Got an Interesting Casino Story?

For myself, I can never get enough of unusual Vegas casino stories. For instance, just a few years ago, when they switched from coins to paper on the slots, my wife and I were actually 'back-roomed' at Circus Circus over a slot incident. She put a slot receipt for $45 that she got from one machine, into another machine, and nothing happened. We got a slot attendent, and then a supervisor to open the machine and they couldn't find the receipt. We kept insisting it was put in the machine and they took us to the security area, off the casino floor, down a hallway and into a very small room. A big burly older man came in and I swear he was out of a movie, he was very menacing. He asked us question after question, in an extremely unfriendly fashion, and we were guests of the hotel! He said if they opened the box where the receipts were, and ours wasn't in there for that amount, we could go to jail for fraud. My wife was terrified. I stuck with the story and about 20min later he came back in, handed us $45 in cash, didn't say another word, didn't apologise, nothing. It was a sobering experience, believe me. We checked out immediately and haven't been back.

I love reading about people who have had unusual casino experiences, there have got to be hundreds of them out there.

I believe there were dozens of unusual experiences the last time some NBA event took place in town. Floor and Pit personnel not making phone calls about it either. CWs dealt with a great deal that night, including display of firearms that the casino did nothing about.

Many people get treated poorly due to misperceptions or simply because security types tend to think any situation is an attempt to rip them off.

I was once frisked at a place that I think is now called Bills but it was politely done. Nowadays, I don't think security guards are quite so concerned about being polite or subtle.

I was in the Klondike Casino in the spring of 06 and had played about 6 hands of BJ and was up about $250. It was just a good string of hands, pure luck. A pit suit came up and told the dealer to deal me out of the next hand. He then asked me to leave the casino immediately. I said 'HUH?' I had just sat down. He told me my play wasn't welcome and I had to leave. So I went and got my wife, who had a free buffet coupon. We stood in line at the buffet and here comes the suit again. My wife showed him the coupon and he tore it into 6 pieces and threw it on the floor! He said we both had to leave or he was calling the cops. I told him he had a dump of a casino anyway, as my wife was dragging me out. The Klondike closed that summer, couldn't happen to nicer folks..