A lovely, friendly casino with a good selection of machines. Most 10/7 DB require $3 in for one point, but at the bar the 9/6 JoB award one point for $1. Breakfast buffet is excellent with the best omelet chef I've ever met (Manny, off Monday). Hotel is quiet but request a south-facing room away from I-15. wesroot

It has been many years since I went to the Showboat. I expected the property to appear run down, however it wasn't too bad. With help from a slot attendant, we found the JOB $0.25 machines down the steps and to the left just like in the description. It was a good night. I won on both VP and craps. We will be going again and staying later this month. I will look for the $1 JOB machines then. Finerflower

If you are from out of town and staying here, just make sure you are in a tower room as the court yard rooms are quite dodgy. I frequent the stand up 99% machines in front of the Cabo Bar, they are usually pretty active. Staff is great, always friendly. Its older overall but the new sports bar addition and removal of the Louie Anderson theater have really opened up providing more slant poker and slot machines in that area. Love the players club and monthly comps for locals. Great place to play Bingo too! Will always go back. JessicaLynn

Been playing practically exclusively at Santa Fe for the month of July now. The two main reasons are it's close proximety and very good pay tables and quick cocktail service. I find the ambiance better than fiesta and Texas station, cleaner, better quality patrons. Aliante casino is a close second but my luck (variance) is simply terrible over there. Feel safe, music not blaring. Machines good non-sticky buttons, clean screen, good speed. I'm mostly a quarter player but the machines I play on 99.9% of the time (over 100% payback) machines are relatively plentiful and havent' had a problem getting on a machine. My preference is FPDW (100.76), Loose Deuce (100.15), and 10/7 DDB (100.07). All these games are available in .25 denominations, but only DDB and DB on .50/$1 denominations. I have not been in the high limit area so do not know what they offer. I also enjoy playing on their 99.8 percent (approximate) machines when I want to play jacks or better (9/6). They have progressives but I haven't seen anything decent pay table wise for quarters. But for dollars, they have some decent machines (I know of a set near the 4949 lounge) currently at around 6400 for a royal. Haven't taken a real close look, but bonus poker and ddb seem to be the best percentage. This of course may change with time. On the over 100% payback machines, you must put in 12$ coin in to earn 3 points. Not great, but hey, there is no free lunch. After all, the games are over 100% payback. The 99.8% games I believe is $1 for 3 poins. I'll have to verify this and update later. So do you take 6 of 1 or half-dozen of the other? All in all, if you want a non-hassle experience playing strong paytables with relatively quick cocktail service, not super loud music, this is not a bad bet. Cheers dAAnmAAn

Does anyone know where they put the SDB machines that were in back to back (four) near Spin Poker towards back of casino???? dlh249