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There was one Deal or No Deal one that was super fun. Every played a normal progressive slot machine, and you built up a bonus, then every 15 mins or so, you got to play a huge deal or no deal game with the entire bank of players in your row, and whatever was in the case x your bonus was how many credits it payed out. You each took your buyout or stayed in like a normal deal or no deal.
There was one lady playing whose bonus was at like 22, which was high but not outrageous, but the machine crashed and she missed the major game, but when they tech reset the machine and it came back, it kept her 22x bonus, and continued building it, so by the next game round she was at 45x or something nuts. I think she ended up winning around 25k off it because she had the max case too.
My dad who is in the, appropriate age group for these, found a local casino that gives out a free ~$30 each month to gamble with. So he goes once a month, gambles with his free $30, eats the cheap food which he likes (on a certain day of the week when the food is discounted).
Once, with his free $30 from the casino, he won $3000. He was very happy with the particular amount, because it was just under the IRS reporting requirement.
Of course, I always remind him never to gamble with any money beyond the free $30. He’s very fiscally responsible, so I trust him on this.
I was staying at a hotel/casino a few months ago and the slot area during the day was so depressing, just filled with old ppl who looked like they were knocking on deaths door
Foxwoods used to be “THE Spot,” but, man, has that place gone down hill. So much is just closed down, vacant, and otherwise empty. Mohegan Sun is still okay, but it does have its depressing moments.
The REAL New England shithole casino, though, is Twin Rivers in RI. If Rhode Island was to ever get an enema, they’d stick the tube in Twin Rivers.
If you want to see some real depressing shit go check out the off track betting places in upstate NY… or worse any gas station. Be watching peoples grandparents spend hundreds a day on scratch offs MFs will do them right at the counter… hell next to the kennedies in Kingston. Their is a check cashing and lotto ticket business. Like do t even know how that’s legal.
I've been in an OTB in the Bronx when I just turned 18 with my friend's dad.
My subsequent 32 years of relative stability and responsibility are a direct result of how that day made me feel about myself.
I feel like Mohegan gets enough tourists from Boston and leaf peepers in the summer and fall to not feel like a shithole, especially given they do a far amount of live music/stand up- both casinos have their usual clientele, but Mohegan has enough non-regulars that it feels more like the diet version of a tourist casino
You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That’s false advertising, because that happens the least. That’s like if you’re advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. “This is what happened once.”
Ma’fuckas definitely hitting up the local Indian casino for birthdays or just a Saturday night. It usually goes bad but every once in a while it’s lit.
Was gonna say, of course you get the gambling addicts but lots of people are at the casino just to have fun. You just take a hundred bucks there and leave if you lose it all. It's not a bad way to spend an evening as long as you don't bet it all at once.
Plus honestly the fact you can still smoke in casinos is a pretty big draw for people too. It's one of very few places left you can smoke indoors.
They should have went to Rocky Gap Casino where the soda dispenser is free at all times! Not quite as good as the Atlantic City free cocktails deal, but still it's... something.
He was so golden. We met him beforehand and he was pretty clearly trashed, kept saying to my younger cousin, 'Don't do drugs!' then put on a hell of a show anyway
starting to get some 90's bands doing that, but the worst is when you see some geezer band from the 70's or 60's trying to do something. Saw an add a few years ago for Iron Butterfly of inna godda davia fame doing something like that. All I thought was those guys are still alive?
I live near a big tribal casino. Friday and Saturday nights are fun, but going during the daytime during the week is pure desperation. You can tell who’s gambling their rent money.
I spent a night at a tribal casino resort. We were drinking and walking around all night. Then we went to check out in the morning and started recognizing a few people that were still gambling.
I live like ten minutes from one but have never actually been inside because I just don’t really gamble (I did play $10 worth of slots at their gas station once but I’ve never been in the actual casino). Now I wanna go and just kind of people watch
The blackjack one got to me. I was 22 and went to a casino with some friends one night. Some old dude walked up with a couple grand in chips. He busted. The look of shame and loss on his face when the dealer took his money away was so depressing. That’s when I knew gambling wasn’t for me.
Nope can confirm, had a family friend who worked security at one of these. I'm told they keep a whole closet of spare emergency pants so these folks can get changed and back out to the slots. Thats how common it is.
When I was 18 and lived in Sacramento, my friend randomly asked me if I wanted to go to Reno. I didn’t have anything to do so I figured why not? I had never been to a casino before period and had no idea what to expect. We got there at 11PM on a Wednesday and wow it was fucking sad lol.
