Montbleu Resort Casino & Spa, Lake Tahoe, NV

7/18/13

I like the Sports Book here. Won a bet ON the Raiders last year that I placed here - that's hard to do. Lost a bet on the A's this year. Had fun both times.

On our recent visit we had some time to kill before eating at the buffet so our group of four split up and found machines to play on. My husband and I found the penny machines that we like so much and started with our $0.15 bets. My $10 went to $30 in a few minutes and a cocktail waitress took our drink order. It had only been about ten minutes and our pager rang for dinner. I had no problem cashing out at this point but husband had just gotten a bonus game, and our drinks weren't even back yet.

When Casey won the bonus game he got the max number of free games possible (25). While in the bonus game he got this a second time and won 25 more free games. And then it happened a third time. Getting the third win has only happened once before in all the times we've played. Neither time did we actually get the 25 bonus games for the last win. A woman sitting next to us told us she'd been a controller at a casino and insisted we call them to review the play. By this point our other two friends had taken the pager to the restaurant to check-in. Staff came over and examined every screen of the bonus games to confirm we'd won three times. That took a long time but at least we had our drinks by that point. In the end, they read the game instructions and you can only win up to 50 free games a spin, (explaining why we didn't get the last 25 free games). I went to our dinner table to wait and husband asked the staff if he could get anything for his time and they comped the price of his buffet. Pretty fair. Plus, he was up to $50 from his $10. We love these machines!

Buffet was good. Not incredible, but not horrible.  The name changed to "The Unbuffet" from "The Buffet" but it shows up different at the hostess counter and on receipts and their menu listing tonight's selections. So look for both if youre hungry.

Overall, this is a fun casino and it's in a great location.