Ho-Chunk Gaming – Madison

I’m never a huge fan of Casino’s. Probably because I don’t gamble and find them to be a waste of time. However, my grandma loves them. And she was visiting, so I took her to Ho-​Chunk.
But I must say, that this was a decent place. Smoke free. Although yes, you can still smell the smoke in the carpet. And not too big that you get lost. I wouldn’t come here on my own, but would take my grandma again.

I took my 85-​year old Mom to Ho-​Chunk. She put $ 100 bill into a machine. It gave her a $ 5 credit. She immediately pushed the button for help. People came, but they had every excuse that they couldn’t check the machine. It ruined her evening. She so loves her little bit of fun gambling. This experience robbed her of that. I am furious! We will never return. I should have read the reviews for Ho-​chunk. Very bleak.

Ho-​Chunk: now smoke free! Mostly. While there’s no smoking allowed in doors anymore, the smell of smoke has seeped into the carpet, chairs, and whatever else is capable of holding a smell. It’s not overwhelming, but it definitely isn’t a fresh scent when you walk in the doors.
I had only been to Ho-​Chunk once before and we kept to the non-​smoking room. It was nice to be able to freely roam all of the slot machines this time and play whatever spoke to my friend — she is the true gambler between us. Unfortunately the machines were whispering «lose all your money» that day, but I fared a little better. To mix it up a bit I decided to put $ 5 in one of their non-​video slot machines and ended up coming out ahead $ 3.81. Whoop whoop! High roller!
I appreciated the free soda and the onion rings the grill was making smelled ridiculously good — since I’d eaten a giant breakfast of potatoes and pancakes, though, I decided to forego the deep fried goodness.
Tip for gambling newbies like me: to cash out, take your slip to the ATMs stationed around the playing floor — it’ll cash you out in addition to taking your card if you need cash for the machines when you arrive.

A «casino» with only slots is like an nfl game with only extra points but your kicker has a gimp leg and everyone in your huddle are old women in pajamas.

place is not as bad as others say they do have a non smoking play area and a smoking area more slots no card games mostly everyone plays the slots anyway café is just quick food who has to dress up to play some games lets keep it casual play a little extra cash ho chunk seems to be a little more generous then others

I enjoy casinos and playing blackjack, but this place is very smoky, depressing and degenerate. By the way, slots are the only games available… Enuf said.

Worst Casino I have seen. Depressing. Food stinks. They have a monopoly and it shows. Just a sad excuse for pathetic way of life. The Dells is only marginally better. Stay away.

Why this place has Class II slots I will never figure out, but it’s really hurting their reputation. These machines are actually aiding you in the playing of BINGO, and the graphics, bonuses, and theatrics are there for show. Each machine has a BINGO card on it, and when you hit «spin» that actually starts a game of BINGO. If you hit a BINGO, you win something (the amount depends on some other factor I’m not familiar with, but it doesn’t have clear logic behind it). If not, you don’t win. Sometimes 25+ bingo balls are drawn. Sometimes there’s less than 10. It’s really dumb and I can imagine the house advantage being close to 15% for these machines (normal slots run around 8%, with blackjack running 0.5%!). There is a poker room here (electronic poker) but I haven’t done that so I can’t comment on it.
The usual HCG free pop policy still holds here, and there are several machines located around the property. Because it’s technically BINGO, this casino is open to 18 year olds and up, and thus does NOT serve booze.
Unless there is some great promotion or a good band or something, I wouldn’t come here. It’s hard to win or even have fun when you see you hit a BINGO on the machine but only get 10% of your original bet back. Drive the extra hour up to the dells and play the tables or the real slots.

We were there only 15 minutes, and felt like our money was stolen. How can you play quarters, 3 credits, which is 75 cents but when you get a credit, you get 3 cents, or 10 cents or 18 cents? Isn’t a quarter a quarter? And how can you put in a 5 dollar bill in a quarter machine, hit play 1 credit, and only get to play 3 times and then be told you only have 15 cents left??? When we questioned this, we were told, it’s like «Bingo» if 2 people have the same card, you don’t both get the jackpot, you have to split it. What does Bingo have to do with slot machines? The woman telling us this, thinks we are stupid and we believed that crap, when actually, what a bunch of bull. We immediately left. We fell extremely ripped off!!!

I thought Ho-​Chunk was bad, this is even worse.
Where do I start? When I walked in the place, I was greeted by a gross stench of smoke and welfare. The clientele here look like depressed, down on their luck dejected humps as the gamble away the months last welfare and social security dimes. I’m no stranger to the gambling hall, but I’ve never seen so many pajama clad people in one place. Bring back the gambling of old!!! What happened to looking like you could afford to drop a few?
The slots are tight… so tight that I’d have a better chance being seen on the town w/​Mila Kunis before winning anything here.
The staff is useless as a broken compass. When the changer machine broke, I waited for nearly an hour to be helped. When I finally did get service, the employee was as personable as my soiled undershorts. How about a smile? Smiles make us forget how bad we’ve just been spanked.
If you like good food, don’t eat here. The prices are insane, and the taste is even worse. I paid 8 dollars for a piece of fish that resembled a lightly breaded carp, 3 french fries and a salad smaller than my wallet was after 2 hours in this place. «Free» soda is available. The Pepsi should be called «brown water» since the Ho-​Chunk likes to skimp on the syrup.
Comps? Just like DeJope’s big brother… None.
DeJope «a little Vegas in Madison» It would have been cheaper to fly to Vegas where at least I could drink and play more than computerized slots. More like «a little taste of ghetto gambling in Madison.»

I haven’t been to a lot of casinos, but it didn’t take much to figure out that this one is nothing special. If you want penny slots, this is your place. If you want video poker, any sort of table games, or anything else, keep looking, because you won’t find it here. The ENTIRE place is penny slots, dime slots, quarter slots, etc.