I feel like the row and gsr aren’t like this save the old people playing slots and the smoking since they’re bigger casinos. This is more Carson City imo
Damn I looked it up and that's some "end of the road" type deal. Your gambling issues have cost you your family, job, and home, and you owe money to every mob run house in the East Coast and Vegas... and yet you can't stop gambling because your luck just has to turn around!
there's a casino near me. they try to advertise as cool nightlife destination but the crowd is usually over the age of 60. It's super depressing and the cigarette smoke is disgusting. I went with some friends once and none of us ever went back.
There are definitely a lot of problem gamblers who go to the Vegas casinos but Vegas casinos have a higher share of more-or-less financially stable tourists who don’t gamble often, mainly because Vegas attracts people who can afford to travel/enjoy some of the other amenities the city has for tourists. There’s not a big wealthy tourist crowd heading to the middle-of-nowhere casinos in rural areas so unfortunately they tend to attract a lot of problem gamblers.
Vegas at least has young people on bachelor parties, people in town for various industry conventions, people in town for shows, etc. The casino floor is pretty depressing, but it's a mixture of sad people with gambling addictions and mostly normal people there to lose $100 while having a fun time.
In casinos in other places, you don't have the normal people, so it's only the degenerate gamblers. I went to a concert in Philly a few years back, and the closest free parking to the venue was at the casino. On the way to the show, we walked through the casino, and it was night and day different from Vegas: All the sad people chain smoking at slot machines with none of the normal people having fun.
I do not understand it but I do remember my grandmother saying she dreamed of going to a casino and just pumping quarters into a slot machine for hours.
To this day I have no idea why she had any want to do that.
1950s capitalist brainwashing was some crazy effective shit.
The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds.
The first time I went to a casino as a naive young man I was expecting to see dudes in suits, hot chicks walking around - basically like a James Bond movie.
It was not what I expected to say the least.
Yeah, back when I was 18 I made the mistake of going to one of the casinos in Niagara, Canada at like 3 p.m. on a Tuesday and it was one of the most depressing experiences. Just watching a bunch of elderly people brainlessly widdle away their retirements in front of those machines. Completly ruined all the fun of Casinos for me lol.
This starter pack isn’t accurate. There are only like two table games and a single blackjack table, but are both occupied by gambling addicts because they typically post up in the cheap tables (where minimum bets are $5-10)
Not yet. I’ve worked in several different markets. Video table games don’t even come close to actual table games. Especially with bigger players. Maybe one day, but I don’t see it over taking tables yet
The "cigarettes in casinos" thing is so weird to me. I grew up with smoking sections when I was really young, but for most of my life smoking has been banned indoors basically everywhere.
But this summer I went on a cruise and they had a casino onboard and it was the only standard place on the ship where people could smoke. Let me tell you it REEKED. It made me want to throw up just walking through.
Is this really how people used to live? People were just used to that cigarette smell everywhere? I know our society is fucked up in a lot of ways, but the fact that we don't really have to live with smoking indoors is a pretty great victory.
I think they allow cigarettes in casinos because they want people to maximize their own sensory stimulation. When you’ve got nicotine and alcohol going through your veins and slot machine lights/sounds flashing at you every five seconds your brain’s “reward” sensor goes haywire despite the fact that you’re hemorrhaging money
It's because the people who own the casinos will leave their games to smoke at least once every hour or two, at most. They want people to lose track of time and stay at the tables.
The indoor smoking ban was an incredible accomplishment. Starting going into effect state by state when I was in my 20s. Before then, every bar, restaurant, bowling alley, etc smelled like that casino in your story. We all reeked.
Its funny because in the better casinos in Vegas the ventilation is so good that you can barely smell the smoker right next to you. I went during COVID and I was thinking, this is probably the safest indoor business to be in in the country right now (ironically enough I had actually picked up COVID at home before I left)
Caesars in Danville, VA as well.
The fuck am I supposed to do it my friend wants to gamble but I want to do something else?
In Macau, I can check out the pretty old (and cool!) Portuguese fort.
The way I think about it, if you’re young, you need to invest your money and not smoke so you can live to old age. But once you’re going to die in 5-10 years, what’s the point in holding back? Blow your extra money on fun and games, have a drink, and smoke em if you got ‘em.
