Favorite destinations to gamble

I concur that AC is unique having the beach / ocean right in front of your casino.

Three other cool properties I have had a good time at:

Harrahs New Orleans - Walking distance to Bourbon Street

Harrahs Cherokee - In the Smoky Moutains; huge property with a great concert venue.

Harrahs Southern Cali - Near San Diego and a cool drive up to Palomar Observatory.

I am not a gambler. The last time I went was over 20 years ago. My son and I drove from our home in suburban Atlanta to Tunica MS, 30 miles south of Memphis. 6 or 8 casinos on the river. No shows but a lot of free and cheap meals. We spent 3 days there and 3 nights at the infamous Platinum Plus in Memphis. Left a lot of money in both places.

That should be computer game at some casino in *Phoenix

If I wanted to gamble, then the easiest for me would be Foxwoods or Mohegan Sun in CT. But I'm not a gambler. So, I'd probably hit Vegas to do other things and dabble in gambling.

I’m not much of a gambler but I went to Chinook Winds casino resort for a weekend trip once and it was right off the Oregon coastline in Lincoln City.

There was really good hiking spots nearby the town too, which was my favorite part. Oregon is awesome. And the seafood bucket that the hotel restaurant was amazing and one of the best meals I remember. (Though disclaimer, I had eaten a candy from the dispensary before having dinner, so that could be possibly clouding things)

I mostly stuck with slot machines. I kinda wonder if there was a point I should have laid off the edibles so that I would have had enough confidence to do their scheduled bingo games without being too zoned out. Oh well.

My main criticism with them is that they could maybe update the interior style in their hotel rooms, but they can get away with the beach being right there and people overlooking that.

Since the casino opened, I wonder if the place on the Cherokee Lands where you could play tic tac toe with a chicken is still open.

Real gambling is doing OTC when her baby daddy owns at least one unregistered Uzi. Gambling money is for basic bitches once you're gambling with your life.

Poker night with guys I know. At least if I lose I’m giving it to someone who can use the funds, not some faceless organization who won’t give me flowers at my funeral. If I win too much and feel bad about It, I am sure I will give it back to them next time we play.

I’ve only gone to the Atlantic City casinos four times in my life, and since I don’t know any card games - or any other casino type games - it wasn’t the best time for me.

Luckily one of those four times was for a bachelor party. Going off the boardwalk, where most casinos were located, things go downhill quickly. Some folks aren’t comfortable with the drop off, but it worked quite well for a bachelor party.

Aside from AC, I’ve only played football pools and March madness pools.

My friends basement. Its quarter raise limit on Texas Hold 'em. . And I can pretty much bluff all my friends into thinking I know what I"m doing.

AC is dead. Don’t waste your time.

When I gamble I’m at the sportsbook or poker, nothing else other than an occasional trip to the blackjack table although it’s rare.

When I play poker I want to play against weak poker players. There’s always good poker players everywhere but there’s a lot in Vegas. The lower the stakes at the poker tables or tournaments the shittier the players so that’s one thing to think about when playing in Vegas.

Really if you’re gambling does it matter where it’s at as long as you’re winning?

So back to poker some of my favorite places to play are:

Detroit charity poker rooms (lots have closed down since the pandemic)

Random Midwest/Rust Belt small casinos (Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Buffalo, Pittsburgh)

Some small casinos in California

Vegas

I like all the casinos in Baltimore but competition is tough in the poker rooms.

Montreal poker rooms are cool too but again lots of good players.

When the Hard Rock Casino and Hotel opened here in South Florida it was a great place but they’ve gotten so cheap they nickel and dime everything the fun isn’t there any more

I’m not a big gambler either. But I’ve been to Las Vegas three times. Not to gamble much, but for the shows, strip clubs, and other touristy things. One trip was just to go the Grand Canyon.

