Travel: Gambling in Canada’s Old Wild West

Way up in the northern region of the Yukon Territory there rests a small town victim of the gold rush, Dawson City. A long time ago in 1898, a miner struck rich with gold in a mine in Dawson City. Ever since the small forgotten town has said to bring gold fever even to its visitors.

In the early 1970s, a group of prospectors obtained a permit from the government and started nightly gambling off a local boat, the S.S. Keno which was parked on land. Even 40 yrs before then gambling was been big in Dawson City and it remains to be popular there until this day.

Right in the heart of the downtown of Dawson with its 100-year-old board sidewalks and unpaved dirt roads, there is a gambling establishment known as Diamond Tooth Gertie’s. Diamond Tooth Gertie’s was named after a dance hall queen or some might say a burlesque madam. Gertie got her name for wearing a big diamond in between her teeth. She became a very rich woman not from mining but from the prospectors she gave comfort to in their drunk and weary gold forsaken travels.

As the Yukon`s casinos Diamond Tooth, Gertie and 토토먹튀 really cash in. Not just from the locals but mostly tourists. For the traveling gambler, it is an interesting place to make a bet and is like a flashback in time to the wild west. With the historic costumes and original theater stage is it quite exquisite. The entertainment is classic gold rush humor and plays as well as a cancan dancer schedule that is sure to keep you in the gold rush spirit.

The cost of drinks ranges from 3-10 dollars and there is a 6 dollar cover charge at the door which is well worth the act these kooky “dawsonites” put on every day. They open around 2 in the afternoon on weekdays and 7 pm on weekends and stay open late until 2 am. Of course, this being a place of sin you must be at least 19 years of age to enter.

Other then a large amount of drinking that goes on in this small historic town there is even more gambling. A variety of card games and table games and slot machines can be found inside Gertie`s. With rows of slots ranging from a nickel to a toonie, there are plenty of games for the modern gambler. For everyone inspired by the old fashioned nature of this wild saloon, you can play some traditional gambling games such as roulette and blackjack. Whether you are just there for a glance or an annual poker tournament it will be your most memorable visit to a casino yet.

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