Foxwoods Resort Casino
At roughly 9 million square feet, Foxwoods is less a casino than a small city -- and somewhere in that sprawl are Buffalo Link, Dragon Link, and Ultimate Fire Link cabinets that have paid out publicly documented wins.
Foxwoods Resort Casino occupies roughly 9 million square feet on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation in Ledyard, Connecticut -- five separate casinos connected by internal walkways, feeding into a combined gaming floor of about 390,000 square feet with some 3,400 slot machines and more than 300 table games. Here's what's actually running on that floor, what the room feels like walking through it, and what's worth knowing before you sit down.
Slot Machines and Video Poker
Foxwoods leans hard into the multi-level 'link' cabinet family that dominates modern casino floors, and its own site lists Buffalo Link, Dragon Link, Ultimate Fire Link, and Huff N' Even More Puff among its current popular titles, alongside Phoenix Link. A casinos.com destination review adds Lightning Link and a standalone Buffalo cabinet -- distinct from the Buffalo Link variant -- to the mix. Dancing Drums shows up twice on the floor in different forms: the original Dancing Drums, confirmed on Foxwoods' own winners page, and Dancing Drums Explosion, a separate 243-Ways-to-Win cabinet named in a dedicated Foxwoods slots writeup. That same writeup points to a couple of older-style mechanical reels still in rotation, including Double Diamond Deluxe and Triple Dollar, for players who prefer a classic three-reel feel over a video-heavy bonus round. Asian-themed titles round things out: Fa Fa Fa Fortune leans on a wealth-and-prosperity theme from Aristocrat, while Autumn Moon and Crystal Star both appear on Foxwoods' own recent-winners feed. Video poker players have Ultimate X Poker and Quick Hit on the floor as well. None of this is a full inventory -- Foxwoods runs thousands of machines across its five casinos -- but it's a real cross-section of what's actually paying out and getting called out by the property itself and by outside reviewers, rather than a generic 'popular slots' list.
Table Games and the Poker Room
World Casino Directory counts more than 300 table games across Foxwoods' combined floors, and the Great Cedar Casino houses a specific standout: 'Play Arena,' an entertainment arena-style, multi-sensory space built for simultaneous baccarat, blackjack, craps, and roulette rather than the usual scattered pits. The newest addition to the property, Pequot Woodlands Casino, contributes over 430 of the resort's slot machines plus its own dedicated high-limit slot room. Poker runs out of the Fox Tower, where a 54-table room stays open from 8am to 2am Sunday through Thursday and until 4am on Fridays and Saturdays, equipped with Deckmate2 automatic shufflers and a USB port at every seat. The room isn't just cash games -- it runs daily No Limit Hold'em tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $135 up to $395, giving players a real choice between grinding a cash table and entering a structured event on any given day.
Layout, Decor, and Atmosphere
Foxwoods isn't one casino floor so much as five, linked by internal walkways, and each has a distinct look: some run polished hard floors under big circular light fixtures, others use patterned carpet with swirled neon. The Grand Pequot Casino serves as the property's central hub and stands out even among the five, built around a glass-domed ceiling that lets natural light spill into the gaming area -- a rarity for a casino floor, which usually avoids windows and skylights to keep players from tracking the time of day. The Rainmaker Casino stands out for going in a different direction entirely, built around indoor water features, tree displays, and waterfalls rather than a typical casino palette. Despite the size -- 9 million square feet across the whole property -- the resort is predominantly smoke-free, with smoking allowed only in designated areas, a notable departure from the smokier reputation regional casinos often carry. That scale cuts both ways: reviewers note the layout means genuinely long walks between some of the five casinos, so a machine or table you liked in one building may require a real hike to reach again.
History and Location
Foxwoods sits on the reservation of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, which gained federal recognition in 1983 after Congress overrode a veto from President Reagan, giving the tribe legal control of its land. The property didn't start as a casino at all -- it opened in 1986 as a high-stakes bingo hall. Table games followed in 1992, slot machines in 1993, and a poker room with a high-limit gaming area in 1995; the Grand Pequot Tower hotel opened in 1997. Financing for the tribe's expansion came in part through a partnership with Malaysian entrepreneur Lim Goh Tong, and a 1992 agreement with the state of Connecticut -- 25% of slot revenue paid to the state in exchange for gaming rights -- generated close to $200 million a year for Connecticut by 2007. Foxwoods once held the title of the world's largest casino before being overtaken by the Venetian Macau, and pre-2008 expansion debt eventually led to a default on more than $2 billion owed, a financial chapter that shaped the property well after its gaming floor had already become one of the largest in North America. That growth-by-stages history is also why the resort reads today as five distinct casinos rather than one unified design: each addition -- table games in 1992, slots in 1993, the Grand Pequot Tower in 1997, and Pequot Woodlands more recently still -- was built onto the last rather than planned as a single property from day one.
What to Know Before You Play
A few practical notes: the property is smoke-free outside of designated smoking areas, a real point of difference if you're used to smokier regional casinos. Budget real time to get between buildings -- five separate casinos connected by walkways means a machine or table in one wing can be a genuine walk from another. If you're chasing a specific title, know that Foxwoods runs both older mechanical-style reels (Double Diamond Deluxe, Triple Dollar) and newer link-family cabinets (Buffalo Link, Dragon Link, Lightning Link, Ultimate Fire Link, Phoenix Link) side by side, so the same 'family' of game can look different depending on which floor you're on. And if you're standing in front of a machine or table trying to decide whether it's worth playing, photographing it and asking 6-lab's Advisor is faster than guessing from memory.
Notable games on the floor
- Buffalo Link
- Dragon Link
- Ultimate Fire Link
- Huff N' Even More Puff
- Dancing Drums
- Quick Hit
- Ultimate X Poker
- Autumn Moon
- Crystal Star
- Phoenix Link
- Lightning Link
- Buffalo
- Double Diamond Deluxe
- Dancing Drums Explosion
- Triple Dollar
- Fa Fa Fa Fortune
Good to know
- Foxwoods is one of the largest resort casino complexes in North America, with a total property footprint of approximately 9 million square feet.
- The property features the Pequot Woodlands Casino, which includes over 430 slot machines and a dedicated high-limit slot room.
- The combined casino floors span roughly 390,000 square feet with about 3,400 slot machines and more than 300 table games.
- The Great Cedar Casino houses 'Play Arena,' an entertainment arena-style, multi-sensory gaming space for simultaneous baccarat, blackjack, craps, and roulette.
- The Fox Tower poker room runs 54 tables and is open 8am-2am Sunday through Thursday, until 4am Friday and Saturday, with Deckmate2 shufflers and USB ports at every seat.
- Foxwoods spans five separate casinos connected by internal walkways across roughly 340,000 square feet of gambling space, each floor with its own look -- from polished floors with big circular lighting to patterned carpets with swirled neon -- and the Rainmaker Casino built around indoor water features, tree displays, and waterfalls.
- The property is predominantly smoke-free, with smoking permitted only in designated areas.
- The poker room runs daily No Limit Hold'em tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $135 to $395.
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