play at the SKYCITY Casino

Skycity Auckland Poker Room Layout

For those who are new to gambling or not familiar with the game, the SKYCITY casino is also offering learn to play packages. These packages are an affordable and simple way to play the various casino table games and are ideal for end of conference celebrations, team building or work events.

The games which are taught include Roulette, Baccarat, Poker, Blackjack, Texas Holdem Poker, Caribbean Stud Poker and Three card poker. The $400 learn to play package for up to ten persons, includes table games with a pro dealer for one hour, $10 single bet chip for each person, and beverages. The premium package costs $620 and includes an additional beverage, platters from Sammy’s lounge. Interested people can book a package, though a 20% deposit will be required.

Room options at SKYCITY Casino

You can stay right at the casino in the SKYCITY hotel, many cheaper room options are available within 5 minutes of the casino itself.

Dress codes at SKYCITY Casino Auckland

The following items of dress are not allowed in the casino….

• • Jandals, thongs or flip flops from 9pm to 5am
  • Gang emblems, patches or insignias of such things
  • Hats or caps (except one sworn for religious or medical reasons or within the Poker Zone area)
  • Sunnies (except within the Poker Zone which is considered ok)
  • Torn or damaged clothing (except if it came off the rack like that)
  • Soiled clothing or footwear
  • Safety or tradie style clothing, so don’t wear your hard hat
  • Singlet style tops on men

SKYCITY casino reserves the right to refuse entry where patrons are not attired correctly or those who are not at least 20 years of age. Just dress neat and tidy and you won’t have any issues with the security on entry.

Opening hours

Skycity Auckland Poker Tournament

24/7 x 365 days – Closed on XMAS Day, Good Friday and between 3am – 1pm on Anzac Day.

Skycity Auckland Poker Room Games

Contacts

Website
9-363 6000
SKYCITY Auckland
Victoria Street &, Federal St, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand

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