Casino Arizona will give away more than $85,000 in promotions this July.

Cash giveaways plus food and beverage specials are all part of Casino Arizona’s “Celebration of 7’s” July players club promotion.  Players can earn electronic entries from now through July 27th by playing slots, table games or keno. For every 50 points you earn, using your Player Rewards Card, you’ll earn one entry into the drawings. You can also earn an entry for signing up for a PRC card (if you aren’t a member) or you can earn an entry by going to the Player Rewards Club desk and updating your information.

Drawings for cash prizes of $777 will be held Mondays in July at the Casino AZ Salt River location, 101 and McKellips, and Tuesdays this month at the new Talking Stick Casino and Resort at the 101 and Indian Bend.  There will be 14 winners each day with drawing times as follows:  Mornings — 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9, 9:30 and 10 a.m.  Evenings — Every half hour from 7 p.m. until the last drawing at 10 p.m.  That’s more than $10,000 up for grabs at each location per week!

Food and drink specials are also part of the promo with $7.77 breakfasts and dinners on Mondays at the McKellips Road Casino Arizona and $7.77 breakfast specials at The Wandering Horse buffet and Blue Coyote Cafe at the new casino at Talking Stick.

Also, players will earn 7X points on their players club cards every Wednesday this month.  This popular promotion — point multiplier days at Casino Arizona – rewards players for slots, cards and Keno play.

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Beat the Field is just one of the many fun new slot machines at Casino Arizona's recently-opened Talking Stick resort.

Casino Arizona’s posh new Talking Stick gaming and resort property is shaping up to be Scottsdale’s newest go-to gambling destination.  The 240,000 square foot gaming area plus the resort’s many restaurants and the live entertainment showroom are now open at the Loop 101 and Indian Bend location.  The hotel portion of Talking Stick  has struggled to open and is — at this writing — still awaiting final occupancy approvals.  A recent visit to the new casino near Phoenix showed continuing construction on the hotel with the outdoor pool and spa area looking far from completion.  We found out by phone that casino staffers are taking reservations for hotel rooms beginning July 1 and gave a mid-August date for the pools to be open to guests.

We’ve made several visits to this newest Arizona casino and found both pluses and minuses to the property.  Here are some of our observations beginning with the most important part of any casino — the gaming!

Gaming at Talking Stick

Machine Selection — There is a huge variety of both flashy new games — think Sex and the City with Mr. Big as your host — and old customer favorites on the Talking Stick floor.  Some of the hottest slot machines on the market can be found here.  You can play a game new to Arizona, Monopoly™ Planet Go™, where the beloved Mr. Moneybags encounters aliens and other space-themed icons.  There is also the community-based horse racing slot game, “Beat the Field,” which I recently saw hit for a $1,136.19 progressive.  Not bad for a 2¢ game!

Other new slot machines include a  “Life of Luxury” progressive plus slot game “Great Wall” which offers players a progressive that pays in free games. Talking Stick visitors will also find machines based on popular TV shows such as “Happy Days,” “Stargate SG-1” and the aforementioned “Sex and the City” with its four-game screen filled with colorful icons depicting stiletto heels, posh cocktails and of course, the gorgeous stars of the hit show.  Be sure to check out all the floor-wide progressive games, too.  A busy High Limit room rounds out the gaming area.

Poker – The new Poker room maintains its status as the largest in Arizona.  The state-of-the-art room features fifty tables to accommodate players of Texas Hold ‘Em, Seven Card Stud and Omaha Hi-Lo as well as a full schedule of poker tournaments and events.

Table Games — More than 50 tables of Blackjack, Three Card Poker, Let Ride and Lucky Ladies are dealt around the clock. Casino War is also available at Talking Stick.

