The Motor City Hotel & Casino is a luxurious resort located in the city of Detroit, capital of the state of Michigan in the United States. The region is driven by all four casinos located near the Detroit River. The casino is located on an area of 74 000 sq and offers an experience of innovative games. Just before 6 a.m., officials said the problem had been corrected, the machines were operating again, and the casino floor was reopened. Slot machine gamblers @MotorCityCasino can go back to playing. MotorCity Casino has over 2,500 slot machines and video poker games. The slot machines range from penny slots up to $50 slots for the big shooters. Motor City Casino Poker Room. The poker room at Motor City has 14 total tables and offers daily tournaments plus a bad beat jackpot. The tournament schedule can be found here. They used to have an online reservations system for the poker room, but they disabled it. GreekTown Casino Restuarants and Bars.
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by Howard Berenbon
When you visit a casino, it's always a good idea to have a game plan. First, decide what games you'll play, how much money you'll wager per game and your loss limit. And it's also wise to take some expert advice with you for a winning edge. And so, on a recent visit to MotorCity Casino, I had a plan. I was going to play the slots; no table games this time. I had a modest $20 dollar limit and an expert with me.
Actually, I really didn't have an expert with me, but some notes taken last month while reading Gayle Mitchell's book, 'More Casino Gambling Made Easier.' She's a well known gambling expert who contributes to Casino Detroit Magazine. I studied her book and was ready to play those slots that Gayle recommends. It was a Friday morning (after I drove my two girls to school) when I headed downtown to MotorCity Casino for a morning of slot machine fun.
I was in search of a few good machines. First of all, Gayle recommends playing only single pay line machines in various formats. They offer a better pay off than those that pay on several lines. So, if you're lucky enough to hit on a machine, and people do, you'll make more money for your investment. Among the machines Gayle recommends are ones with 2 or 3 double symbols on the wheels. She also says to play those machines near high traffic areas (near the buffet line, near the cashier and etc.). And I've heard that recommendation from other experts. Those machines could be set to pay off more frequently to help encourage those not playing to play. It certainly adds to the casino excitement if someone hits a jackpot while you're waiting in line for seating at the lunch or dinner buffet. One more recommendation, which also makes sense, is to play the two coin machines maximum bet slots. You'll get at least one third more playing time.
Since I had a twenty dollar limit on my losses, I limited my play to quarter slots. That would give me more playing time for my money. So, I headed into the casino searching for a couple different single pay line machines with some of Gayle's criteria. I found a Triple Diamond machine that looked good and popped in three quarters. Then I hit the spin button, but nothing. I then moved over to a Wild Cherry machine to my left and hit three times in a row. Okay, that's the way to do it. It wasn't a jackpot, but it gave me some playing money. Then I found a Red, White and Blue quarter slot with double pay symbols, and won a few more handful of coins, but then gave it back. These machines required three coins for the maximum bet. Unfortunately, after searching all three floor of MotorCity, I couldn't find any two coin quarter slots. All the two coin machines I found were $0.50 and $1.00 wagers.
I continued trying a few more quarter slots here and there until I lost my very small winnings plus $10 more. So, I gave up and started looking for the nickel slots I won on last time. I know I broke a few of Gayle's rules by playing the nickel machines, which are multi-lined and more than three reels. But, I found a few that were fun. I started with a 'Filthy Rich' nickel slot on the first floor, near the escalator, and won about $10 on the first four spins. Then I continued toward the front exit to see if I could get a spot on one of the very popular Monopoly machines. I was in luck.
It wasn't that crowded at 11:30 a.m., and two Monopoly machines were open. On a previous visit, I watched them payoff, so I was happy to get a chance to play. In fact, I hit on the first 5 spins, and was about $20 ahead. Then my luck wavered and gave it all back plus some. But, I did have about a half hour of steady play with a chance to hit a jackpot. So, in my two hour visit to MotorCity Casino, I had lots of playing time (about an hour), added more points to my club card, with a chance at becoming an instant MotorCity Millionaire (a current club card promotion) and only lost $12. Actually, if you can leave a casino with only a $12 loss, you're way ahead in my book.
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Next time, I'll play some of the poker machines Gayle recommends, and maybe try a few $0.50 two-coin slots. And then I'll head off to the buffet for lunch. I couldn't stay for the buffet this time, but next visit I'll take my winnings to lunch.
