Bellagio
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
2,300 slots150 tables40 poker3,900 rooms
Bellagio opened on the site of the demolished Dunes in 1998 and set the template for the upmarket Las Vegas resort: a fountain lake across eight…
Country
Casinos in United States
38 venues recorded across 10 regions and destinations.
The United States has no single casino licence. Each state decides whether to permit casino gaming, in what format and under which regulator, which is why a visitor can drive between neighbouring states and find commercial resorts on one side of the line and no legal gaming floor on the other. Nevada and New Jersey built the two oldest commercial markets; Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Michigan and a dozen other states licensed casinos later, often as a revenue measure.
A second, parallel system covers tribal gaming. The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 allows federally recognised tribes to operate casinos on tribal land under compacts negotiated with their state, and several of the largest gaming floors in the country are tribal properties in Connecticut, Oklahoma and southern California. Rules that visitors notice most — smoking, drink service, minimum age and whether sports betting is offered — are set at state or tribal level rather than nationally.
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Continent | North America | |
| Currency on the floor | US dollar (USD) | |
| Minimum age | 21 in most commercial jurisdictions; 18 at some tribal and charitable venues | estimate |
| Regulator | State gaming boards and commissions; tribal gaming overseen by the National Indian Gaming Commission | documented |
Entry ages and regulator names are summarised for orientation and are not legal advice. See gambling age and entry rules around the world.
Regions and destinations
Venues recorded here
Caesars Palace
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
1,300 slots185 tables20 poker3,900 rooms
Caesars Palace opened in 1966 and is the oldest of the large themed resorts still trading on the Strip. Its Roman scheme was unusual at the time for…
The Venetian Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
1,900 slots230 tables25 poker7,000 rooms
The Venetian opened in 1999 on the site of the Sands, and was conceived around convention business as much as leisure: the attached Sands Expo and…
Wynn Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
1,800 slots230 tables28 poker4,700 rooms
Wynn Las Vegas opened in 2005 on the former Desert Inn golf course at the north end of the Strip, and broke with the themed-resort convention that…
MGM Grand Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
2,000 slots160 tables12 poker6,800 rooms
MGM Grand opened in 1993 as the largest hotel in the world at the time, at the corner of the Strip and Tropicana Avenue. The original Wizard of Oz…
Aria Resort & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
1,700 slots145 tables24 poker4,000 rooms
Aria opened in 2009 as the centrepiece of CityCenter, a mixed-use development of hotels, residences and retail built on a single Strip block. It was…
Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
2,500 slots180 tables35 poker2,800 rooms
Borgata opened in 2003 in the Marina district, away from the Boardwalk, and immediately became the revenue leader in Atlantic City — a position it…
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Ledyard & Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
3,400 slots250 tables30 poker2,200 rooms
Foxwoods is operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation in the woods of southeastern Connecticut. It began as a high-stakes bingo hall in 1986…
Mandalay Bay
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
1,200 slots70 tables10 poker4,700 rooms
Mandalay Bay opened in 1999 at the southern end of the Strip and is built around non-gaming volume: a convention centre of more than two million…
Mohegan Sun
Ledyard & Uncasville, Connecticut, United States
3,000 slots230 tables25 poker1,600 rooms
Mohegan Sun opened in 1996 on the Thames River at Uncasville, nine miles from Foxwoods, and was expanded in 2001 with a second casino and a hotel…
WinStar World Casino & Resort
Thackerville & Durant, Oklahoma, United States
8,500 slots100 tables46 poker1,400 rooms
WinStar, operated by the Chickasaw Nation at Thackerville on Interstate 35, is routinely described as the largest casino in the world by gaming floor…
Resorts World Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
1,400 slots120 tables3,500 rooms
Resorts World opened in 2021 on the site of the Stardust, the first new resort built from the ground up on the Strip in a decade. It houses three…
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood
Hollywood & Tampa, Florida, United States
3,100 slots230 tables45 poker1,270 rooms
The Seminole Tribe of Florida's Hollywood property was rebuilt in 2019 around a 450-foot hotel tower shaped like a guitar, which has become a…
Golden Nugget Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
1,100 slots85 tables10 poker2,400 rooms
The Golden Nugget has operated on Fremont Street since 1946 and is the largest casino in downtown Las Vegas. It was rebuilt in stages from the 1970s…
Pechanga Resort Casino
Temecula & Highland, California, United States
4,800 slots150 tables38 poker1,090 rooms
Pechanga, operated by the Pechanga Band of Indians at Temecula in Riverside County, is among the largest casinos in the western United States by…
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City
Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
2,000 slots120 tables20 poker2,000 rooms
Hard Rock took over the former Trump Taj Mahal, which closed in 2016, and reopened the Boardwalk property in 2018 after a substantial refurbishment…
Yaamava’ Resort & Casino
Temecula & Highland, California, United States
6,500 slots130 tables20 poker430 rooms
Yaamava', operated by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians at Highland in San Bernardino County, carries one of the largest machine inventories in…
Beau Rivage Resort & Casino
Biloxi, Mississippi, United States
1,800 slots85 tables16 poker1,740 rooms
Beau Rivage opened in 1999 on the Biloxi beachfront and is the largest property on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It was built to a Las Vegas standard…
Luxor Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
900 slots45 tables4,400 rooms
Luxor opened in 1993 as a thirty-storey black glass pyramid with a sphinx at the entrance and a xenon beam projected from the apex. Guest rooms line…
Choctaw Casino & Resort Durant
Thackerville & Durant, Oklahoma, United States
7,400 slots85 tables20 poker1,600 rooms
The Choctaw Nation's Durant property is the second of the two large Oklahoma resorts serving north Texas, ninety minutes from Dallas on US 69. A…
Ocean Casino Resort
Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
1,900 slots110 tables12 poker1,400 rooms
Ocean Casino Resort occupies the building constructed as Revel, which opened in 2012, closed after two years and stood empty until 2018. The tower is…
Parx Casino
Philadelphia & Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, United States
3,300 slots180 tables48 poker
Parx is the highest-grossing casino in Pennsylvania, built at the Philadelphia Park racetrack in Bensalem, twenty miles north-east of the city…
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa
Hollywood & Tampa, Florida, United States
5,000 slots180 tables46 poker800 rooms
The Tampa property serves central Florida from a site east of the city near Interstate 4, and was expanded in 2019 with additional gaming space, a…
Grand Sierra Resort
Reno, Nevada, United States
900 slots50 tables8 poker1,900 rooms
Grand Sierra Resort stands apart from the downtown Reno cluster on a large site east of the river, opened in 1978 as the MGM Grand Reno and renamed…