Casino games compared: what Grey Eagle's floor has, and what other Canadian casinos offer

How to read this page

Grey Eagle's casino page describes slots, Ultimate Texas Hold'em, roulette, baccarat, craps, electronic Quartz Hybrid terminals and High Limit rooms, and mentions bingo. Below, each game gets three things: what this floor publishes about it, what the other casinos in our ranking publish, and how the game feels at the table. We leave out odds tips and systems on purpose. The house edge is a fixed property of each game, and the only reliable way to keep a casino evening affordable is to decide the spend before you walk in.

Hours and the floor at a glance

Slot machines

Grey Eagle's count depends on which page you read: 975+ on the casino page, 957 on the cards elsewhere on the site, "over 900" on the about page. Call it nine hundred and some. Denominations run, in the resort's words, from one-cent to 25-dollar machines, and the floor is open 24 hours. A non-smoking Slot Club near the Stage Bar has 3,000 sq ft of $1 machines, and the smoking High Limit room adds over 40 high-limit slots.

Elsewhere: Fallsview has over 3,200, Caesars Windsor over 2,000, River Cree 1,665, Lac-Leamy over 1,400, Charlevoix over 700, Stoney Nakoda over 300. Slots are the fastest game on any floor; a spin takes seconds, which is exactly why a time limit helps as much as a money limit.

Blackjack

Blackjack appears in Grey Eagle's High Limit rooms, with a $25 minimum and a $2,000 maximum there, and on the Quartz Hybrid electronic terminals. The main floor's table minimums are not published. Every casino on our list deals blackjack; it is the steadiest table game, with a dealer setting the pace and players making one decision per card. If you have never played, watch a few hands first: nobody minds an onlooker.

Roulette: one zero or two

Grey Eagle lists roulette on its floor and on Quartz Hybrid but does not publish which wheel it uses, and neither do most of its rivals. Look at the wheel. Roulette is one of the slowest games on the floor: a spin, a wait, a payout, and a crowd that gathers whenever someone has stacked chips on a single number.

Poker: house games and player games

There are two very different things called poker in a casino. Ultimate Texas Hold'em, which Grey Eagle features, is a table game: you play the dealer's hand, the house banks it and payouts are fixed. Real poker-room Hold'em pits players against each other; the casino takes a cut of each pot or an entry fee. Cash games let you sit down and leave when you like; tournaments have a fixed buy-in and run until one player holds every chip.

Grey Eagle's site mentions 4 poker tables on its summary cards without describing a poker room. If a poker room is the point of your trip, River Cree (14 tables) and Parq (a 24-hour room on Level 3) publish theirs clearly. Call Grey Eagle at (403) 385-3777 before you plan around it.

Baccarat and punto banco

Baccarat is the quickest card game to learn: bet on the banker, the player or a tie, and the dealer does the rest. At Grey Eagle it is dealt in both High Limit rooms, where minimum bets start at $10 and maximum aggregate bets reach $18,000; casino hosts can arrange other limits. The non-smoking High Limit tables room by the casino entrance has a private dining area. On the big urban floors (Parq, Fallsview) baccarat is usually the busiest table section.

Craps

Craps is the loud one: a long table, one shooter, a dozen people cheering the same roll. Grey Eagle deals it seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 3 a.m. It is less common than you might think; the Caesars Windsor fact sheet from 2023 calls its table the only live craps game in Ontario. If you want to learn, a weekday afternoon is the quiet time to ask the dealer to explain the layout.

Electronic tables and bingo

Quartz Hybrid terminals let one player switch between blackjack, baccarat and roulette on a screen, at their own pace and usually at lower stakes than the live tables. Lac-Leamy and Charlevoix list electronic gaming terminals of their own. Grey Eagle's casino page also mentions bingo but does not publish sessions or hours, so ask at Guest Services.

Smoking rules, room by room

• The non-smoking High Limit tables room sits by the casino entrance.
• The High Limit tables and slots room permits smoking.
• The Slot Club near the Stage Bar is non-smoking, and so is the Stage Bar itself.
• The Event Centre is non-smoking, including vapour and e-cigarettes.
• The expansion plan describes a designated, isolated smoking section once the new floor opens.