A line of cars wrapped around the block Wednesday morning in Detroit, from the entrance to the MotorCity Casino Hotel on Temple Street to three-quarters of the way down the next block on Grand River Avenue.
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For the first time since March 16, a Detroit casino was open to the public. Two miles away, at the Greektown Casino, a security guard said he heard the queue of vehicles at MotorCity stretched “all the way to New York.”
MotorCity, Greektown, and the MGM Grand Detroit all reopened to differing degrees on Wednesday, after an executive order from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer permitted the city’s three commercial casinos to welcome guests, following a months-long shutdown meant to halt the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
MGM restricted access to invite-only VIP customers for its first two days of operation and will begin admitting the general public Friday at 10 a.m. Greektown opened Wednesday morning to VIP gold-card holders and to the public at 2 p.m. Only MotorCity flung open its doors to one and all Wednesday at 10 a.m., and eager gamblers from southeast Michigan flocked to the property.
Michigamblers excited to resume normal betting lives
“It’s about time,” said Jean Manz, from St. Clair Shores, who explained that she was relieved she no longer had to travel to the Hollywood Casino in nearby northwest Ohio. “We’ve been driving to Toledo.”
For Detroit residents without access to private vehicles, however, the option of driving an hour south to Toledo or two hours west to the FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek wasn’t an option. “If I knew how to get down there, I would’ve been there,” said Sandra Bell. “I couldn’t go anywhere else.”
And after months of locked down storefronts and social distancing, Bell said she was dying to return to the casino, sit down at the penny slots, and kibbitz with fellow bettors and casino employees. “Just being around people,” Bell said. “To sit around, have a good time — I missed it so much.”
Although mobile casino gaming and sports betting was approved by the Michigan legislature last December, online gambling remains unavailable, while the state waits for the Michigan Gaming Control Board to finalize implementation rules and grant approval to individual operators. The rollout is expected late this year or early next, but Bell said she would have welcomed the opportunity to play legal, online casino games during the brick-and-mortar casinos’ hiatus. “As long as if I win, I can get paid!” Bell said.
Limited capacity, health protocols in effect
“We have invested considerable time and effort to prepare for an opening with our highest priority being the health and safety of our employees and guests,” said MotorCity Casino President Bruce Dall in a statement released shortly after Whitmer signed last week’s executive order.
Those preparations were obvious, given the considerable time and effort it took for MotorCity guests to get into the casino Wednesday morning. One reason for the line of cars snaked around the block outside the casino was that guests had to pass a drive-through temperature check and mask inspection to gain access to the self-parking lot. Once visitors had parked, they had to line up at the casino entrance for a second mask check and to flash their IDs. For many who arrived Wednesday around the 10 a.m. opening time, the entire process took close to 30 minutes.
Inside, safety protocols included hand sanitizer stations set up throughout the casino floor, plexiglass partitions between slot machines, and limited seating at table games, with plexiglass barriers separating players at blackjack and baccarat tables from each other and from the dealers. For now, smoking is prohibited on the casino floor, and more cocktail waitresses appeared to be wearing face shields than not.
A few feet away from the roulette tables, a MotorCity pit boss could be overheard reinforcing the safety regulations for her craps dealers: “If someone walks up to your table wanting to play, the first thing they have to do is use hand sanitizer.”
The one aspect of Detroit’s reopening that differs from casino comebacks in other states and at Michigan’s tribal casinos is the strict 15% capacity limit imposed by Whitmer’s order — the lowest reported occupancy cap in the nation. When casinos reopened in Atlantic City, N.J., last month, they ran at 25% capacity. Meanwhile, Hollywood Casino in Toledo is operating at 50% capacity, and some of Michigan’s tribal casinos told the Detroit Free Press that they will admit up to 80%.
If the 15% limit remains in place for a long period of time, it could present business challenges to the Detroit casinos. Industry analysts, however, said they believe the capacity restrictions could be raised to something closer to 50% once the casinos can demonstrate their safety measures are effective.
“I think they’re all planning on a ramp to something far north of 15%,” said Alex Calderone, managing director of Calderone Advisory Group in Birmingham, Mich. “They’re in the baby-step mode right now, and the name of the game is, prove that they can open responsibly and without any significant outbreaks at 15%. Then, gradually move up from there.”
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