Montreal Casino
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The Casino de Montréal is a casino located on the Ile Notre-Dame in Montreal.
The casino consists of three buildings. Two of these, the French Pavilion and the Quebec Pavilion, were built for Expo 67. The third building is an annex built by the casino. The main building has five floors. There are over 3200 slot machines and over 120 gaming tables in the casino. The casino also contains four restaurants, four bars, a cabaret, and meeting and banquet facilities. The casino is somewhat unconventional as there are windows in many places, and low ceilings.
The casino is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to patrons aged 18 and older. It has been a non-smoking casino since July 2003, and the former smoking lounges were closed in May 2006 with the passing of a new provincial law. Alcoholic beverages are prohibited in the playing areas, and so are hats.
The casino's address is "1 avenue du Casino" ( ).
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[edit] Games
The following table games are offered:
- Blackjack
- Baccarat
- Roulette
- Touch Bet Roulette
- Caribbean Stud Poker
- Pai Gow Poker
- Grand Prix Poker (Let It Ride)
- Three card poker
- Craps
- Sic Bo
- Casino War
The casino also offers Royal Ascot electronic racetracks, two Keno lounges, tournaments and mini-tournaments, and a high limits gaming area and lounge.
[edit] Ownership
The casino is owned and operated by the Société des casinos du Québec, which also has 2 other casinos in the province of Quebec. The société is a subsidiary of Loto-Québec, a public corporation of the government of Quebec which raises revenue by the means of lotteries, bingos and other games of chance. All of the profits go directly to the government of Quebec.
[edit] Future plans
Loto-Québec wants to build a new $1-billion casino and entertainment complex on Peel Basin that would include a hotel and a site for the Cirque du Soleil. This places the casino within walking distance to residents in Pointe St-Charles, one of the highest poverty rate neighborhood in Canada. Community groups worry that the relocation will exacerbate the Pointe's prevalent social problems. The move is unwelcomed by Pointe residents, but they are cynical about how effective their voice are against Loto-Québec. The complex would open in 5 years, but still needs to be approved by the city and the provincial government, which could be done by 2007.
On March 10, 2006, Loto-Québec announced that it is abandoning plans to construct a new casino on Peel Basin due to a decision by Cirque du Soleil to pull their support of the project.[1]
[edit] Keno cheating scandal
In April of 1994, Daniel Corriveau managed to win $600,000 CAD playing the Casino de Montréal keno. He was able to pick 19 of the 20 winning numbers three times in a row. Corriveau claims he used a computer and Chaos Theory to discern a pattern in the sequence of numbers. It was later found that the sequence was made easier to predict because the Casino was using an inadequate electronic pseudorandom number generator. In fact, the electronic keno machine was reset every morning with the same seed number, producing the same sequence of numbers every day.
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