U.S. Gambling - Casino Directory - Connecticut

Foxwoods Resort Casino
Route 2
Mashantucket, Connecticut 06338
(860) 312-3000
Website: www.foxwoods.com

Map Location: #1 (45 miles S.E. of Hartford; 12 miles N. of I-95 at Mystic). From I-95 take exit 92 to Rt. 2-West, casino is 7 miles ahead. From I-395 take exit 79A to Rt. 2A follow to Rt. 2-East, casino is 2 miles ahead.

Toll-Free Number: (800) FOXWOODS
Hotel Reservations: (800) FOXWOODS
Rooms: 1,416 Price Range: $140-$325
Suites: 198 Price Range: $175-$1,500
Restaurants: 24 (3 open 24 hours)
Buffets: B-$7.95 L-$13.95 D-$13.95
Casino Size: 314,492 Square Feet
Casino Marketing: (800) 99-SLOTS
Overnight RV Parking: Free (self-contained only)
RV Dump: No
Special Features: Three hotels with pool, spa, beauty salon and golf. Headliner entertainment. Five nightclubs including a BB King Nite Club and Club BB. Gift shops. Wampum Trading Post Super Store. Hard Rock Cafe. Wampum Card members earn complimentaries at table games, slots, poker and race book. 10% room discount for AAA and AARP members. Two Rees Jones designed golf courses to open in 2005.


Mohegan Sun Casino
1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard
Uncasville, Connecticut 06382
(860) 862-8000
Website: www.mohegansun.com

Map Location: #2 (Take I-95 Exit 76/I-395 North. Take Exit 79A (Route 2A) East. Less than 1 mile to Mohegan Sun Boulevard)

Toll-Free Number: (888) 226-7711
Room Reservations: (888) 777-7922
Rooms: 1,020 Price Range: $175-$400
Suites: 180 Price Range: $300-$1,000
Restaurants: 29 (3 open 24 hours)
Buffets (Seasons): B-$8.95 L/D-$14.95
Buffets (Sunburst): L/D-$18.00
Casino Size: 295,000 Square Feet
Overnight RV Parking: Free/RV Dump: No
Special Features: Food court with specialty food outlets. Kid’s Quest supervised children’s activity center. On-site gas station. Free nightly entertainment in the Wolf Den Showroom.

 

History of Gambling - Casinos in Connecticut

Gambling in Connecticut: A History Lesson

In January 1993 an agreement was made between the state's Governor and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe who operate the Foxwoods Resort Casino, which gave the tribe the exclusive right in Connecticut to operate slot machines on their Ledyard reservation in return for a yearly fee.

Foxwoods was New England’s first casino. When the casino first opened in February 1992, slot machines were not permitted. But following the 1993 agreement allowing them to operate slot machines it became the largest casino in the world and possibly the most profitable gambling operation in the USA.

The following year in early 1994 the Mohegan tribe too signed an agreement with the state of Connecticut that allows them to offer casino gambling at their reservation in Uncasville. This was done with permission by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe. In return, the state lowered the Pequots yearly fee payment requirements. The same payment schedule also applies to the Mohegans who eventually opened their casino in 1996. The payment schedules are subject to cancellation, however, if the state legalizes any other form of casino gambling.

The games offered at Mohegan Sun are: blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat, mini-baccarat, pai gow, wheel of fortune/big six wheel, bingo, poker, pai gow poker, caribbean stud poker, let it ride, Spanish 21, casino war, sic bo and keno. There is also a simulcast facility with pari-mutuel betting.

The minimum gambling age at both casinos is 18 for bingo and 21 for casino gambling. Both casinos are open 24 hours. For information on Connecticut call the State’s Vacation Center at (800) 282-6863.

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

U.S. Casino and Gambling - Facts and Fancies

  • Prehistoric Southern Nevada was a virtual marsh of abundant water and vegetation. As eons passed, the marsh receded. Rivers disappeared beneath the surface. The once teeming wetlands evolved into a parched, arid landscape that supported only the hardiest of plants and animals. Water trapped underground in the complicated geologic formations of the Las Vegas Valley sporadically surfaced to nourish luxuriant plants, creating an oasis in the desert as the life- giving water flowed to the Colorado River.

  • A Casino is a physical establishment in which various games of chance are conducted. Many casinos are also resort hotels, such as those in Monte Carlo, Las Vegas, and Atlantic City. Due to gaming regulations in some states, casinos are sometimes built as riverboats on bodies of water (most of these casinos are actually stationary barges in artificial lakes that are connected to rivers). In 1998, U.S. casinos had $24.3 billion in revenue. Since the late 1980s casinos have been built on many Indian reservations. The world's largest casino is the Foxwoods Resort Casino (Ledyard, Conn.), owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Nation. Opened in 1998, the casino has 6,000 slot machines and 350 gaming tables, plus hotels, restaurants, and retail shops. Other reservation casinos include the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota's Mystic Lake Casino (Prior Lake, Minn.), the Mohegan Sun casino (Uncasville, Conn.), the Oneida Nation's Turning Stone (Verona, N.Y.), and the many Pueblo-run casinos in New Mexico. Revenues from Indian-run casinos represented two fifths of all U.S. casino revenues by 2004.

  • Most casinos do not have clocks.

  • The Flamingo Hotel and Casino officially opened on 26 December 1946. A huge party was organized, with many of the film stars of the day in attendance. The hotel was not finished, so the guests had nowhere to sleep. They partied for two days and then went home.

  • 7 of 10 U.S. adults placed some sort of wager in the last year.

  • The online gambling industry generated $12 billion in revenue in 2005.

  • Over 20 gambling companies are listed on non-U.S. stock exchanges. The biggest poker company has a market value of almost $9 billion. The biggest sports betting company has a market value of almost $3 billion.
  • The MGM-Mirage has publicly lobbied to allow U.S. companies to take part in online gambling.

  • Gambling is entering mainstream corporate America: Liberty Media (owner of the QVC and Encore TV networks) is finalizing the purchase of Fun Technologies, which owns a majority interest in the Don Best sports information company.

  • Slot machines, though some of the most popular casino games, have always been the topic of various urban legends and stories of how they work, whether they are fair and who, in fact, controls them.

  • Slot machines though, are strictly regulated by state gambling commissions and subjected to batteries of technical tests for fairness, security, and consistency of acceptable pay out.

  • State run lotteries have flourished in the last few decades all with the veneer of supporting public education, among other ailing infrastructures. Billions of dollars are reaped in revenues annually and millions, in turn, spent on advertising the biggest lottery games with the poorest odds.

  • Add together all the numbers on a roulette wheel (1 to 36). The total is the mystical number 666, often associated with the Devil.

  • The casino game with some of the best odds, blackjack can also have terrible odds. The skillful practice of card counting and shuffle tracking is only mastered by a few experienced players.

  • The fact is that card sharks and shady dice rollers still exist. As long as there are gambling games, there will be those who think they can control the outcome to their advantage and through deceitful means. Loaded dice, a popular tool of cheats, have been a part of the gambling landscape since the era of the ancient Romans.

  • New Orleans was the first major gambling center in the USA. In 1817, taverns and coffee houses provided rooms and tables for private gambling. It legalized in 1823 and charged $5000 for a gambling license.

  • Traditional Indian games have been a part of tribal cultures for thousands of years. In the last few decades, impoverished tribes have fought to be allowed to run casinos on tribal lands as a means of generating much needed income and boosting employment opportunities in a culture whose unemployment rate is exponentially higher than anywhere else in America. Consequently, one of the biggest casinos in the world is tribal owned and operated.