Winstar/Choctaw Resort vrs Shreveport-Bossier City
You made me start thinking about the cost of the commission/antes on Table game play.
The DFW area is the source of most of the players for the two casino on the OK/TX border and the Shreveport-Bossier City casinos. All you have to do is walk in the parking lots to see all the Texas plates.
To get to Shreveport is about a 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hour drive from DFW. Winstar/Choctaw Resort is about 3/4 to 1 3/4 hour drive from DFW.
So if somebody in DFW has this wild hankering to play BJ for a couple of hours, they can go to Oklahoma and probably play about 70 hands at a cost of $35 in Antes. Or they can drive an additional 4 hours total to not pay commissions.
Shreveport-Bossier City does have Dice, if that is your vice.
They all have slots. They all have poker. I do not know how the casinos compare on this, since I do not do either.
They all have video poker. At the moment the two OK casinos are much better than the Horseshoe (the only one I ever go to) in Bossier City. The OK casinos have progressive royal machines with at least 9/6 JOB.
I can see why the Winstar/Choctaw casinos are contiuing to expand while the Shreveport-Bossier City seems to be stuck.
Larry