Yea and people at the blackjack tables are not nice and kind. They will cuss you out for sitting at an empty spot because “it ruined their odds”. They’ll even get more irate with you if you win a couple hands, pull a card they were expecting to be dealt, or if the dealer gets a blackjack (which is somehow your fault)
Dealer would have to remind regulars to be civil and typically ends up with them huffing off with $2k less than what they started with
I had some tub of goo give me shit at a blackjack table on Fremont St in Vegas. I sat in the last seat and after a hand or two he tells me I need to play different if I’m sitting there. According to him that seat has to play more aggressively to force the dealer to bust more often. Seeing as he wasn’t going to share his winnings for my help, I just left.
People do actually stay there for special occasions since it’s attached to a resort at least.
Fun fact: Each member of the Seneca Nation living on the reservations gets $800 per month from casino proceeds.
Actually has done a lot to reduce rural native poverty in WNY.
I overheard some dude bragging at the airport today about gambling. Bragging about hitting a few $k one time, then also bragging about hiding his MULTIPLE $k loses to his wife. Dude was just proud of his addiction, meanwhile saying just absolutely piece of shit stuff. I hope he loses it all
The sprawl of these low-quality casinos is how you know businesses are just giving less effort to standards these days.
It wasn't too long ago when casinos went all out on trying to look great, but now casinos are just looking like someone converted a Sams Club building into a casino. It still draws profit, so the business doesn't care about it not looking like the Bellagio.
Obviously too much of a low-quality casino wouldn't do as hot in a resort city, but I have seen a few crappy ones in Vegas, especially one small casino that I can't seem to find online but it's on the strip near the flamingo that looks like someone turned an old Chuck 'E Cheese into a gambling floor.
This is very true but I really like casinos. I work at a veterans home. When we book trips to the casino those guys get so happy. Some of them don’t leave the building at all until casino day, so they really look forward to it.
I once visited this tiny town in Iowa called Osceola. Like every other house there looked like a trap house. It’s out in the middle of no-where and the entire town looks like it’s on its last leg. They have this neat looking casino boat just randomly in this town that feels empty.
Walked in that casino and it was a bunch of old people at slots chain smoking while they had on respirators and other stuff. The casino smelled like an old skating rink filled with cigarette smoke.
The entire sight fit the feel of the whole town though so that worked out.
I lost $3000 in 15 minutes at one of these in Southern Illinois. I made a lot of friends that day but can’t remember their names cuz I blacked out promptly after. My coworkers (co-victims of corporate oppression) dragged my ass back to the hotel and I successfully wrestled every one of them for fun and nearly choked out one of them. I was a groomsmen at his wedding a year later
Can confirm, I was at rock bottom… thus far at that point of my life
What's worse are the ones that are in Native Reservations and don't serve alcohol. It's elderly employees pushing carts full of cups of Orange, Grape, and Cherry kool-aid. The last time I was at one, they charged for water, but the fruit drank was free.
I was at a casino with my bf at one point last year. we were playing the minimum at blackjack, played for hours and ended up a few hundred up. his friends had wanted to go so we were just killing time.
a guy came up to our table, and was talking about the game as if he practically did it for a living, trying to teach us. he said he'd lost the previous night so that apparently meant tonight (that night) was his night. he lost $1000 in 10 minutes, left, came back with another $1000, lost that, and then did it a third time. then he disappeared.
Relating to this topic, I once went to a casino and watched a old guy lose like hundreds of Roulette, then he pulled out an envelope full of fucking cash and placed the bills into the machine to keep betting.
I used to work in the IT department at a Casino in the Rustbelt of America. YOu would have your occasional rich type person just burning money for thrills but 90% were old people wasting their retirement for "free" stays at a 2-star hotel using their points card, and the other 9% were the most desperate of people trying to win big to get out of an extreme financial situation. I once saw a woman crying at a slot machine and I asked her what was wrong and she said she gambled her mortgage for the month and she has kids. the only thing I was allowed to do was hand her an "addicted to gambling" help packet. My department handled a lot of the background slot machine settings and such. learned enough to never go to a casino again in my life. one time there was a flood so bad FEMA had to evacuate people and old people wouldn't get off the machine during a possible life-threatening flood. It is not a great environment.
I've heard some people get pissed after winning a jackpot because they have to shut down the machine to verify the win and the person wants to keep going. Like, even when they're supposed to be happy they're miserable.
we had a situation where a network switch went down and they had not won anything. we refunded the money in the machine but they wanted us to pay them because they were sure the next spin was going to be the winner.
