However, three hotels do have respectably large casinos, similar in size to the average downtown Las Vegas property.Ĭustomer service is not as good in the Panama City casinos as what I am used to in the United States. In general, the larger hotels host their own casino, which is more like an amenity of the hotel, rather than the purpose of it, as in Vegas. While most of the casinos were centralized in the Cangrejo section in the center of the city, they were not clustered together like in Las Vegas, Reno or Atlantic City. What little video poker I found offered very poor pay tables. There are very few older, three-reel slots, video poker or video keno games. The vast majority of the slots are video reels. The larger casinos devote about the same square footage to table games as they do slots. I'll start with some generalities and then describe each casino I visited. While there, I managed to visit half the casinos, and all but one of the ones featuring table games. This blog entry is my report.Īccording to Latest Casino Bonuses, there are 18 casinos in Panama City, eight of which have table games while the rest are small and offer only slots. One of my objectives was to report on the gambling scene there. Last updated: FebruGambling Scene in Panamaīy the Wizard 13:40:14 (edited 11:43) Introductionīetween February 13-19, I visited Panama City.