Tribal casinos in Oregon

Has anyone been to Chinook Winds or Spirit Mountain in Oregon? Does either have decent video poker? 

Spirit Mountain has relatively few VP machines--they used to have far more--and what they do have is mediocre. You can find Airport Deuces and a few 8/5 Bonus. The players' club is terrible, with a base return of 0.05% and very few decent promos.

Chinook Winds is a little better, with abourt the same quality of VP (< 99%) but more machines. The players' club is a little better than Spirit Mountain's, but not great. Mediocre promos.

In general, Chinook Winds, in order to induce players to drivr another half hour from Portland, offers better deals and has better games than Spirit Mountain. The latter has turned itself into an overpriced slot joint.

I wouldn't recommend the food at either place--mediocre and expensive. At SM, you have no options--there's no civilization nearby --but at CW, you're in Lincoln City and have lots of dining choices.

Frankly, I wouldn't bother to visit either place. If I were going to drive out to Lincoln City, I'd spend my time at the beach and exploring the town.

Both casinos are pretty smoky but do have nonsmoking areas with VP.

Oh, and you didn't ask, but don't go within five miles of Ilani, north of Portland. Like most of Washington's casinos, they only have fake VP--non-randon lottery terminals disguised as VP machines.

Yeah. I live in Washington state and hate that we don't have any video poker. 

I was in Lincoln City back in 2017ish for an eclipse. It was a cool town. A friend of min used to have access to a small beach house there. 

Sadly, in the PNW, we're not within screaming distance of any decent video poker. The best shot was Warm Springs, a couple of hours east of Portland, but I haven't been there in a while so I don't know what their inventory is like now.

Silver lining: Reno now has the best VP in the country and is an easy airline trip away.

When you go to Reno do you tend to stay downtown or do you go to the other resorts like Grand Sierra or Atlantis? 

Stay: depends on prices, but usually, downtown. I have stayed in Sparks at the Nugget or MGM Grand Sierra on occasion as they do have some good VP and their room offers are generous. Western Village's rooms are surprisingly nice and a relative bargain. A Peppermill-style coffee shop, a sports book, and a decent amount of good VP such as low-limit NSUD. They used to have the best blackjack games in Nevada but recently removed all their table games 

I play a lot at both Atlantis and Peppermill, but they aren't cheap and their room offers suck, so I rarely stay there even though the Peppermill has the comfiest rooms in Reno and Atlantis has really good food. Both places' players' clubs are a sick joke. Fullpay VP earns next to nothing.

As Reno is an actual city as opposed to Vegas, which is still pretty much a bunch of casinos surrounded by trailer parks and McMansions, I like to explore neighborhoods and have run across quite a few terrific restaurants. So staying out in Sparks facilitates that.

I would recommend that a new visitor stay downtown at one of the CET triad of properties that are physically connected: Silver Legacy/Eldorado/Circus Circus. It's nice to be able to use interior connecting walkways when the weather outside stinks.

Yeah. I have been to Reno a couple times in the last 10 years or so. Stayed at "the row" both times. First time at silver legacy second time at El Dorado. 

I don't know if it's still happening now but when I went last October the room comps were quite generous. I am a very minor casual player. It was offering me up to five nights free with no resort fee only had to pay taxes. It was also for the "premium" rooms or whatever they call slightly upgraded tier. The discounts on suites were all so quite sizeable.  I'm a very minor casual player. I do have the Caesar's credit card.(It had an introductory offer that was hard to turn down)