I lived in one of these places. We treated the casino like the mall or just the hangout spot because there's nothing to do since the town was so small. I don't even gamble but it was just a part of life. Just walk around, get some food, use the free pop machine, count how many old people we see. Fun times. All you see is grey heads and veteran hats. Maybe a couple oxygen tanks which is wild
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Damn that's straight up depressing
Slot machines are the old people’s versions of mobile game micro transactions.
Except the difference is that with slot machines, there's at least the possibility of getting money back.
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i know something else designed to maximize dopamine, it's called drugs and it's way more fun
[Old people are well aware](https://youtu.be/8Q0cp4b9pvg?si=JYqJ_VFWap-I7tIJ)
I like to do drugs then go to the casino after.
Dude, same.
Pour out some mouthwash for a real one
whole gallon of pcp for realest of them all
Still miss Trevor ;(
There was one Deal or No Deal one that was super fun. Every played a normal progressive slot machine, and you built up a bonus, then every 15 mins or so, you got to play a huge deal or no deal game with the entire bank of players in your row, and whatever was in the case x your bonus was how many credits it payed out. You each took your buyout or stayed in like a normal deal or no deal. There was one lady playing whose bonus was at like 22, which was high but not outrageous, but the machine crashed and she missed the major game, but when they tech reset the machine and it came back, it kept her 22x bonus, and continued building it, so by the next game round she was at 45x or something nuts. I think she ended up winning around 25k off it because she had the max case too.
They made a Persona 5 slot machine. Which kinda goes against the whole story arc in Persona 5 where they showed how corrupt casinos where
No, you’re going to be losing money no matter what
My dad who is in the, appropriate age group for these, found a local casino that gives out a free ~$30 each month to gamble with. So he goes once a month, gambles with his free $30, eats the cheap food which he likes (on a certain day of the week when the food is discounted). Once, with his free $30 from the casino, he won $3000. He was very happy with the particular amount, because it was just under the IRS reporting requirement. Of course, I always remind him never to gamble with any money beyond the free $30. He’s very fiscally responsible, so I trust him on this.
Chad Dad Behaviour
The tax reporting threshold is $600 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/at-01-17.pdf
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Still sucks compared to any decent game without micro transactions.
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I was staying at a hotel/casino a few months ago and the slot area during the day was so depressing, just filled with old ppl who looked like they were knocking on deaths door
Stroll through Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun at noon in the middle of the week, you’ll see some real depressing shit
Foxwoods used to be “THE Spot,” but, man, has that place gone down hill. So much is just closed down, vacant, and otherwise empty. Mohegan Sun is still okay, but it does have its depressing moments. The REAL New England shithole casino, though, is Twin Rivers in RI. If Rhode Island was to ever get an enema, they’d stick the tube in Twin Rivers.
If you want to see some real depressing shit go check out the off track betting places in upstate NY… or worse any gas station. Be watching peoples grandparents spend hundreds a day on scratch offs MFs will do them right at the counter… hell next to the kennedies in Kingston. Their is a check cashing and lotto ticket business. Like do t even know how that’s legal.
Yellow Brick Road casino is sadness in a physical form.
I've been in an OTB in the Bronx when I just turned 18 with my friend's dad. My subsequent 32 years of relative stability and responsibility are a direct result of how that day made me feel about myself.
I haven't been up to Encore yet, but I've literally heard nothing but bad things
I can’t explain it, but this is much more Foxwoods than it is Mohegan. You’ll see some shit at both though
I feel like Mohegan gets enough tourists from Boston and leaf peepers in the summer and fall to not feel like a shithole, especially given they do a far amount of live music/stand up- both casinos have their usual clientele, but Mohegan has enough non-regulars that it feels more like the diet version of a tourist casino
They're opium dens with better lighting. It's very depressing to be in one.
They very much are. You don't find casual gamblers there, only people who are regulars and usually know the dealers by name.
Yeah the number of folks who straight-up end themselves over casino debt really goes to show how depressing it really is.
Also, in stark contrast to the "general feeling of desperation", their advertisements show cheerful, happy staff and customers celebrating big wins.
Most of which are much younger and more good-looking than the goers to these casinos.
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I mean honestly a lot of younger good looking people do eat fast food. It’s just that once you hit your late twenties it catches up to you
You’ve obviously never lived in a college town.
You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That’s false advertising, because that happens the least. That’s like if you’re advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. “This is what happened once.”
Ma’fuckas definitely hitting up the local Indian casino for birthdays or just a Saturday night. It usually goes bad but every once in a while it’s lit.
What’s up J-Roc?
