2 March 2009

The casino gets a failing grade

| johnboy
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The all seeing eye has noticed an outsider’s view of our casino:

    the Entrance of the casino was sooooooooooooooooooooooooo superrrrr ??? can!

    gosh. unlike the grand entrance of Starcity… Casino of Canberra.. look.soo.. dodgy!

    even the carpark is rather empty! gosh!

    i was still worried that i wld gt lost coz i forgt to bring my phone.

    we took like 10 mins to find the stupid entrance. – which is very far away frm the carpark .. n hidden!

    faint!

    n.. the.. casino.. is.. a freaking… conventional hall!

    seriously! .. tts it????

    OMG. ONE barrcarat table!!! TWO pontoon table… n 2 blackjack tables.. some poker table. n erm. some other random tables. TTS ABT IT!

    wtf!

So is it just what one would expect for a city of 300,000 people who are mostly able to figure out the odds of winning in a casino?

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I know i expected more the first time i went to our casino after seeing all the fancy ones on TV!

And the funny thing is that drug dealer gambled 1 million dollars though there in a few months and thought he wouldn’t get noticed haha

Felix the Cat7:47 pm 02 Mar 09

Primal said :

I took some visiting friends past the place for a quick look one day, and despite our sub-par attire the guy at the door was happy for us to wander inside. Not what I’d call an inspiring venue by any means.

I posted in another thread a few weeks ago that I briefly visited the Casino on NYE with some interstate friends and was amazed by the slack dress code. The place was full of bogans with ‘Megadeath’ type t-shirts and faded jeans. They do need more than one bar, service was slow, more to do with the volume of people (and the fact that people seemed to think the bar was a place stop and talk – if you aren’t buying drinks find somewhere else to chat), rather than the slow staff.

oh my god.

captainwhorebags said :

One of my co-workers did a stint there years ago as a croupier and assures me that the casino exists primarily for the local Asian diplomatic community.

Yeah that doesn’t surprise me.

Yeah been there a couple of times. It kinda feels like a dodgy back room, plus they failed casino building 101 – the exit is easily to find.

Failed x2 if the entrance is as hard for stupid people to find as the original post suggests.

captainwhorebags4:59 pm 02 Mar 09

One of my co-workers did a stint there years ago as a croupier and assures me that the casino exists primarily for the local Asian diplomatic community.

Yeah been there a couple of times. It kinda feels like a dodgy back room, plus they failed casino building 101 – the exit is easily to find.

Pretty sure I have been there twice. I remember because there were several years in between, and I’m pretty sure the place had not changed at all. Even down to the same middle aged Asian business men loosing their money at the tables.

I took some visiting friends past the place for a quick look one day, and despite our sub-par attire the guy at the door was happy for us to wander inside. Not what I’d call an inspiring venue by any means.

I am given to wonder what sort of impact the lack of pokies in the place has on its attraction to the more casual gambler.

I’ve lived in Canberra for 8 years now. Haven’t been tempted to go there yet.

proofpositive3:43 pm 02 Mar 09

Skidbladnir said :

Apparently RiotACT hates non-Western characters. ç

I knew it… confirmation that this site is racist!

Gungahlin Al3:19 pm 02 Mar 09

So this is how people communicate with each other now?

Yep. If they match your singlet.

Will the Casino let you in if you are wearing thongs?

I’m guessing that the database backing RiotACT is set to USASCII or similar. Anyway yeah the Canberra Casino is pretty damn unimpressive. Can’t really imagine James Bond dropping by.

Yeah it is pretty average. But damn, reading that was painful.

no to mention the service at the casino is a joke.. looks like the guys workin behind the bar have had one to many joints before work. it takes like half an hour for them to get through 10 people..

Americanberran2:20 pm 02 Mar 09

I contributed $200 to the cause.. wasn’t even offered water. Yup, nothing like losing.. and getting a parking bill, just when you thought you had left the scene of the crime.

Or my mac doesn’t.

Oh well.

I agree. The casino here is an absolute joke!
I would love to see it renovated and made a little more exciting.

Apparently RiotACT hates non-Western characters. ç

The ??? in your quoted section are ???, Jb.
Google Translate says they’re Chinese for inconspicuous.

Semi-literate is being a little generous I reckon. They are right though, it’s not much of a casino. I don’t mind visiting the odd casino when travelling, our own is probably the worst I’ve been in.

Pommy bastard1:52 pm 02 Mar 09

Anyone stupid enough to want to visit a casino, and especially someone who writes semi-litetrate screeds like the above, well… ” a fool and his money….”

What did he expect – Monte Carlo? Sun City? Vegas?

It’s Canberra – we like our casino to look like a library!

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