These are a few of my favorite things...

In no particular order except for 1 being 1:

• Making my son giggle really hard
• Watching Gold Rush on Friday Nights
• Achieving the "Big Win" on Monopoly Slot Machines
• A real well done multi-mushroom pizza
• Flying on planes to my destination
• Flying on planes back home
• The feeling of a fall back 23 foot jumper while back pedaling backwards before it swooshes
• Rolling down the windows before it is officially spring
• Watching  "Finding Bigfoot", "Idiot Abroad"
• Having a solid 7 days in a row without being stressed out
• Watching the Stock Market go up
• Enjoying the days where the Lions and Tigers all win on the same day
• Researching vacation plans

Draymond Green, Future Piston?

I am the only one thinking Draymond Green of Michigan State would look great in Red White and Blue next season for your Detroit Pistons?? Come on, whose with me! A big man who can shoot a 23 footer?! Do it Dumars!

Kansas City Hollywood Casino Slots Review

Opening Night at the Kansas City Hollywood Casino at the Speedway was a packed night. Upon hearing that the line started forming at 3 pm, as directed by the fire marshall, the line wrapped outside in the parking garage. I heard accounts of waiting over an hour in line just to go inside. Inside, the openness with 2.5 floor ceilings gave something that all other Kansas City Casinos miss. The table games are aligned in the middle of the floor, 4 roulette wheels, multiple blackjack, and many other types at  10 and 25 dollar minimums. On a typical night, the gaming spacing would work, opening night-not so much.

Slots

Every Kansas City casino misses in this department, and we hoped that the Hollywood would deliver. Sadly, this is the breakdown of the slots from my eyes. These are the 'mainstay' slots that are big names and draw interest people to them with their multimedia bonuses.

4 Betty Boop (i've never seen before)
8 Mission Impossible (i've never seen before)
4 Wheel of Fortune*
8 Wizard of Oz (broken in two separate areas)
4 Hangover the Movie
4 Sex and the City
4 Monopoly (this was hugely disappointing, only 4! what a crock!)


What was surpremely disappointing...

0 Star Wars Machines
0 Indiana Jones Machines
0 Lord of the Rings
0 Price is Right
0 Top Gun


The lack of affordable Wheel of Fortune machines was pretty minimal. On the main floor, 4 machines are near the front. These are dollar machines, where each reel has a "spin" on it, to spin, you must get 3 in a row. There should be 50 cent Wheel machines and 25 cent machines scattered, but there are not. In the High Roller Slot area, there are 8 Wheel machines. We saw a person win 10,000 on a 5 dollar machine.

The lack of 'Big Name' slot machines with the huge crowds was sad and expected in some ways.

In comparison, 25 ct and 50 ct slots that are your typical reel slots, others in town seem more available.

In the Penny Slot land, there are your typical, Hee-Haw, Planet Moo-la, and many normal penny machines.

There are also a plethora of what I term 'crap'. Crap is regarded as a machine that is a basic computer monitor, with such themes as Western, Irish, and Greek. These machines are normally found to have older people who look sad and are smoking cigs while not giving much to the aesthetics.

Also, I did not see many if any slot machines that were hooked up to progressive jackpots. Who knows if that is by design or what, but machines like Star Wars in the Harrah's system are all hooked to a major monster jackpot. This being Penn Gaming, should have some type of hooked or aligned mega jackpot.

We didn't see any information tied to bonus point nights.


All in all, this place is really nice, clean, and beautiful. But Penn should realize that not everyone can play table games and wants a nice mix of big name slots and so far they have not delivered.

I won't give a full grade on this casino until I go on a night where the crowds are normalized.