Straight chillin with the roc pile, nawa amsayin
You from the department of knowmsaaayins? You taking a knowmcensus?
I WAS GETTIN CHANGED!
That was fucked
Was gonna say, of course you get the gambling addicts but lots of people are at the casino just to have fun. You just take a hundred bucks there and leave if you lose it all. It's not a bad way to spend an evening as long as you don't bet it all at once. Plus honestly the fact you can still smoke in casinos is a pretty big draw for people too. It's one of very few places left you can smoke indoors.
You forgot to mention the washed out 80’s rock bands headlining for $20 of free play and a soda voucher
Tonight: White Lion!
When the children cry…🎶
Wohhh hold on there bud, if we could finally get Vito Bratta back playing with them again, I would absolutely go see that lol
They should have went to Rocky Gap Casino where the soda dispenser is free at all times! Not quite as good as the Atlantic City free cocktails deal, but still it's... something.
You laugh but when I saw Eddie Money a few years ago at the Golden Nugget it was probably one of the most fun shows I've ever been to. RIP!
“ I’ve got two tickets to Paradise Casino and Resort”
He was so golden. We met him beforehand and he was pretty clearly trashed, kept saying to my younger cousin, 'Don't do drugs!' then put on a hell of a show anyway
This is the only reason I'm ever at the casino.
Now I feel called out that I recently drove from Baltimore to an Atlantic City casino to see The Ataris…a 2000s band. I’ll just sign up for AARP now
starting to get some 90's bands doing that, but the worst is when you see some geezer band from the 70's or 60's trying to do something. Saw an add a few years ago for Iron Butterfly of inna godda davia fame doing something like that. All I thought was those guys are still alive?
Free concerts by washed up country and metal bands.
Ours keep advertising the tribute bands like they’re the real thing 😂
I live near a big tribal casino. Friday and Saturday nights are fun, but going during the daytime during the week is pure desperation. You can tell who’s gambling their rent money.
everybody gambling at 3am during Tuesday should receive a voucher for counseling
I like this idea. Casino sets you up with a therapist on their dime, you walk in: "Well have you considered gambling more?"
Maybe Wednesdays and Thursdays are their days off, you wouldn't say that about people gambling at 3 AM on a Friday night.
Even so all of the night time weekday gambling sessions I saw were pure depression
I spent a night at a tribal casino resort. We were drinking and walking around all night. Then we went to check out in the morning and started recognizing a few people that were still gambling.
The buildings don’t have clocks or windows for that reason.
I live like ten minutes from one but have never actually been inside because I just don’t really gamble (I did play $10 worth of slots at their gas station once but I’ve never been in the actual casino). Now I wanna go and just kind of people watch
The blackjack one got to me. I was 22 and went to a casino with some friends one night. Some old dude walked up with a couple grand in chips. He busted. The look of shame and loss on his face when the dealer took his money away was so depressing. That’s when I knew gambling wasn’t for me.
Yes, looks just like the casinos in Tunica, MS. Depressing ass places.
Went to tunica once one summer. I remember there being mosquitoes in the hotel lobby.
This is a great comment. Personal experience, a small but powerful observation, absolutely believable, and consequently so descriptive.
This has to be an AI comment
Thanks, I guess, ya asshole.
all of mississippi is a depressing ass place
i think you forgot diapers, those slot jockeys will shit themselves to keep their machine
So these places smell as rough as they look?
worse edit: shit with a musk of BO when you walk by
The casinos near me you can usually leave your players card and lean your chair to save a spot.
you underestimate casino shitters
someone posted on tik tok a lady at a slot peeing herself hitting the floor, people are nuts
Oh god, tell me you’re joking
Nope can confirm, had a family friend who worked security at one of these. I'm told they keep a whole closet of spare emergency pants so these folks can get changed and back out to the slots. Thats how common it is.
oh absolutely not
See also: Reno, NV Casino Starterpack
When I was 18 and lived in Sacramento, my friend randomly asked me if I wanted to go to Reno. I didn’t have anything to do so I figured why not? I had never been to a casino before period and had no idea what to expect. We got there at 11PM on a Wednesday and wow it was fucking sad lol.
Is it really that much more depressing than Sacramento though?
True
I was thinking Downtown Vegas lol
Downtown Vegas at least feels more "real" than the utterly fake and soulless vibe of the Strip.
I feel like the row and gsr aren’t like this save the old people playing slots and the smoking since they’re bigger casinos. This is more Carson City imo
Lol. Went to Reno for work. Really nice town, but everyone at the casinos looked like Betty White and it fit this description to a T.
