US and Canada members: do you go to tribal casinos or hold out for trips to "traditional" gaming cities such as Las Vegas?

I'm in Northern California and have multiple tribal casinos within a short driving distance, one of them is only a few minutes away and consistently has gas prices 25-50 cents/gallon cheaper than any other station.

They have "big name" performers stopping by often for live shows, multiple hotel rooms, and the same slot machines that the Vegas properties do, but the cigarette smoke at some tribal casinos can be overpowering during high-traffic periods such as New Year's Eve. Even though California bans smoking in public places, tribal reservation land is considered as a "sovereign nation" so they don't necessarily have to comply with all state laws.

Thunder Valley Casino and Resort is one of the largest properties in this area and also hosts WPT events.

Once a year I go to Vegas. In between trips out there I play at both Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun which are tribal casinos, and casinos in New Hampshire.

Well where I used to live they have a couple awesome casinos on tribal land that are great,

here they have what they call casinos on every corner but they're really just little rooms with slot machines,

but to answer the question... the tribal casinos I've been to were awesome, Vegas is also great fun in general,

so I guess my answer is why not both?👍

Well, I love Vegas, but you need way more money to go there, so I save a little for Vegas
and visit the tribal ones for a night of fun, well, at least I did in Washington.
But in Arkansas, I visit my local casino and horse track. ( a block away)
If I win, I put a little in my Vegas fund 😍

While I would love a trip to Vegas - it's long overdue - for me, Ontario has enough poker rooms FINALLY that one can scratch the itch to play live without going too far as there are 5 solid options within 2 hours of me including Great canadian casino Toronto which has held some of the bigger wsop Circuits over the last two years, and Playground is 4 1/2 the other direction which hosts both the WSOP & WPT & has fantastic cash games & a massive tournament venue,

It seems that the tribal casino market in Northern California is getting saturated, there was a new one that opened up in the typical temporary rigid tent structure that they often use but they couldn't even keep it going for a full year.

Having two other fairly large full-service tribal casinos within a 15-minute drive and being in a rural area on top of that certainly didn't help.

I dont really go to casinos unless friends want to or I have a conference.

CRStals said:

While I would love a trip to Vegas - it's long overdue - for me, Ontario has enough poker rooms FINALLY that one can scratch the itch to play live without going too far as there are 5 solid options within 2 hours of me including Great Canadian Casino Toronto which has held some of the bigger WSOP Circuits over the last two years, and Playground is 4 1/2 the other direction which hosts both the WSOP & WPT & has fantastic cash games & a massive tournament venue,

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The playground is on tribal land PG. Do you go there often Chris? We might have played at same table, a lot of people from Ontario there in the big events. I try to go 2 or 3 times a year. Here in New Brunswick, there is only 1 tribal casino, I only went there once, they don t have worth while garanties for tournaments, it is not that big.

lovemiscou said:

The playground is on tribal land PG. Do you go there often Chris? We might have played at same table, a lot of people from Ontario there in the big events. I try to go 2 or 3 times a year. Here in New Brunswick, there is only 1 tribal casino, I only went there once, they don t have worth while garanties for tournaments, it is not that big.

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I've only been a few times, dying to get back there but the options here are now much better so it is tougher to justify the longer drive to get there, but I did forget it was on tribal land...

There are 2 tribal casinos within 3 hours of me so and they are Caesars properties so I definitely go to the closest one as my primary casino. It only takes about 1 hour and 40 min to get there.