Location: Directly on the
Nevada/California border; 98 miles northeast of Sacramento and 58
miles southwest of Reno.
All Lake Tahoe casinos are open 24 hours and, unless
otherwise noted, offer: slots, video poker, blackjack, craps, and
roulette.
Some casinos also offer: sports book (SB), race book (RB),
Spanish 21 (S21), baccarat (B), mini-baccarat (MB), pai gow (PG),
poker (P), pai gow poker (PGP), Caribbean stud poker (CSP), let it
ride (LIR), three-card poker (TCP), sic bo (SIC), keno (K), big
6 wheel (B6) and bingo (BG). The minimum gambling age is 21.
Here’s information, as supplied by Nevada’s State Gaming
Control Board, showing the slot machine payback percentages for all
of the south shore casinos for the fiscal year beginning July 1,
2006 and ending June 30, 2007:
Denomination
Payback %
1˘ Slots
89.02
5˘ Slots
92.33
25˘ Slots
92.52
$1 Slots
94.41
$1 Megabucks
88.83
$5 Slots
95.02
$25 Slots
94.23
All Slots
93.02
And here’s that same information for the north shore
casinos:
Denomination
Payback %
1˘ Slots
91.37
5˘ Slots
91.90
25˘ Slots
93.93
$1 Slots
93.72
$1 Megabucks
87.55
$5 Slots
94.78
All Slots
94.27
These numbers reflect the percentage of money returned to the
players on each denomination of machine. All electronic machines
including slots, video poker and video keno are included in these
numbers.
Lake Tahoe Airport is located at the
south end of the basin. The next closest airport is in Reno with
regularly scheduled shuttle service by bus. Incline Village and
Crystal Bay are on the north shore of Lake Tahoe, while Stateline is
located on the south shore.
For South Lake Tahoe information call the Lake Tahoe Visitors
Authority at (800) AT-TAHOE and for North Lake Tahoe information
call the Incline Village/Crystal Bay Convention & Visitors
Authority at (800) GO-TAHOE.
Shown below is a list of all Lake Tahoe casinos.
Click on a casino name to see a page
of detailed information about that particular casino.
