Best Nonsmoking Las Vegas Video Poker Options (2024)

Smoking is still prevalent in Las Vegas casinos. Park MGM is the only one that is entirely nonsmoking. Many locals casinos and two downtown ones have slot areas where smoking is not permitted. This leaves few options for players bothered by cigarette and cigar smoke. However, many video poker machines in nonsmoking areas offer great returns and clean air.

Payback percentages are theoretical and based on playing five coins per hand and using perfect strategy. Due to variance, short-term results are often different.

Park MGM

Park MGM is entirely nonsmoking

Park MGM offers the only nonsmoking casino floor on the Las Vegas Strip. While the video poker quality is typical of the Strip at most denominations, good games exist.

Players looking for bar service will find some games that return around 98% at Park MGM. The casino bar offers 7/5 Bonus Poker (98.01%), 9/5 Double Double Bonus (97.87%), and 9/6/5 Double Bonus (97.81%) at $1 and higher denominations. Don’t be fooled by the 9/6/4 Double Bonus offered in quarter and half-dollar denominations. While 9/6 sounds great for a paytable, this game returns 96.38%.

The high-limit slots room has 99% video poker. This starts at the $5 denomination and often goes up to $100. The options include 8/5 Bonus Poker (99.17%), 9/7 Double Bonus (99.11%), 9/6 Double Double Bonus (98.98%), and 15/9 Deuces Wild (98.91%).

Plaza

BCSlots Area, Bingo Lobby, Carousel Bar, and Sand Dollar Lounge

Plaza has four nonsmoking gaming areas. The locations are the BCSlots Area, Sand Dollar Lounge, Carousel Bar, and outside the bingo room on the third floor. Video poker with a 99% and better return is found in three of these areas. The best game is 9/6 Bonus Poker Deluxe (99.64%). That is the best nonsmoking bar video poker game in Las Vegas. The other 99% options are 9/6 Jacks or Better (99.54%), 9/7 Double Bonus, and 8/5 Bonus Poker. Carousel Bar has two Game King machines with the same paytables. These games are available in denominations of $0.50, $1, $2, and $5.

Two old Game Kings outside the bingo room offer the above games and an unusual Deuces and Joker Wild title (99.07%) where five wilds pay 10,000 credits, 2.5 times more than a royal flush. These two machines also have 9/6 Double Double Bonus (98.98%) and 15/9 Deuces Wild. Denominations run from $0.25 to $2.

The Carousel Bar is outside the main entrance. To avoid smoke, the bingo room is accessible from the parking deck and hotel elevators. Sand Dollar has an entrance on Main Street near the cab stand.

Green Valley Ranch

Nonsmoking room in former poker space near sportsbook

Green Valley Ranch, a Station Casinos property, converted its old poker room into a large nonsmoking area. The best nonsmoking video poker games in Las Vegas are in this room. A bank of 100% machines that deal 10/7 Double Bonus (100.17%), 15/8 Loose Deuces (100.15%), and 10/6 Double Double Bonus (100.06%). Double Bonus and Double Double Bonus come in quarter, half-dollar, and dollar denominations. Loose Deuces is only offered in quarters.

Green Valley Ranch also has two banks of “Up to 99.8%” machines. The options on these devices include 9/5 Triple Bonus Plus (99.8%), 16/10 Deuces Wild (99.73%), 9/5 Super Double Bonus (99.69%), 9/6 Bonus Poker Deluxe, 9/6 Jacks or Better, and 9/6 Double Double Aces and Faces (99.46%). These games come in $0.25, $0.50, and $1 options.

Santa Fe Station

Nonsmoking area between Oyster Bar and STN Sportsbook

Santa Fe Station, also a Station property, has a nonsmoking area between the sportsbook and oyster bar. It has the same 100% games as Green Valley Ranch does. It also has quarter, half-dollar, and dollar 8/5 Bonus Poker, 9/7 Double Bonus, and 9/6 Double Double Bonus. Enter from the parking deck closest to US 95 to avoid all smoking areas.

Rampart

Slot floor between sportsbook and buffet

Rampart has a nonsmoking area in the back of the casino near the hotel and sportsbook. Many machines are video poker. The best single-line video poker games are 8/5 Bonus Poker, 9/7 Double Bonus, and 9/6 Double Double Bonus. Ten Play machines add an 8/6 Bonus Poker game that pays double on a straight flush, giving it a return of 99.07%, as opposed to the normal 98.49% the 8/6 paytable typically pays. Denominations run from quarter up to dollar. Ten Play games run from nickel up to dollar. The back parking lot gives direct access to this area.

Suncoast

Second floor near bowling alley

Suncoast’s second-level casino floor is nonsmoking. The best option is 9/7 Triple Double Bonus Poker (99.58%). This wild game pays the same for four aces with a kicker as it does on a royal flush. The negative is that trips only pay two coins instead of three. Triple Double Bonus is available in denominations of $0.25, $0.50, and $1.

Other machines on the second floor have games around 99%. The options include 8/5 Bonus Poker, 9/7 Double Bonus, 9/6 Double Double Bonus, and 15/9 Deuces Wild. These are also available in denominations of $0.25, $0.50, and $1. Some permit players to bet up to 15 coins per hand while paying the full royal flush one a five-coin bet. Boyd Gaming operates Suncoast.

Gold Coast

West side of casino floor, enter doors closest to Wynn Road

Gold Coast, a Boyd Gaming casino, has a nonsmoking area on the west side of the building. A bank of eight “Up to 99.8%” machines is in the back near the sports bar. The best game is 9/5 Triple Bonus Plus. Other options include 9/6 Bonus Poker Deluxe, 9/6 Jacks or Better, 9/6 Double Double Aces and Faces, and 20/9 Bonus Deuces Wild. Quarter, half-dollar, and dollar are the available denominations for these games. This side of the casino has several entrances near Wynn Road. Denominations are $0.25, $0.50, and $1.

Cannery

Near parking deck entrance

Cannery is a Boyd Gaming casino in North Las Vegas. It has the same “Up to 99.8%” machines in a nonsmoking area near the parking deck.

Sam’s Town

Second floor, accessible from east parking deck

Sam’s Town offers a unique video poker game in its second-story nonsmoking area. It is Triple Deuces Wild (99.92%). This game pays 600 coins for quad deuces. It lowers the flush and full house by a coin to offset that. Players may enter this part of the casino from the parking deck to avoid all smoky parts of the casino. Boyd Gaming owns Sam’s Town.

Westgate

Near Starbucks and the hotel front desk

Westgate’s nonsmoking video poker is not as great as most casinos listed above. However, it gets bonus points for offering some games around 99% at the Velvet Bar. This is near the front desk just off the casino floor. Velvet Bar has $1, $2, and $5 9/7 Double Bonus and 9/6 Double Double Bonus. Guests may enter from the parking deck to avoid smoking areas.