Sports Books
Suncoast Race and Sports Book |
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Suncoast Race and Sports Book Details
- Hours of operation: Open daily, 6 a.m. - 4 a.m.
- Payment options: Cash (casino chips and checks upon request).
- Location: On the main casino floor inside the Suncoast, next to the movie theaters.
- Type of betting offered: Daily lines (straight bets, money lines and totals), teasers, parlays, futures, boxing, NASCAR, golf, tennis and overnight lines.
- Number of televisions: 28 in the sports and race book area, 14 in the sports lounge, as well as additional televisions in the bar area.
- Big screens: 28.
- Largest TV: 6 foot by 6 foot.
- Food and drinks: Drinks available. Also nearby, a hot dog cart and the Bagel Cafe Express.
- Seating: 30 seats in the sports book, 120 seats in the race book.
- Race and sports book director / manager: Eddie Ricca.
- Lines posted: Overnight lines posted at 6 p.m. Adjusted morning lines posted at 8 a.m.
- Line originator: Coast Resorts corporate line.
- Betting service offered: Phone betting and pay-by-mail.
- Comps and specials: Drink tickets with sports wager. Free drinks in the race area. Food and show comps via a tracking system.
- Special events or contests: Super Bowl party, Monday Night Football party and March Madness events.
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Suncoast Race and Sports Book Review
In the middle of the desert, with nary a professional league sporting team to be found for miles, it can be pretty hard to replicate the experience of sitting at a ball park with hundreds of your new best friends, all cheering for the same thing - a win.
But the Suncoast race and sports book, while lacking the smell of the grass or the squeaky sound of sneakers on a court, comes close.
Located conveniently next to the movie theaters, the sports book offers a few of the comforts of your favorite arena - with slightly more comfortable chairs. Whether you choose to sit in the lounge, the bar or the actual book, you're guaranteed a seat more cushy than the metal slats that pass for seats at a stadium.
A hot dog cart just behind the book offers hot dogs for $1 -- a bargain considering the price of Dodger Dogs these days -- and a bagel shop just around the corner offers another option to refuel after some frantic cheering.
But it's not the food that makes the Suncoast's book such a unique place to be, it's the people. With Expo board standings for racing and electronic standings for sports, customers from the surrounding neighborhoods (and some folks just in the know) flock to the book at this off-Strip casino to cheer on their all-time favorite, or their favorite for the day.
A series of different-sized screens broadcast the action and even thousands miles away from Cleveland, it's comforting to watch the guy next to you cheer for the Indians, just the same as you. If you live in town, you may have just turned a neighbor into a friend, and if you're from out of town, well, you found a little slice of home right here in Vegas.
-- Review by Jamie Helmick