I’ve taken strippers to both Soaring Eagle north of Lansing in Mt Pleasant and to Firekeepers in Battle Creek. I find it boring but they wanted to go

I used to go to Vegas once / month about 15 years ago. I got my ass kicked every time. I remember the worst weekend started off at either a $25 or $50/hand blackjack table. I lost the first 12 hands in a row...and I'm pulling 19s and 20s every time. Bitch kept getting 20s and 21s. That weekend I ended up accidentally spilling drinks down the shirt of a Playboy playmate who was at the club after signing autographs earlier. I was turning to get through the crowd, got bumped, and next thing I know Jack and Coke is slowly sliding between her store-bought boobs. Her bodyguards weren't thrilled with me but wasn't my fault!

The other trips usually averaged $3k-$4k (life's great when you make more money at 24 than 40...). I remember sitting at a poker table during March madness. I bet on Montana to beat Nevada just to troll Vegas. Just as that game ended and Montana won, I was small blind and got 2S, 3S. Nobody raised so I was in. Flopped a straight. Turned a straight flush. Nobody had a clue...they were re-raising each other after they hit the straight, flush, and full house they were chasing. I just kept calling the raises. When the dealer mouthed "holy shit" as I turned my cards, dude with the boat got pissed and asked why the hell I played 2, 3. "Because I was blind and you didn't raise me out of it." -- That was a few hundred...that I would lose at blackjack tables an hour later.

Now?? Gambling is best on my couch. Got my booze, my three TVs in the living room, my pen, and my trusty notebook to keep track of all the games. I love it. The single moms of Phoenix, not so much. Almost never go to strip clubs anymore.

For me, its still best in Vegas. (I feel like I have to rep the screen name). People make an effort to go to Vegas. The people watching is great. There are actual whales on the craps tables. Its fun outside the casino with shows and dining. The day trips to casinos nearby have never been very fun for me.

The coolest casino I have been to was in Monaco. We dressed up in black tie attire and had to show our passports and pay an admittance fee of like 15 euro to go in. Very James Bond feel to it. By the way, once I changed my dollars to euros, they refused to change them back without a significant fee. A total rip off and tourist trap, but elegant just the same.

I've heard there's some good poker in Texas.

I go to Vegas numerous times a year for work. Even though I'm not a big gambler, I'm also not a big fan of sitting in my room so I gamble a little bit at the bar with video poker and watch sports on TV before grabbing dinner. Usually gamble for an hour and go eat. I don't win a lot but don't lose a lot either. Once hit a royal flush at the Tropicana.

My first trip to Vegas has a strip club story. I drove to Vegas with my buddy from his place in the desert east of LA. We were both 21 on our first trip to Vegas. We both hit the blackjack table and lost $100 in about 10 minutes. We said fuck this and found ourselves at the Crazy Horse in the early afternoon. We proceeded to drink beer for at least 8 hours and even went through a sh8ft change. We had fun tipping at the stage but VIP wasn't in our range if they even had that back in the early 80's.

When I caught my buddy watering the plant by the bathroom with the last beer I bought him, we figured it was time to go find a room. Only problem was there were no rooms available on 4th of July weekend. We started driving back to his place, a 3 or 4 hour drive away. We didn't make the best decisions regarding the gas tank and slept in the car on the interstate in a place called Yermo. We have a story for our first Vegas run anyway.

Labor Day weekend. My first trip to Vegas I whet to sapphires, and woke up in a shitty hotel room at the Palace Station with a stripper. The next day I was at a pool party at the Palms (back then the Palms was cool) and hooked up with some chick who was from Turkey, going to college in LA. Woke up in her hotel room the next day and still have both of my kidneys!

I’ve been to Vegas over 30 times since then and no trip was nearly as good as that one.

For those of us old enough to remember, Vegas in the ‘80’s, when it was less corporate and still had kind of a wild west “anything goes” feel, with super cheap rooms and free buffets. These days, I spend more time in the sports book. For me, there is nothing better than the Bellagio sports book in October, when you have NFL and college football, MLB playoffs, and NBA and NHL just getting underway. Vegas shows are also very good, with small venues (albeit expensive).

^ I remember Vegas in the seventies when the mob ran the casinos and they had good acts in the show rooms, I saw Bobby Darin the night of his last show Sonny and Cher had a show then, and the Rat Pack was performing I was in the Hilton Casino when Sinatra got into a fist fight with a gambler that was a thing. We had a good time at the Circus Circus that week last time I was there was just before the covid shutdown it was ok not great.