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The Mohegan Sun is another huge casino right nearby Foxwoods in Connecticut. Together these two have annual incomes larger than many small countries.

Mohegan has well over 6200 slot machines. You can find almost any denomination, and they are currently touting their 1/2 cent machines which they have a handful of (20 or so).

The casino opened in 1996, but what you see there now is radically different. It is world class facility that compare what is offered in Atlantic City and Las Vegas.

The Mohegan Sun is owned and operated by the Mohegan Tribe, and they also own and run the Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs in Pennsylvania.

Mohegan Sun
Mohegan Sun Blvd
Uncasville, CT 06382

Their website is http://www.mohegansun.com/

Where do we start?

Foxwoods is the largest and one of the original great Indian Casinos in the US. Mohegan Sun follows close behind and sometimes jumps ahead of them with machines, tables and shops restaurants and amenities.

Don’t let anyone fool you though, Foxwoods is the equal to most of the greats in Las Vegas. They are, in 2008, the largest casino in the world with 7400 machines and 380 table games.

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation opened the casino as a bingo hall in 1986. Since then it has grown by leaps and bounds after the agreement (Compact) with the State of Connecticut in 1992.

Foxwoods Resort Casino is located at:
39 Norwich-Westerly Road
Ledyard, CT 06339

There are almost 1500 rooms at Foxwoods and they have more than 40,000 visitors a day.

Wikipedia Foxwoods Link

Foxwoods Official Site Link (Note the talking woman on the home page who blinks a lot, that is the image above).

Just letting everyone know that Casino and Slot Review is planning to do a whole host of Casino updates in the coming months. Hold onto your gaming hats, because we are about to get on the fast track!

There are well over 1000 casinos in the US and we are going to review them all before we are done here. Chime in with your comments and you ratings on your favorite place to play slot machines. We are going to hit all 50 states.

In the news today the Venetian in Macao has opened and is said to be the largest casino in the world. It represents 2.4 billion dollars worth of investment.

It is the largest building in the world after the Boeing manufacturing plant and the largest building in Asia. The Venetian Macao has over 1,000,000 square feet of meeting space, over 550,000 square feet of gaming space with 3,400 slot machines and 870 table games.

Compare this the square footage of Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.

Foxwoods has 7,200 slots, 340,000 square feet of gaming, 400 table games.

Mohegan Sun has 6,197 slots, 300,000 square feet of gaming, 315 table games.

Amazing!!!

What are the best places to find news on Casino and Slots? For your ongoing reading enjoyment the Casino and Slot Review gives you the following time tested links to casino and slot articles and news.

• Pechanga.net focused on the Indian Gaming in the US. Updated daily, and read by industry insiders across the country.
• GamingFloor.com give updates for gaming news around the world. They are based out of the UK so they tend to have more news from Europe than US news, but they useful for Las Vegas information as well.
• CasinoCity has a tremendous database of information and many articles and writers. They publish comprehensive material with detailed information on Casinos all over the world which are used by industry professionals.
• Indianz is a site which looks closely at Indian gaming in the US. They are aggressive in their reporting and can be very informative.

There are many other news sources for the industry, but these have other the years proven to be particularly useful. Please let me know of any other really good ones out there that I have missed.

The Las Vegas Strip is the nickname for Las Vegas Blvd, where most of the largest Casinos in Las Vegas are located. The South Vegas Strip includes the following seven major Casino/Hotels:

• MGM Grand
• Excalibur
• New York New York
• Tropicana
• Monte Carlo
• Luxor
• Mandalay Bay

These major casinos are the nearest ones to the McCarran International Airport. 2006 saw over 46,000,000 people come through McCarran, making it the 11th most used airport in the world.

Like most of Vegas, it is difficult to walk to and from each of these casinos outside, but there is a tram that takes you from Excalibur to the Luxor and then Mandalay Bay. You can walk across pedestrian bridges to get to the four casinos on the corner of Tropicana the Strip (Excalibur, Tropicana, MGM, and New York/New York). Seeing these seven casinos in one or two days by staying at one of them and then exploring by walking and tram is a good way to get some variety without having to pay for cabs to go all over town. And at $25 or more a trip that makes an extra $50 a day to spend at a show, a restaurant or hitting the tables or slots.

(Clicking the image takes you to Google Maps for the South Strip.)

The MGM Grand is the largest hotel in the world with over 5000 rooms. This casino is has been a premier destination for gamblers from around the world for over 15 years. It has over 170,000 square feet of gaming space. The impressive MGM Grand Lion in from of the Casino and Hotel is one of the most recognizable icons in gaming.

The MGM is on the corner of the Strip (Las Vegas Boulevard) and E Tropicana Ave. The New York New York Hotel and Casino is across the Strip. The Tropicana is across Tropicana Ave and the Excalibur is on the opposite corner.

MGM Grand Las Vegas Website
3799 Las Vegas Blvd S, Las Vegas, NV 89109
Telephone (702) 891-1111

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Each spin of a slot machine is a random event. The result of that spin is determined independently of the previous spin. If you have had a losing streak the machine is not able to reward you with a win.

There is no component of a Las Vegas style slot machine that forces it to pay when it has taken a specific amount of money.

Now, having said that, it is mathematical fact that the longer you play a machine the more likely you are to get the jackpot. Your likelyhood of hitting the top prize goes up the more you play it. So, from a mathematical perspective, you are statistically more likely to hit the jackpot the more you play a machine. HOWEVER, you are statistically more likely to lose all your money the more you play a game.

The facts:

1) The more you play the greater the chance of hitting the jackpot.

2) The more you play the greater the certainty that you will lose all your money.

The result:

1) People want to hit the jackpot so they feed their money in machines until they hit.

2) Casinos make lots of money.

This is the foundation of the modern slot machine casino.

The traditional mechanical reel slot machine has one line across three reels.   This middle payline in the oldest and most obvious payline.  (Appeared when Charles Fey invented the slot machine in the early 1900’s.)  Today these are usually $.25, $1 or $5+ games.

Machines were later developed with 3 lines on those same reels. These often have similar denoms to the single line games.

Some slightly more complex mechanical reel games have 5 lines on the same three reels. (Began in the 1970’s).  Again, these are usually $.25, $1 or $5+ games as well. 

Video slots initially had 8 lines or 9 lines in either a 3 reel or 5 reel format.  (These began to appear in the 1980’s and the 1990’s.)  These are often played in the nickel denomination.

Today’s video slots now have 15, 20, 25, 30 or even 100 lines.  These are most often played in the penny denomination.  Manufacturers are pushing more and more lines everyday becuase the Casinos want more lines which make more money. 

So, how many winning lines should a slot machine have? A quarter denom should have 1-5, and nickel denom should have 8 or 9,  and a penny should have 15 or more lines.  It is all a matter of preference, but that is tha basic rule of thumb considering what most people play in Casinos across the the U.S.

Indian Tribes are sovereign nations. They have governmental relationships with the Federal and State Governments that is similar to the relationships between the US and France for example. In the late 70’s the Indian nations started to put some forms of gambling on their reservations and by the mid 1980’s they had full fledged gambling.

In 1987 the famous Cabazon case in the US Supreme court held that the Indian Tribes had the right to have gaming on their reservations. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act was quickly passed by the US Congress to limit Tribal Gaming. The IGRA still governs Tribal Gaming and imposes regulations and restrictions on what gaming can occur under what conditions. For the most part Tribes have to enter into compacts with the States that they are located in.

To learn more about this, two main resources are the National Indian Gaming Association, and the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Tribal Gaming is highly regulated by Tribes, the States (in somecases) and the Federal Government.