New Hotel Opening at Angel of the Winds--Ribbon Cutting December 27

Having had a recent program from the Tulalip Casino, one from the Angel of the Winds, in light of its new hotel opening, was particularly appropriate.  Our speaker on December 4 was John Cronin who heads up the Casino's community relations department.  Here are the high-lights:

A new 125 room hotel is opening at the Angel of the Winds in a couple of weeks and reservations can be made now.  It supports itself with no gambling revenue needed.  It helps the casino by making it a destination place for those who will gamble.  John explained how the slot machines are really mechanical pull tabs with a built in win ratio that guarantees the casino 5 cents out of every dollar spent.  The other 95 cents are the payouts with more than one machine tied together.  John provided the two rules applicable to casino gambling:  The house always wins and you can’t beat the house.  The Angels of the Winds bills itself as the World’s  Friendliest casino and it works hard teaching its staff ways to live up to that claim.  He acknowledged that our 4-way test is similar to what the staff is taught.  He said that staff are taught to look you right in the eyes and call you by your first name and  to look for things to make you their friend.