I stopped by there today to check it out and thought that it was a nice location for visits.  Clean, new, plenty of free parking, right off 95 and the hotel prices are cheap!  Might be a good destination for those south of Tyson's.

Now that tax season is over, I've been trying to get a few buddies to go either to A/C, MGM....etc.....

Locally, MGM MD Live! just don't have it.  Plus since my days of regular table gaming (late 1990's), it just isn't fun anymore with the $50+ mins......  

I used to go to MGM around the NCAA Tourney time and watch  and booze it up with a few friends for an overnighter, but never met a provider.....  someone alluded to those places being tough, due to tons of security/cops and $$$$ room rates.  I imagine it would be tough for a gal to make it worth her while, unless she has a schedule lined up with booked appointments.  

A/C offers something these others don't.  If you're having a shitty time at one place, there's always another next door.  

I'm not at the level of getting a gal to go on an casino/hotel overnight.  Call me a piker/ small fry.......LOL

Maybe someday.....  !

the steak house is pretty good!  
Easy to get there. Nice rooms too.

The Rose is a nice place.  I've been there a few times.  However, it's not a regular casino.  To my understanding, casino gambling isn't legal in Virginia.  For that reason, there are no table games - only slots (and video poker).  But the machines work differently than machines in Vegas, A/C, MGM Live...  The machines at The Rose are called Historical Horse Racing (HHR) machines.  While casino gambling isn't legal, betting on horse racing is legal.  HHR machines look like regular slot machines but work in a completely different manner.  

On a regular slot machine, there is a random number generator (RNG) that cycles through millions of numbers per second.  The exact millisecond you initiate a spin on a slot machine, it reads the number produced by the RNG and that number determines the result of the spin.

On an HHR machine, you are actually betting on past horse races.  Before you initiate a spin, all of the identifying information about the races is hidden, so you are basically betting blindly on the races.  The best work along classic parimutuel odds.  The machine randomly picks bets for you, but you are free to change those bets and pick the races any way you want.  When you initiate a spin, you will see short animations of the races you're betting on at the top of the screen.  Rather than just telling you whether or not you won your bets and/or how much you won, the machine displays a slot spin that pays out the same amount that you won on your racing bet (or nothing, if you lose).

Interesting post, but don't tell the Danville, VA Caesar's that table games are illegal in VA. They have 79 per their website. Also, I believe their 1500 slots are in fact, RNG games. Going there next week and will verify.

My assumption about the legality of casino gambling in VA was wrong, but only partially.  According to Wikipedia, when the VA legislature approved casino gambling, they only approved it in 5 cities - Danville, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Richmond and Bristol (plus, those cities had to pass a local referendum allowing for gambling in their city).  So, casino gambling is legal in Danville, but it isn't legal in Dumfries (where The Rose is).  Of course, this could all change at any time, depending on the state legislature.

For the most part, the only reason to open an HHR facility is because casino gambling isn't legal.