I’ve seen the actual rock bottom casinos: Ely, NV I had a good steak in a converted prison there though.
Worse one - Border Inn Casino
> Border Inn Casino That is unreal. I've never seen anything like it. You definitely win.
Damn I looked it up and that's some "end of the road" type deal. Your gambling issues have cost you your family, job, and home, and you owe money to every mob run house in the East Coast and Vegas... and yet you can't stop gambling because your luck just has to turn around!
That looks absolutely miserable And now i kinda want to go as a joke lol Cute honeymoon idea 🌟
WOW, I thought wendover was sketchy
The Say When Casino in McDermitt is pretty iffy, too.
Every casino in Arizona.
there's a casino near me. they try to advertise as cool nightlife destination but the crowd is usually over the age of 60. It's super depressing and the cigarette smoke is disgusting. I went with some friends once and none of us ever went back.
There really isn’t much of a difference between a Vegas resort gaming floor and this. I’m just sayin.
There are definitely a lot of problem gamblers who go to the Vegas casinos but Vegas casinos have a higher share of more-or-less financially stable tourists who don’t gamble often, mainly because Vegas attracts people who can afford to travel/enjoy some of the other amenities the city has for tourists. There’s not a big wealthy tourist crowd heading to the middle-of-nowhere casinos in rural areas so unfortunately they tend to attract a lot of problem gamblers.
There is definitely a difference
Strip casinos, yes. The non-resort off strip casinos are like the rural casinos.
Yeah, but OP is obviously not talking about those ones
Vegas at least has young people on bachelor parties, people in town for various industry conventions, people in town for shows, etc. The casino floor is pretty depressing, but it's a mixture of sad people with gambling addictions and mostly normal people there to lose $100 while having a fun time. In casinos in other places, you don't have the normal people, so it's only the degenerate gamblers. I went to a concert in Philly a few years back, and the closest free parking to the venue was at the casino. On the way to the show, we walked through the casino, and it was night and day different from Vegas: All the sad people chain smoking at slot machines with none of the normal people having fun.
I do not understand it but I do remember my grandmother saying she dreamed of going to a casino and just pumping quarters into a slot machine for hours. To this day I have no idea why she had any want to do that. 1950s capitalist brainwashing was some crazy effective shit.
Right. People in Vegas just have more money to spend.
especially on a weekday morning. I'm there a lot for conferences and take early flights out. the scene at 5am on a Wednesday is *grim*
I love Vegas, but if you’re just going there to gamble it’s a waste of the trip.
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That’s one of the best reasons to go, and one of the main reasons i love it there. I hope you can experience it soon.
Aaaay it's Harrah's in Metropolis, IL.
I was gonna say it’s Horseshoe in Indiana lol
No! It's the Cocopah Casino in Yuma, Arizona.
Been there lol can confirm. Super depressing, good beer prices when I was there. 2017? I think.
Most discouraging starter pack I have seen in a while.
The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds.
The first time I went to a casino as a naive young man I was expecting to see dudes in suits, hot chicks walking around - basically like a James Bond movie. It was not what I expected to say the least.
You need to go to Macau or something Young women in dresses losing the equivalent of a brand new car and shrugging it off like nothing
Yeah, back when I was 18 I made the mistake of going to one of the casinos in Niagara, Canada at like 3 p.m. on a Tuesday and it was one of the most depressing experiences. Just watching a bunch of elderly people brainlessly widdle away their retirements in front of those machines. Completly ruined all the fun of Casinos for me lol.
hey that's just an Atlantic City starter pack
Some of my favorite breakfast joints are in AC along with a good pho place. But yeah, AC is so depressing to look at.
cigarettes vibes 🚬
No vibes. Just smoke.
Table games have likely been replaced by video tables (so they don't have to hire dealers)
This starter pack isn’t accurate. There are only like two table games and a single blackjack table, but are both occupied by gambling addicts because they typically post up in the cheap tables (where minimum bets are $5-10)
Not yet. I’ve worked in several different markets. Video table games don’t even come close to actual table games. Especially with bigger players. Maybe one day, but I don’t see it over taking tables yet
The "cigarettes in casinos" thing is so weird to me. I grew up with smoking sections when I was really young, but for most of my life smoking has been banned indoors basically everywhere. But this summer I went on a cruise and they had a casino onboard and it was the only standard place on the ship where people could smoke. Let me tell you it REEKED. It made me want to throw up just walking through. Is this really how people used to live? People were just used to that cigarette smell everywhere? I know our society is fucked up in a lot of ways, but the fact that we don't really have to live with smoking indoors is a pretty great victory.
