The Palazzo opened in 2008 as The Venetian's newer wing, directly north of the original property and connected by a long, glass-roofed corridor through the Grand Canal Shoppes. The casino floor is materially smaller than The Venetian's, the ceilings are higher, the lighting is brighter, and the crowd skews slightly older and quieter — the property is widely considered the calmer half of the Venetian-Palazzo complex. The rule card matches the parent property to the letter; the practical experience differs on floor pace, table availability, and the social register of the room.
The published Palazzo rules
Per the verified rules database, The Palazzo main-floor full-bet ($25+) tables run the same ruleset as The Venetian:
- 6 decks from a shoe
- Dealer hits soft 17 (H17) on the main floor
- Double after split allowed (DAS)
- Late surrender NOT offered on the main floor
- Blackjack pays 3:2 on $25+ tables, 6:5 below
The two properties have shared management since The Palazzo opened in 2008, and the unified-MGM transition in 2022 did not separate the rule cards. The high-limit Lagoon Saloon-adjacent room at The Palazzo runs $100+ minimums on the same H17 baseline. Conservative assumption: H17 across both halves of the complex.
House edge and EV per hour
Main-floor $25 H17 DAS no-LS 3:2 game: house edge approximately 0.72%. At 80 hands per hour:
- $25 average bet: -$14.40 per hour, -$43.20 per 3-hour session
- $50 average bet: -$28.80 per hour, -$86.40 per 3-hour session
- $100 average bet: -$57.60 per hour, -$172.80 per 3-hour session
Identical to The Venetian to four decimal places. The rule card is the rule card.
How this stacks up vs the textbook baseline
0.22 percentage points worse than the 0.50% textbook reference, same as every other unified-MGM premium property. The differentiation between The Palazzo and The Venetian is not the per-rule edge. It is the practical pace, the seat availability, and the crowd character at the table.
Where to sit at The Palazzo
The Palazzo's casino floor is roughly two-thirds the size of The Venetian's by table count, and the layout is more linear — a long rectangular pit running parallel to the Strip-facing main entrance, with the high-limit salon at the back of the pit furthest from the entrance. The perimeter-6:5 / inner-3:2 pattern that defines The Venetian's seating geography applies here too, but the perimeter band is narrower because the floor is smaller. The first row of $15 tables at The Palazzo sits closer to the property's main escalators than to a busy walk-by entrance, which means the perimeter 6:5 traps see less pure walk-in volume than at the larger property next door.
A practical observation: open $25 3:2 seats are easier to find at The Palazzo on a Friday or Saturday night than at The Venetian. The smaller crowd and the quieter atmosphere combine to keep table wait times shorter. For working basic-strategy players who want the unified-MGM premium rule card without the convention-floor density of The Venetian, The Palazzo is the more comfortable seat, with no rule-card penalty.
The Palazzo's high-limit salon is smaller than The Venetian's Paiza Club — typically six to eight tables — and operates with a higher dealer-to-player ratio. Minimums start at $100, the ruleset is the same H17 main-floor baseline, and pace is slower (closer to 70 hands per hour). The salon's intimate scale means hosts and pit managers pay more attention per player than at the larger Paiza Club; comp interactions can be more bespoke.
Comp value at The Palazzo
Comp velocity at The Palazzo matches The Venetian on the MGM Rewards premium-tier schedule — 25%-40% return of theoretical, same tier accrual. Players holding accounts that earn at both Venetian and Palazzo accumulate to the same combined Wynn-Rewards-style cross-property credit. The two properties effectively share a comp ledger from a player perspective.
One practical advantage of playing at The Palazzo over The Venetian on the comp side: hosts at the smaller property tend to allocate offers with more attention per player because the volume base is smaller. A $100-average-bet table-game player who would be one of dozens at The Venetian's main pit can be a meaningfully larger fish in The Palazzo's pond, and the per-trip comp offers (suite upgrades, restaurant credit lines, comp evaluations) tend to track that scale difference. The published reinvestment percentages are identical; the human-discretion component is not.
The Palazzo's restaurant lineup is on par with The Venetian's — Carnevino, SushiSamba, and Sushi Roku among the comp-redemption options — and the per-cover dollar value of the dining credit lands similar to The Venetian. Suite-tier inventory at The Palazzo is also among the largest by square footage on the Strip; the property opened as an all-suite hotel and the room product remains a notable feature of the comp inventory.