In general I avoid casinos, they’re not at all common in my state, NC, being only on the reservation of the Eastern Cherokee up in the Smokies. Vegas gives me the creeps, it’s fake like Disney but mobbed up with very evident hookers and any substance you’d care to abuse. No thanks. Atlantic City was the same way but worse before it collapsed. These sort of satellite casinos I really can’t speak for, it sounds galling, these things should remain on the res in my opinion. Cherokee gambling casinos to me is Harrah’s, not all that bad, they have sort of frequent gambler clubs, seems as if their regulars get rewarded/subsidized just enough to keep them coming back, and the one-armed bandits are honest enough to keep the complaints to a minimum. That’s all I know of it. I do have to say that I don’t quite get the attempts to portray the indians themselves as somehow dirty or trashy or what have you. I’ve got a fair amount of Eastern Cherokee in my ancestry, sure some of them were and are poor and ignorant. A middle class suburbanite aesthetic sense may be offended by their lack of landscaping or their collection of old cars, but as far as I know they’re decent folks by and large. So, watch it with that sort of thinking, a whole lot of us southerners have a bit of Cherokee, Creek or Choctaw in us, or legendarily do. You trash them you’re trashing some part of us as well.
Yes, there are hookers and drugs available there, no doubt. But you can probably get them in any sizable town in the USA. Unless you go looking for that kind of action, it's fairly transparent. Other than the Mexicans trying to hand you a sex pamphlet at every street corner, of course! Like in NYC, you just avoid eye contact and they leave you alone.