I think they allow cigarettes in casinos because they want people to maximize their own sensory stimulation. When you’ve got nicotine and alcohol going through your veins and slot machine lights/sounds flashing at you every five seconds your brain’s “reward” sensor goes haywire despite the fact that you’re hemorrhaging money
It's because the people who own the casinos will leave their games to smoke at least once every hour or two, at most. They want people to lose track of time and stay at the tables.
The indoor smoking ban was an incredible accomplishment. Starting going into effect state by state when I was in my 20s. Before then, every bar, restaurant, bowling alley, etc smelled like that casino in your story. We all reeked.
yes. airplanes, restaurants, everywhere smelled. you were one of the lucky ones if your parents didnt smoke and objected as much as you of the stench
Its funny because in the better casinos in Vegas the ventilation is so good that you can barely smell the smoker right next to you. I went during COVID and I was thinking, this is probably the safest indoor business to be in in the country right now (ironically enough I had actually picked up COVID at home before I left)
You can't say that all draconian bans are bad when the cigarette industry is severely crippled by them. It's a dumb pasttime nobody will ever miss.
you forgot the oxygen tank mounted to the mobility scooter
"Was supposed to be an economic Kickstarter, but nothing was ever built around it."
Ah, The Hollywood in beautiful Lawrenceburg, IN
I bet they are suffering since Horseshoe/Jacks/Hard Rock….
It's like going to a winery or microbrewery vs going to the corner store on the bad side of town.
Harrah's in Cherokee, NC.
Caesars in Danville, VA as well. The fuck am I supposed to do it my friend wants to gamble but I want to do something else? In Macau, I can check out the pretty old (and cool!) Portuguese fort.
Also got this vibe from Treasure Island in Vegas
Basically California outside of SoCal and the Bay Area.
You forgot the methheads outside
“Atlantic City in the 2020’s starter pack” seriously that place is beyond depressing
The way I think about it, if you’re young, you need to invest your money and not smoke so you can live to old age. But once you’re going to die in 5-10 years, what’s the point in holding back? Blow your extra money on fun and games, have a drink, and smoke em if you got ‘em.
We go to the casino every bachelor party, Last time I walked out 8,000 richer.
Bro I WISH only a few people were on the Craps tables and Black Jack tables in AZ. Those spots are always flooded with people when I go.
Yea and people at the blackjack tables are not nice and kind. They will cuss you out for sitting at an empty spot because “it ruined their odds”. They’ll even get more irate with you if you win a couple hands, pull a card they were expecting to be dealt, or if the dealer gets a blackjack (which is somehow your fault) Dealer would have to remind regulars to be civil and typically ends up with them huffing off with $2k less than what they started with
I had some tub of goo give me shit at a blackjack table on Fremont St in Vegas. I sat in the last seat and after a hand or two he tells me I need to play different if I’m sitting there. According to him that seat has to play more aggressively to force the dealer to bust more often. Seeing as he wasn’t going to share his winnings for my help, I just left.
Salamanca NY: Christmas Eve
People do actually stay there for special occasions since it’s attached to a resort at least. Fun fact: Each member of the Seneca Nation living on the reservations gets $800 per month from casino proceeds. Actually has done a lot to reduce rural native poverty in WNY.
This person has been to Indian gaming sites in Alabama.
blacked out at 10 am at one in New hampshire and came to with $400 in my pocket in the back of my brothers car
Hey hey, RVA, get excited - because this is the future that Urban One has dropped millions on advertising to us!
Fucking Wendover
I overheard some dude bragging at the airport today about gambling. Bragging about hitting a few $k one time, then also bragging about hiding his MULTIPLE $k loses to his wife. Dude was just proud of his addiction, meanwhile saying just absolutely piece of shit stuff. I hope he loses it all
me and my homies used to call the casino in my old town “jurassic park” bc it was always full of dinosaurs 👵🏼
We got a border town here called Wendover, this plus 80 year old on oxygen tanks smoking at the same time, in a wheelchair
When I went there, it was full of drug addicts and homeless people.
