Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel-casino in Ledyard, Connecticut, United States. It is the fourth largest hotel in the world, behind the Venetian in Macau, China the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut and Horseshoe Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, as measured by floor space for gaming, with .1 The entire resort comprises of space. The casino has over 380 gaming tables including blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker. There are over 7,400 slot machines, as well as a bingo room and keno parlor. There are several restaurants including a Hard Rock Cafe. Foxwoods has 1,416 hotel rooms and a two story arcade for children and teens.

History

Foxwoods was founded in 1986 as a bingo hall. The casino was financed by Lim Goh Tong, a Chinese Malaysian who founded the only legal casino in Malaysia. Tong passed away in October, 2007.

Baccarat

Typically a high-roller's game, Foxwoods offers both traditional Baccarat (Punto Banco style) where the players controls the cards, and a "Mini-Baccarat", where a dealer handles the cards. In both variants the casino banks the game.

Bingo parlor

Foxwoods holds bingo sessions twice daily, and the bingo hall can hold up to 5000 players. The hall features a large stage where the callers sit, smoking and non-smoking sections, video bingo terminals, a pizza vendor, pull tab sales booths, and soda fountains where players may drink as much soda as they wish. Players who win certain games will be allowed to go up on stage and spin a giant wheel with different amounts of money on it, or try to catch as much money as possible in a wind-tunnel-like structure called the "Money Machine".

Blackjack

Blackjack at Foxwoods is played with 6 or 8-deck shoes. All tables are hand-shuffled since the removal of the continuous shuffling machines several years back. The dealer must hit on all totals of 16 or less, and stand on all totals of 17 or more. Foxwoods offers late surrender, double downs on any card and splits up to 4 hands. Specially marked tables offer side bets, including Super Sevens and Match The Dealer. Table minimums start at $10, and on the main gaming areas go up to $25. In the high stakes casino above the Great Cedar Hotel, the tables start at $200 a hand.

A variant of Blackjack called Spanish 21 is also played.

Craps

Foxwoods is one of a growing number of casinos offering 3-4-5 times odds. On points of 6 or 8, players are allowed to make an odds bet equal to 5 times their pass/don't pass bet. Points of 5 or 9 allow a 4 times odds bet, and points of 4 or 10 allow a 3 times odds bet. A side effect of this rule is if the player takes the maximum odds the odds payout is always 6 times the pass line bet. Table minimums are usually $10 but can be as low as $5 during slower hours. As of early 2008, Foxwoods permits players to bet 5 times odds on all points in craps.