Road Pics

[mickeycrimm]

Metropolis, Illinois

[redietz]

Metropolis, Illinois

It's good to see that Batgirl has a job dealing in Metropolis. I hear Metropolis pays much better than Gotham City. But she really should keep a lower profile.

[mickeycrimm]

St. Louis, Missouri

[mickeycrimm]

Another St. Louis casino

[pkspins]

It is really neat to see what all these places look like.
I think you mentioned that you got cards at all of the places you visited. Your mailbox should be swimming in offers pretty soon.
I'd be interested to hear how they compare to your local offers and to each other. My greater interest would be the southern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois casinos specifically, but . My experience with play at out-of-area locals has been that the return offers are disproportionately high, since zip code I think factors into the calculation, but it really varies. This has worked to my advantage when I have repetitive travel to the same location to actually use them.
I also find it entertaining how long places will continue to send offers....the one off places not the CETs or other chain casino card groups. For most it's a few months and then nothing except for perhaps a periodic postcard. Others keep sending things for years.

[MisterV]

Yes, it really is nice.

Mickey, you might want to consider posting a sticky-thread showing all the casinos you've photographed, state by state, in a searchable manner.

[mickeycrimm]

Downtown St. Louis

[tableplay]

Mickey, these postings and pictures of the casinos you have visited around the Midwest are terrific. thanks for posting them.

[mickeycrimm]

It is really neat to see what all these places look like.
I think you mentioned that you got cards at all of the places you visited. Your mailbox should be swimming in offers pretty soon.
I'd be interested to hear how they compare to your local offers and to each other. My greater interest would be the southern Ohio, Indiana and Illinois casinos specifically, but . My experience with play at out-of-area locals has been that the return offers are disproportionately high, since zip code I think factors into the calculation, but it really varies. This has worked to my advantage when I have repetitive travel to the same location to actually use them.
I also find it entertaining how long places will continue to send offers....the one off places not the CETs or other chain casino card groups. For most it's a few months and then nothing except for perhaps a periodic postcard. Others keep sending things for years.

The best offers I've received are from where I ran video poker action and this has only been in a few spots. It has to be a decent play or I won't run it. I found a dollar 9/6 Jacks triple meter at Choctaw Durant, Oklahoma in August and ran $20,000 in action. The card was worth .1% freeplay. They sent me $300 in freeplay for October broken down into weekly increments of $75, plus two buffet comps and a phone number to call for a "discounted or comped room." They sent me the same offer for November.

[mickeycrimm]

Maryland Heights. Outskirts of St. Louis

[mickeycrimm]

Ameristar, St. Charles, Missouri. I was there late night and the outside pictures didn't take well.

[FABismonte]

Hi Mickey:

I love that balcony shot of the craps table! Odd that the players are using chairs.

[mickeycrimm]

Hi Mickey:

I love that balcony shot of the craps table! Odd that the players are using chairs.

I got there about 4 in the morning. They were probably degenerate gamblers who had been at the table all night and got tired of standing.

[quahaug]

Hi Mickey:

I love that balcony shot of the craps table! Odd that the players are using chairs.

I got there about 4 in the morning. They were probably degenerate gamblers who had been at the table all night and got tired of standing.

You saw Alan and Rob there?

[mickeycrimm]

Alton, Illinois

[regnis]

Mick--are these casinos located in desolate areas or bad neighborhoods or are they out in the boonies or in or near large cities. Or a little of everything.

[mickeycrimm]

Mick--are these casinos located in desolate areas or bad neighborhoods or are they out in the boonies or in or near large cities. Or a little of everything.

I wouldn't want to go walking around late night in downtown Evansville, Cincinnati or St. Louis. I was a little concerned about my car in downtown St. Louis even though it was daytime when I was there. But other than these few examples I had no problem with the locations of the rest. The ones around the urban areas are located in the suburbs, nice areas. Then there are those in the rural areas surrounded by farmland or on rivers. So yes, they run the gamut from urban to suburb to rural areas.

[mickeycrimm]

LaGrange, Missouri

[mickeycrimm]

Council Bluffs, Iowa

[OneHitWonder]

Nothing like feeding the hand that bites you.