The video poker I checked out wasn’t too bad. Games with a frenzy mode use sound in part to attract people, and on a new game like that no sound means people are likely to walk right by it.

No one was playing them when I was there, and I suspect that was in large part because the games were completely silent. But a note to Delaware Park – a game like that is supposed to use sound to attract players. Games I had recently seen at G2E, like Cashnado, were on the casino floor there. By comparison there were more older games upstairs, and in some areas they were still spaced out from the COVID-19 restrictions days, like they were ever so slowly unwinding that on the older machines. Many of the slots downstairs were new or fairly new games, and they appeared to be in the process of making room for more slots. They seem to be on some sort of replacement cycle. Delaware Park is smaller, but no slouch in the casino floor department, with more than 2,000 slots including a high limit area, but predominantly a vast library of penny slots. In some ways it reminds me of Empire City Casino, another racino with a two-story format. This property is interesting in that it’s a long, two-story facility. Instead, the focus here was on the casino and ancillary offerings like dining and bars, which makes sense. Given it’s effectively a racino – a casino attached to a racetrack – there’s less amenities and services than a regular casino resort, most notably the lack of any hotel or offerings that tend to be found at such a larger complex.

Both of my trips have been the evening before Thanksgiving, so I wasn’t able to experience everything it has to offer, but I’ve had a decently good time both times I’ve gone there. I recently got to take a return trip to the Casino at Delaware Park, located (perhaps obviously) in Delaware near some close family friends.

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