Your tournament venue is a fixed point, not a moving target
The D Las Vegas sits 0.1 miles straight-line from the Las Vegas city reference point. That is a great-circle measurement, not a road figure. The moment you plan an actual trip, road distance will be longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time for any pairing.
A slot tournament entry is tied to a specific building. The building does not move. Your starting point does. So the useful question is not "how far is Vegas" but "how far is this documented venue from a reference point I can measure against."
This article covers the downtown cluster where several documented venues sit within a few tenths of a mile of one another. It does not cover tournament schedules, entry mechanics, or prize structures, because no such facts are supplied here and those change constantly. What follows is the fixed geographic layer.
Documented straight-line distances from the Las Vegas reference point
Every figure below is a great-circle distance between documented coordinates. None of them is a road distance. Use them to understand relative position, not to estimate a drive.
| Reference point | Straight-line miles | Measurement type |
|---|---|---|
| D Las Vegas | 0.1 | great-circle |
| Four Queens | 0.2 | great-circle |
| Horseshoe | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Golden Nugget Las Vegas | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Binion's | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Golden Gate | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Main Street | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Main Street Station | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Stratosphere Tower | 1.7 | great-circle |
| Jerry's Nugget | 1.7 | great-circle |
The documented set measures 318 venues to this city reference point. That is a count of what this file records, not a census of every casino in Las Vegas. For a complete current list, the Nevada gaming regulator is the authoritative channel.
Why straight-line and road distance diverge
A great-circle line ignores everything on the ground. Roads do not. The difference between the two grows with terrain, water, the shape of the street grid, and political boundaries.
In downtown Las Vegas, the street grid is dense and regular, so short straight-line gaps often translate to only modestly longer walking or driving routes. But that changes as soon as a route crosses an interstate, a wash, or leaves the incorporated grid. A venue 1.7 miles straight-line away can sit behind a very different set of road choices than one 0.3 miles away.
Crossing a city boundary or a county line can also force a route onto a limited set of arterial roads. The straight-line figure does not know about any of that. It only knows the two coordinate pairs.
Where these venues sit
The documented venues cluster at the eastern end of the Fremont Street corridor in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Coordinates place the cluster just north and east of the city reference point, with the D Las Vegas at approximately 36.1697, -115.1428 and Four Queens a fraction of a minute west.
Las Vegas sits in southern Nevada, near the state's border with Arizona and California. The city reference point is at 36.1692, -115.1406. From that fixed point, the documented venues spread outward in a tight downtown cluster, with Stratosphere Tower and Jerry's Nugget farther out at 1.7 straight-line miles.
None of this tells you which venue hosts a tournament on a given day. It tells you which buildings are close enough to walk between, which matters if you are weighing a tournament entry at one property against a room at another.
If your question is "near me"
The phrase "near me" cannot be resolved from a fixed venue file. Your location is a variable. The venue's location is a constant. So the article is structured around the constant.
To measure from your own starting point, take the venue's documented coordinates and your own coordinates, then compute the great-circle distance with any standard formula or tool. That gives you a straight-line figure comparable to the ones in the table above. It will not give you driving distance, and it should not be used to estimate travel time.
If the pairing you want is not in the table, this article cannot measure that specific segment. The only pairings documented here are the ones listed. Any other city-to-venue pairing is outside what this file records.
What to confirm before you go
Tournament entry is a live, property-specific matter. Before you travel, confirm directly with the venue's own published channels: the tournament desk, the players club counter, or the property's official events page. These are the only places where the current answer lives.
Confirm whether entry is open to walk-ups or requires a players club card, whether there is a buy-in or a free-roll structure, how many sessions run per day, and what the prize pool is. None of those figures are in this article because they change and they are not documented here.
Also confirm the venue's current operating status and any age or identification requirements. A tournament at a downtown property may have different entry mechanics than one at a resort corridor property, and the only reliable source is the property itself.
FAQ
Does this article tell me how to enter a Vegas slot tournament?
No. This article maps the fixed geographic positions of documented downtown venues and the straight-line distances between them and the city reference point. It does not cover entry mechanics, buy-ins, session times, or prize structures. Those are live, property-specific details you confirm with the tournament desk or players club at the venue you are considering.
Why is the distance listed as straight-line instead of driving miles?
Because the only distances documented in this file are great-circle measurements between coordinate pairs. Road distance depends on route, traffic, construction, and boundary crossings, none of which are documented here. A straight-line figure is honest and fixed; a driving figure would be an estimate. This article deliberately does not publish road mileage or travel time.
Which of these venues is closest to the Las Vegas city center?
By the documented straight-line figures, The D Las Vegas is closest at 0.1 miles, followed by Four Queens at 0.2 miles, then Horseshoe, Golden Nugget Las Vegas, and Binion's each at 0.3 miles. These are great-circle measurements, not walking or driving distances. Closeness in a straight line does not guarantee the shortest walk or drive.
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