Two off-Strip casinos are among the happiest in the country, according to a new report.
South Point Hotel Casino & Spa ranked third and Palms Casino Resort finished 10th in a survey by Casinos.com that analyzed more than 830,000 TripAdvisor reviews from 108 casino resorts across the United States.
The rankings were based on how often reviewers used 20 luck- and reward-related terms, including “luck,” “jackpot,” “winning,” “big win” and “hand pay.” Casinos.com then applied a Bayesian adjustment to account for differences in review volume between properties.
South Point, which has long marketed itself as offering some of the best gaming odds in Las Vegas, received 318.64 tour mentions per 1,000 reviews. The property generated 6,562 TripAdvisor reviews included in the study, with 35.74 percent containing at least one of the selected keywords.
Only Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa and Parx Casino in Pennsylvania ranked higher.
Palms received 279.27 tour mentions per 1,000 reviews. More than 32 percent of the resort’s 4,548 reviews included one of the tour-related terms.
The report noted that South Point’s high volume of reviews helped boost its ranking after the statistical adjustment was applied. According to Casinos.com, the property moved from 30th in raw data to third overall when the number of reviews was factored into the rankings.
The study also highlighted Palm’s ownership of Yuhaaviatam in the San Manuel Nation, which also owns Yaamava’ Resort & Casino in Southern California, which came in seventh on the top 10 list.
No resort on the Las Vegas Strip made the top 10. In fact, five Strip resorts — Caesars Palace, Mandalay Bay, Excalibur, Bellagio and Luxor — rounded out the bottom of the list.
Casinos.com cautioned that the rankings do not measure actual payout percentages or probability of winning. Instead, they reflect how often visitors referred to luck, profit and related terms when writing online reviews. The company said the rankings are for entertainment purposes only and do not constitute betting advice.
The data was collected in April.
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