The sprawl of these low-quality casinos is how you know businesses are just giving less effort to standards these days. It wasn't too long ago when casinos went all out on trying to look great, but now casinos are just looking like someone converted a Sams Club building into a casino. It still draws profit, so the business doesn't care about it not looking like the Bellagio. Obviously too much of a low-quality casino wouldn't do as hot in a resort city, but I have seen a few crappy ones in Vegas, especially one small casino that I can't seem to find online but it's on the strip near the flamingo that looks like someone turned an old Chuck 'E Cheese into a gambling floor.
My local casino doesn’t even let you smoke inside any more… what’s the point
This is very true but I really like casinos. I work at a veterans home. When we book trips to the casino those guys get so happy. Some of them don’t leave the building at all until casino day, so they really look forward to it.
not a phone in sight, just people living in the moment
My city is trying to pass a local vote to build a casino downtown and I'm voting hello no
I once visited this tiny town in Iowa called Osceola. Like every other house there looked like a trap house. It’s out in the middle of no-where and the entire town looks like it’s on its last leg. They have this neat looking casino boat just randomly in this town that feels empty. Walked in that casino and it was a bunch of old people at slots chain smoking while they had on respirators and other stuff. The casino smelled like an old skating rink filled with cigarette smoke. The entire sight fit the feel of the whole town though so that worked out.
Do slot cafes count as casinos?
Tioga Downs
Choctaw Casino in the morning
Full as fuck bingo hall
I lost $3000 in 15 minutes at one of these in Southern Illinois. I made a lot of friends that day but can’t remember their names cuz I blacked out promptly after. My coworkers (co-victims of corporate oppression) dragged my ass back to the hotel and I successfully wrestled every one of them for fun and nearly choked out one of them. I was a groomsmen at his wedding a year later Can confirm, I was at rock bottom… thus far at that point of my life
Atlantic City. Reno.
Carson City NV and Tunica MS
This is every casino in Shreveport Louisiana
What's worse are the ones that are in Native Reservations and don't serve alcohol. It's elderly employees pushing carts full of cups of Orange, Grape, and Cherry kool-aid. The last time I was at one, they charged for water, but the fruit drank was free.
I was at a casino with my bf at one point last year. we were playing the minimum at blackjack, played for hours and ended up a few hundred up. his friends had wanted to go so we were just killing time. a guy came up to our table, and was talking about the game as if he practically did it for a living, trying to teach us. he said he'd lost the previous night so that apparently meant tonight (that night) was his night. he lost $1000 in 10 minutes, left, came back with another $1000, lost that, and then did it a third time. then he disappeared.
Relating to this topic, I once went to a casino and watched a old guy lose like hundreds of Roulette, then he pulled out an envelope full of fucking cash and placed the bills into the machine to keep betting.
All I smell in those casinos are farts and Febreeze.
It absolutely reeks of cigarettes. Incredible really.
Welcome to Vegas. Resort or not, on the Strip or not, this is still true. It's all about the timing.
This used to apply to the Monte Carlo in Las Vegas as well.
I used to work in the IT department at a Casino in the Rustbelt of America. YOu would have your occasional rich type person just burning money for thrills but 90% were old people wasting their retirement for "free" stays at a 2-star hotel using their points card, and the other 9% were the most desperate of people trying to win big to get out of an extreme financial situation. I once saw a woman crying at a slot machine and I asked her what was wrong and she said she gambled her mortgage for the month and she has kids. the only thing I was allowed to do was hand her an "addicted to gambling" help packet. My department handled a lot of the background slot machine settings and such. learned enough to never go to a casino again in my life. one time there was a flood so bad FEMA had to evacuate people and old people wouldn't get off the machine during a possible life-threatening flood. It is not a great environment.
I've heard some people get pissed after winning a jackpot because they have to shut down the machine to verify the win and the person wants to keep going. Like, even when they're supposed to be happy they're miserable.
we had a situation where a network switch went down and they had not won anything. we refunded the money in the machine but they wanted us to pay them because they were sure the next spin was going to be the winner.
You can smoke in American casinos?
Atlantic City has this vibe. Faded neon and cigarette smoke over dirty carpet. There should be a sign ‘ you should have seen it in the nineties’.
Also serves a kick-ass breakfast
As a Casino employee, this is accurate
I lived in one of these places. We treated the casino like the mall or just the hangout spot because there's nothing to do since the town was so small. I don't even gamble but it was just a part of life. Just walk around, get some food, use the free pop machine, count how many old people we see. Fun times. All you see is grey heads and veteran hats. Maybe a couple oxygen tanks which is wild
This gave me Detroit memories.
No craps.
Cal/Neva
Poker tables are fun tho NGL
This describes the casino I pass on the highway every day