Where the notes begin
Each field note starts with the venue's own website: its hours, gaming, dining and contact pages. The guide reads these before anything else.
For rules that apply across the province, the guide turns to official bodies. AGLC covers regulation, age and casino rules. The Alberta iGaming Corporation keeps the directory of registered online sites. Calgary Transit provides station names.
Listing and directory sites are used only for basic details, such as an address, a phone number or a room count, when the venue's own pages do not give them. Opening hours and rules come from the venues and official bodies.
When the trail forks
Sources do not always agree. When two give different values, the guide leaves the number out or follows the venue's own page, and sends the reader to the venue to check. It does not average or guess.
This happens more often than one might expect. Published opening times for Cowboys Casino differ from source to source. The ACE Casino Airport site gives two versions of its Sunday hours on its own pages. In cases like these, the field note gives the venue's own published hours and sends the reader to the venue to confirm.
Open or closed on the home page
The open or closed marker on the field guide is calculated from each venue's published casino-floor hours, read in Mountain time, the time zone Calgary keeps. It is a calculation, not a live feed.
The marker does not reflect holiday closures, private events or changes made after the last check. Table games and poker rooms often keep separate hours from the main floor. Before a visit, especially an early one, the venue's own site is the final word. Morning hours sets out the published opening times side by side.
Distances
The distance shown next to each venue is a straight line from downtown Calgary, or from the neighbourhood the reader picks on the home page. It is measured across the map rather than along a route. It is not a driving or walking distance. Roads, river valleys and highway interchanges make most real trips longer. For routes by train or bus, see Without a car.
What the guide does not claim
The guide works only from published records. It has not visited the venues, telephoned them, interviewed staff or tested anything on a gaming floor, and the notes do not suggest otherwise. It neither accepts bets nor keeps accounts.
Gaps in the record are left as gaps. When a reader might expect a fact that no published record supports, such as parking rates or a dress code, the note says so plainly.
Last checked
The facts on this site were last checked in October 2026. When a fact carries its own date, the date appears with it, for example the launch of Alberta's regulated online market on July 13, 2026. Hours and floors change. If something here does not match a venue's own site, follow the venue's site.
More about who writes the guide is on About this guide. Support lines and self-exclusion are listed on Play safe.