Video Poker — They’ve taken out our (and many other players!) favorite games:  nickel Spin Poker Deluxe and Fifty Play poker.  (You’ll find lots of the Spin Poker “regulars” now playing at Casino Arizona at Salt River.) They’ve added All-Star Poker with its menu of games such as Chase the Royal and Super Times Pay.  All Star machines include a Spin Poker game but the denomination here starts at 10¢ and playable lines are maxed out at nine.  Pay tables on all the games we saw left a lot to be desired as well.  Also, it was disappointing to see that free play bucks — or as the casino calls it “Power Percs” credits — are not accepted on All Star machines.

Keno — There is a small Keno lounge conveniently located near casual restaurant, the Black Fig, and a circular sports-themed bar.

More to come on the new Casino Arizona at Talking Stick including a review of our yummy lunch from the Black Fig. Have you been to the new casino and if so, what is your take on it?

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We just received our newest mailers from Fort McDowell Casino and noticed that this new **expanded** mailer includes our club member offers and news of upcoming special events for not only February but also for the month of March.  (Former mailers contained only one month’s info at a time.)  The colorful piece includes coupons for dinners and buffets plus lots of special bingo coupons for the casino’s well-attended Bingo Hall as well as news on upcoming giveaways and other events.

This same six-panel mailer included info on our free slotplay offers for February and March under the “Crown Credits” heading.  According to the promo piece, the weekly Crown Credits “go in every Monday morning at 12:01 a.m. and expire on Thursday nights at 11:59 p.m.  These credits automatically are on your card and you don’t need a coupon.”

To get great offers in the mail from Fort McDowell Casino and other area casinos, be sure to ALWAYS get a players club card and ALWAYS use the card while playing your favorite games.

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Six chances to win the $250,000 will be awarded during special drawings held throughout the month with the event culminating in an actual game show hosted by long-time TV host and personality, Bob Eubanks. Eubanks, most known for hosting “The Newlywed Game,” will be on hand to give away cash and prizes during the event’s double-header finale at Casino Arizona’s Showroom at the McKellips Road and Loop 101 location.

All the details can be found at the casino’s website, Casino Arizona.com, or by visiting the players club desk at either casino location.

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Go for the day or stay overnight at the Apache Gold Casino near Globe, Arizona.

There are some hidden gems to be found in Arizona casino gaming — casinos that make getting there half the fun.  One of the spots most worth discovering for adventurous gamers is the Apache Gold Casino located five miles east of Globe on Highway 70 on the San Carlos Indian Reservation.

The trip takes about two hours from Phoenix if you plan on driving straight through to the casino but you definitely want to include some fun stops and detours along the way.  One of the nicest side trips to make is a visit to the Boyce Thompson Arboretum located on Highway 60 near the historic copper mining town of Superior.

The Arboretum features beautiful gardens with more than 3,200 different desert plants, most of which can be seen along the 1.5 mile main trail.  In addition to the vast and varied Sonoran Desert gardens, visitors can also admire the Arboretum’s African, South American, Asian and Mediterranean plant collections.  (Our personal favorites are the fascinating cactus garden — more than 800 species of cactus! –  and the towering eucalyptus forests.)  Also, a gift and plant shop is available for souvenirs and garden goodies.  Have questions about the plants for sale or how best to grow them in your garden?  The Arboretum staff willingly and knowledgeably answers all your questions.

After your garden visit, the next stop is in Globe where you head for Broad Street and the Copper Spike Railroad for your trip to the casino.  Yes, you’ll be arriving at the casino by train!  Named for the copper mining region served by the railway, the Copper Spike departs Thursdays through Sundays from the original two-story depot built in 1916 and travels to the Apache Gold Casino Resort . The 25-minute excursion follows the same route that once brought travelers to the “Land of the Apache,” nearly 100 years ago as they traveled from New Orleans to Los Angeles.  (The train runs until May 3 and is then closed for the summer so hurry if you want to do it this season!)

Once you reach the casino — by car or train — you’ll find more than 600 slot games and video poker machines, Blackjack, keno and bingo.  There’s also an 18-hole golf course — the scenic Apache Stronghold Course — plus a 140-room hotel and an RV park.

And, like we said, getting there is half the fun!

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