The Everett casino, like many other businesses around the country, has had a hard time finding people to hire for open positions. However, we do have limited space, and the former poker area is currently occupied by some of our highest-performing slot machines.' She added, 'Throughout this difficult time, we have really tried to be agile and responsive.

We're constantly readjusting our offerings based on guest demand,' Jacqui Krum, Encore Boston Harbor's senior vice president and general counsel, said. 'To be clear, we did not say never to poker.

The casinos have both said they will make decisions about the future of poker by the end of the year. The state's two casinos - Encore Boston Harbor and MGM Springfield - resumed mostly normal operations in late May without reintroducing poker and the Gaming Commission has taken notice of the 10-fold increase in complaints about the game's absence in the Bay State. If Encore Boston Harbor was to reintroduce poker right now, as some of its guests have demanded, it would require the casino to close other table games because it cannot find enough people to hire as dealers, an executive told the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on Thursday.

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