Winstar Casino Slot Machine Reviews

Owner description: WinStar World Casino and Resort has more games than any casino in the world! Offering more than 7,400 electronic games, 120 table games, a 3,500-seat Global Events Center, 27-hole golf course and academy, and a 895-room hotel. Located just north of the Oklahoma/Texas border along Interstate 35, WinStar World Casino and Resort presents 24/7 gaming action, world-class entertainers and a wide range of restaurants.

WinStar World Casino and Resort is an economic enterprise of the Chickasaw Nation. I travel to Winstar World Casino about once a week to play poker. It s about 4 1/2 hours from west Austin, where I live. I ve played poker all over the world, and the Winstar poker room is one of my favorite places to play.

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That being said, if you re not a poker player, you might not like like the place as well as I do.

The food is terrible, maybe the worst buffet I ve ever eaten at. As other reviewers have mentioned, there is a 50 cent per hand rake on blackjack, as there is in almost every tribal casino in Oklahoma.

The slots are incredibly tight, AND, since the slots are bingo card based, you might think you ve won a jackpot, as I did, only to have the floor person tell me that, it doesn t matter if you have three sevens lined up across the payline, it didn t win on the bingo card , and refuse to pay you.

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So, when I go there now, I only play poker.

The poker room has daily tourneys, and always has action, no matter what time of the day or night. My wife and I have been frequenting Winstar Casino for the last 3 years and always look forward to our next trip there. It s only a little over an hour from our house (way too convenient) so it s good for a quick trip or an all day excursion. It s been fun watching as the casino has been renovated and expanded.

We got a free room 3 weeks ago (which they upgraded to a suite) and got to try out the new hotel which was very nice.

We are slot players and like the casino for it s huge selection of machines.I think they advertise the number at 5,800. My wife is the serious player and in the last 8 months has hit jackpots ranging from $5,000 one time down to several winners in the $1,000 - $2,000 range. Of course there have been some trips where she couldn t hit the broad side of a barn! Just before Christmas, we ran up there on a Thursday after work since she had qualified for a cash drawing they were doing. Luck would have it, she was the first name called and won $4,000 just for being there! I play more for the entertainment value and usually bet low and play many different machines each visit. Rather than sit at one machine for a long time, I think it is a better strategy to hit as many machines as I can and give them a few pulls each. I never win anything big but rarely walk out with any substantial losses.

Winstar also has a decent events center.

We saw Don Henley and Joe Cocker there last year and had a blast. Anyway, to each his own.

We totally enjoy Winstar and always look forward to our nextWe won! We lost! But most of all, we had a good time. I surprised my husband with a one-night getaway to WinStar, which was pretty easy since it s just over an hour from our home in Dallas.

The rates at the hotel were ridiculous, so we stayed at the Hampton Inn in Gainesville about 5 miles away. My review is for the casino only! Both my husband and I really enjoy gambling, so that was our main focus of the evening. I was particularly excited they had a craps table as most reserve casinos do not.

We quickly found the Beijing area of the casino that had both craps and blackajck (for him so we split up and played our games. Here s how Craps works at WinStar: it is called card-based Craps.

There are NO dice on the table. Instead of dice, there is a deck of cards that the craps dealer (aka the boxman) is responsible for.

They are the shooter if you will.

The deck of cards is placed into an auto-shuffler and three cards are dispensed.

The dealer spreads out the three cards, selects the middle one, and scans the card into a bardcode reader. Each card is a specific role of the dice.

So for example, the four of hearts is a hard-four roll, while the four of clubs is an easy four.

The number on the card doesn t necessarily indicate the number of the die (for example, an Ace is in the deck so you must watch one of two screens above the table to see what the roll was. Each restart to the point requires a $1 ante.

So, before the point is set on the come out roll, if you play on the pass line ($5 bet) you must give a $1 ante. If a 7 hits, you win on your $5 pass line bet, but if you want to play on the next shoot you have to give another $1 ante. You must ante even if you re not playing the pass line. Outside of the cards and the ante, the game is normal. Once I got the hang of it, I thought it was OK and an acceptable substitute if dice are outlawed for some reason. I still got the fun of mingling with others at the casino, cheering on wins, lamenting on losses, and getting to play with actual chips. I really liked that it was a $5 minimum since I m not typically a high roller. One thing I didn t like was that because there was no clear beginning to the shoot (i.e. Dice are out in normal craps a few times the croupiers missed that the roll even happened! This typically occurred when the croupiers were explaining the game to someone.whether it be the card-based part of it or just craps in general. A few times I had to get their attention and point out I had won and that they needed to pay me out. You have to pay attention in craps anyway, if you have multiple bets on the table, but this was a little unprofessional. I think they need a little cheat sheet or a sign explaining the game for those who didn t understand. I didn t play any Blackjack, but my husband did, and he also had to provide a 50 cent ante for each hand he played. After we lost a good amount of money on table games, we played some slot machines. I was pleased to discover that Winstar has many ofOwner description: WinStar World Casino and Resort has more games than any casino in the world! Offering more than 7,400 electronic games, 120 table games, a 3,500-seat Global Events Center, 27-hole golf course and academy, and a 895-room hotel. Located just north of the Oklahoma/Texas border along Interstate 35, WinStar World Casino and Resort presents 24/7 gaming action, world-class entertainers and a wide range of restaurants.

WinStar World Casino and Resort is an economic enterprise of the Chickasaw Nation. I have been going to Winstar for over 15 years to play and purchase cigarettes from the Indian reservation. I was going back when it was a dinky little building with about 40 slot machines and a bingo hall. Back then it looked like any other bingo hall that had been around since the 1970 s. You could win back then but now that it expanded to this huge empire you can forget it. If you play the slots then kiss your money good bye! Anyone that tells you any different doesn t live in the area like I do or they work for the casino. You will lose consistently. You can t even when small jackpots to keep you interested in playing, like slot machines at casinos in other states.

This is hard to explain but I will try to do the best that I can.

The slots odds of winning are all based on bingo card games odds because of the Oklahoma state laws requires this to be the basis of a winner.

The reason why is because gambling in Oklahoma is illegal but bingo isn t so the casino basis everything off of bingo odds. Don t believe me? Look at the slot machines little LCD monitor on every slot machine in the casino and you will see a bingo card and if you push a next button you can change bingo cards until you see one that you fancy before every spin or game.

The casino has all of the slot machines hooked together and to a main frame computer.

This computer figures the odds of winning on a bingo games odds.

There can only be one winner in a bingo game.

The winner of the bingo odds isn t guaranteed a big jackpot either but rather a win.

Which means the winner may only win the smallest jackpot on the pay table which usually means a very small jackpot especially if you put in the minimum bet. Back when the casino had fewer machines you had more winners and bigger jackpots but the more slot machines they hook together is like adding more players to the same bingo game which means less winners. Back when the casino was smaller I knew the guy that ran it and he explained all of this to me. He would tell me how the Indian reservations head honchos would go and argue with the state law makers to try and get gambling legalized.

They lobbied and backed politicians that they thought would be sympathetic to their plight.

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Finally they struck a deal but no new laws were actually passed. Instead the casino just bribed the state with entertainment tax. Keep reading.

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