U.S. Gambling - Casino Directory - Kansas

Casino White Cloud
777 Jackpot Drive
White Cloud, Kansas 66094
(785) 595-3430
(70 miles N.E. of Topeka)

Toll-Free Number: (877) 652-6115
Restaurants: 1 Liquor: Beer and Wine
Buffets: L-$5.75 D-$8.00
Casino Size: 21,000 Square Feet
Casino Hours: 9am-1am/3am (Fri/Sat)
Other Games: TCP, P, BG, K, No Roulette
Overnight RV Parking: Free/RV Dump: No
Special Features: No alcohol served on Sundays.


Golden Eagle Casino
1121 Goldfinch Road
Horton, Kansas 66439
(785) 486-6601
(45 miles N. of Topeka)
Website: www.goldeneaglecasino.com

Toll-Free Number: (888) 464-5825
Restaurants: 2 Liquor: No
Buffets: B-$3.95 L-$5.95 D-$7.95/$8.95(Thu-Sat)/$10.95 (Tue)
Other Games: P, LIR, BG (Wed-Sun)
Overnight RV Parking: Free/RV Dump: No


Harrah’s Prairie Band Casino and Hotel
12305 150th Road
Mayetta, Kansas 66509
(785) 966-7777
Website: www.harrahs.com
(17 miles N. of Topeka)

Toll-Free Number: (800) HARRAHS
Rooms: 290 Price Range: $49-$139
Suites: 8 Price Range: Casino Use Only
Restaurants: 3 Liquor: Only Beer and Wine
Buffets: B-$7.99 L-$8.99/$9.99 (Sun) D-$12.99/$14.99 (Wed-Sat)
Casino Size: 63,000 Square Feet
Other Games: P, LIR, TCP
Overnight RV Parking: Free
RV Dump: at RV park
Special Features: No alcohol served on Sundays. 67-space RV park.


Sac & Fox Casino
1322 U.S. Highway 75
Powhattan, Kansas 66527
(785)-467-8000
(60 miles N. of Topeka)
Website: www.sacandfoxcasino.com

Toll-Free Number: (800) 990-2946
Restaurant: 3 Liquor: Yes
Buffets: B-$3.95 L-$6.95 D-$8.95
Casino Size: 40,000 Square Feet
Other Games: CSP, LIR, TCP
Overnight RV Parking: $10/RV Dump: Included
Senior Discount: $1 off meals if 55 or older
Special Features: 24-hour truck stop. Golf driving range. RV hook-ups. No alcohol served on Sundays.

History of Gambling - Casinos in Kansas

There are four Indian tribes in Kansas with casinos. According to officials at the Kansas State Gaming Agency the terms of the state’s compacts with the tribes regarding the minimum payback amounts on their machines are not a matter of public record and no information can be released.

Unless otherwise noted, all Kansas casinos are open 24 hours and offer the following games: blackjack, craps, roulette, slots and video poker. Other games include: poker (P), Caribbean stud poker (CSP), let it ride (LIR), three card poker (TCP) and bingo (BG). The minimum gambling age is 21.

For more information on visiting Kansas call the state’s tourism department at (800) 2-KANSAS or visit their web site at www.visitks.com

 

 

 

 


 

 

U.S. Casino and Gambling - Facts and Fancies

  • Some Microgaming online casino operators restrict certain US states because of very specific local laws that prohibit online gambling. The restricted states are: Michigan, Illinois, Louisiana, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Indiana, Nevada, South Dakota, New Jersey and New York.

  • 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.

  • The fact is that just about every one of the fifty states in the U.S. now have legal gambling and/or legalized gambling facilities in some way, shape or form. (note how ironic it is that the current U.S. laws have made online gambling more difficult than ever) But all that aside, there are literally thousands of places in north america you can go gamble at.

    These places include casinos in Las Vegas, Atlantic City as well as other popular casino gambling destinations including native american - indian casinos, poker and card rooms and bingo halls.

  • 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.