Review Detail

2.3 46
Washington 8372
Don't like your money? Play here!
(Updated: July 14, 2015)
Overall rating
 
2.3
Slots
 
2.0
Table Games
 
1.0
Customer Service
 
3.0
Player's Club
 
1.0
Gaming Atmosphere
 
4.0
Amenities or Hotel
 
N/A
Food & Drink
 
3.0
First things first, the facility is well played out, the have a nice sized non-smoking Casino that is by itself, larger than many other tribal casinos whole properties are. The staff is usually friendly, but as typical of many tribal casinos, there are a fair number of Natives that work here who really don't care about customer service because they know that their job is protected based on their Bloodlines, regardless of how well they do their job or not.

SLOTS: decent selection, pretty tight but not the worst I've seen.

PLAYERS CLUB: one word, horrible! I should be able to play in ANY Casino for a decent average bet for a couple of hours and, win or lose, earn enough points to buy a $10-15 meal. You used to be able to here, but not now. They have special "promotions" where on certain days or certain hours you earn "3x" or "5x" points. That all sounds great until you realize the shell game they are playing. What they do is lower the rate points accumulate to an absurdly low level and then promote "multiplayer" days as if its some big deal. Really, 6x crap points is still crap.

HOTEL: ha-ha. No Hotel. Not so cheap flea bag motel a few miles down the street, however!

FOOD: Pretty decent, for a Casino. I've eaten at all of the venues and while nothing here is outstanding, it's not bad either.

DRINKS: Ridiculously tiny complimentary soda/coffee self serve cups. These are so small, that I almost feel a need to rinse and spit because they aren't a whole lot larger than a Dixie cup ;) So, what happens here is that the line gets backed up because people either fill two cups up or fill one, down it and then fill it back up. Seriously, they look super cheap and unclassy by offering tiny cups. Not a big thing, but also not cool. I mean, you'd think they'd want people at their tables or machines playing and not making several trips to the refreshment counter. Just stupid business in my opinion.

TABLE GAMES: Lot's of variety. That sounds like it would be a good thing, but when all but a few choices have terrible house edges. The only truly playable table games offered here, that have fair odds of winning are Baccarat and Craps. That's it. So, you say wait, "They offer Blackjack. That is supposed to have decent odds if played correctly, right?" Well, if the playing rules and conditions are fair, yes. But they are NOT here. They do offer a $1/Blackjack game. BUT it pays even money on blackjacks! Horrible game, odds wise. They offer a single deck game that pays even money on blackjacks unless they are BJ's in the suit of diamonds. They offer another black jack variant where the dealer pushes on 22, EVEN IF you have 21. Spanish 21 is offered, but that's a foolish game to play because the 10's are all removed from the decks. Their 8 deck shoe games have all of those carnival games mentioned above beat in their unplayability, however. They are dealt from an automatic shuffler that has the most non-random and biased shufflers, consistently. Here is the SCAM with these (this isn't just a Muckleshoot thing, its many, if not most auto shufflers in use today) So, the cards are shuffled up in to biased shuffles. You will see ruthingd clumps of low cards and high cards over and over again, show after shoe, day after day. What happens is when high cards are running, the dealer will have a made hand and often push the players "20." Conversely, when a clump of low cards come out (often in almost ORDER) the dealer with show a "bust" card but will have plenty of low cards coming out to make their hand and the players stay on stiff hands of 12-16 thinking the dealer has a good chance to "bust" and they will win. This rarely happens and the dealer often looks very "lucky" when they turn their starting dealer up card of "6" in to 20 or 21 over and over. You'll hear people say, "wow! That's amazing!" Sorry, it's not "amazing", it's planned.

All of the other table games offered are your typical carnival fare, Four Card Poker, Pai How, etc... Stay away!

Craps does have decent betting odds here, so that's okay. The Baccarat pit is decent, too.

The table games are so awful here that I live two blocks away from Muckelshoot and I drive 30 to Red Wind where they have hand shuffled double deck black jack if I'm in the mood to play Blackjack. I only play Baccarat and Craps here. I'd suggest you do the same unless you wanna tempt fate, but don't say I didn't warn you!

ENTERTAINMENT: They often have some thing bands come through their club Galaxy and sometimes have comedians and other shows. It's usually free or very reasonable, so that's a good thing!

OVERALL: Ok food, tight slots, terrible table games (stay away if you like your money!) Nice facility, large non-smoking section, ok
LD
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