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My husband and I used to be regulars at San Manuel until the economy went bad and they got tight with their payouts. We used to enjoy playing the Red Hot Jackpot slots but apparently so do the thousands of other people that go there. It's virtually impossible to even get near these machines, much less play them. You would think that as popular as they are, they'd get at least another bank of these machines. We also stopped going because the cigarette/cigar smoke was just too much to take. It's horrendous. As soon as you walk into the casino, you can smell the stench of cigarette smoke. Although they have an upstairs and downstairs, unlike most well-run casinos who only allow smoking upstairs, San Manuel allows smoking in the entire casino, with only a small room with crappy slot machines designated as non-smoking. After only a few hours in the casino your hair and clothes reek of smoke even after you'd get home. Worse than the smell, however, were the health effects, sore thoat, cough, sneezing the would persist for days if not weeks. The slot machines I like to play are also right outside of the Poker Room where smoking is not allowed, so in-between games, the poker players loiter around the slot machines puffing away and are so desperate to get back into the poker room that many times they just stomp their cigarettes out on the carpeting. Even worse, on more than one occasion, these poker-playing jerks, unable or unwilling to make the effort to find an ashtray, put out their cigarette in my drink! You'd think with all the smokeless choices out there, San Manuel would just ban cigarette smoking altogether. OK, 'nuf on that subject.As far as the casino service and amenities, it's not bad, if you don't mind handing over your money with little if any chance of winning. They do have a very large selection of slot machines. They also have quite a few card tables (blackjack and poker) which my husband used to enjoy playing. I regularly play at most of the indian casinos around Southern California and most of them have better payouts than San Manuel. I would not recommend San Manuel.
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