I think it's lousy deal for the rest of us too. They are putting them in everywhere it seems. In Connecticut, there are two massive Indian-owned casinos. I just don't have the greatest experience there. The Foxwoods casino especially. It's kind of drab and looks sort of like a giant shopping mall with slot machines. The only thing I like about going there is in the winter, you can literally walk for miles inside of the place. It's a good place to get some exercise when it's cold and snowy outside.
Over at the Mohegan Sun (about 8 miles away) is another massive casino and this one at least has better food options and has some of that "Las Vegas" vibe to it. But those slots are also very, very tight. And the food is quite expensive. You can get some good walking done there as well.
Nothing beats Las Vegas however. I could spend days there and never see the same thing twice. What I like to do is walk from casino to casino (almost entirely indoors) from MGM to the Palazzo on one side, cross over, and then walk from Treasure Island to Mandalay Bay on the otherside. I avoid the Circus Circus as it's quite run down and some questionable characters hang out there. I do occasionally take a trip to the north side (Fremont Street Experience) - it's a little low rent but a fun place to grab some oversized margaritas and people watch as people chow down on things like fried oreo cookies and play the coin slots (which dispenses actual coins as jackpots instead of the ticket system everybody else uses).
Las Vegas is fun. Indian-run casinos are a weak alternative. At least that's been my experience.
***The federal government has pretty much given the Indians free reign to open casinos on their appointed lands, regardless of local laws elsewhere.***
They should open an annex to the casinos in California, New York, Colorado that sell “a-s-s-s-ault” rifles to the public!
I have several business trips to Vegas every year to attend tradeshows as an attendee, not as an exhibitor. Being from the East Coast, I love to get up at 5AM there, get a coffee and walk for two hours non-stop. I go in and out of casinos, walking through various mazes of connecting corridors and outside sidewalks. It is absolutely one of the most relaxing state of minds I achieve in life.
Then I go back to my room, do some work, go to the tradeshow until about 4, workout, eat dinner, gamble about 2 hours, go to bed about 9PM and repeat. Absolutely love it. One week in April/May and one week in September every year.