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When I was a kid, it seemed as if there was only one place to go to find a casino, and that was Las Vegas.  But, over time, the world tends to change (and speed up a great deal, too!), and before you know it, there’s even a casino in the small town of fifteen hundred, in which I grew up.  You can find today casinos in just about every major city and state, from Nevada to New York.  If you’ve got the itch to gamble, and if others in your party want to see some great theater, New York City may be your best bet.

Obviously, New York offers a great many ways to place that bet — there’s casinos and race tracks, even casino cruise ships.  Native American Casinos make up the bulk of ways to play, allowing you to gamble from table games to video poker.  In most cases, though, make sure that everyone in your party is at least eighteen, but if you want to play in the largest of the casino hotels that New York state offers, you’ll have to make sure everyone is twenty-one (the largest hotel is the Seneca Niagara hotel and casino, a place that has slot machines numbering over three thousand, and about a hundred tables; the age limit applies to any Seneca casino).

The City itself, though, has a number of great casinos, some in hotels, some simply near hotels, that should meet your needs.  Sometimes, I travel with a friend who dislikes gambling, and so I’ll send her off to the nearest entertainment.  For New York City, that can be practically anywhere, but after a day of seeing the sights, from the Statue of Liberty to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she starts out at the Times Square Ticket Booths, where she can get half-off tickets for a show that same day or night.  Meanwhile, I’ll be checking out the Blackjack tables.  It’s a perfect arrangement.