MotorCity Casino's Fixed Detroit Position and the Blackjack Question

The venue's fixed position, and what the blackjack question asks

MotorCity Casino Hotel is documented as sitting at latitude 42.339 and longitude -83.069 in Detroit, Michigan, and the straight-line distance from the venue to its own reference point is 0.0 miles. A reader asking whether the casino has blackjack is asking two separate things: what the venue's documented facility profile contains, and what is currently on the floor today. This article can answer the first from publicly published reference sources and can tell you exactly where the second answer lives.

The documented facility profile lists 59 table games and approximately 2,500 slot machines. The source material for those figures describes the complex in aggregate and does not break out individual game titles, so this article does not state that blackjack is or is not among the 59 tables. Table game mix changes as a property adjusts its floor, and the only authoritative current answer is the venue's own published table games page or a call to its guest services line.

What the fixed coordinates do give you is a stable way to think about the venue as a destination. The building does not move. Your starting point does. The rest of this article explains how to use the documented straight-line distances without mistaking them for road miles.

Straight-line distances to documented reference points

Every figure below is a great-circle measurement between the venue's documented coordinates and the coordinates of the named reference point. Great-circle distance is the shortest path across the surface of a sphere, not a route any car or train can follow. Road distance is always longer, and this article does not publish road mileage or travel time for any pair.

Why straight-line distance is not the trip you will make

A great-circle line ignores everything that makes a real journey longer. Water is the most obvious factor: Detroit sits on the Detroit River, and any route toward Windsor or points east must cross at a bridge or tunnel rather than following the geometric line. Road networks are the second factor: highways follow historical land divisions, city grids, and terrain, so even a short straight-line figure like the 1.3 miles to the Detroit reference point can translate into a meaningfully longer surface route.

State and international boundaries add another layer. The 207.2-mile straight-line figure to Toronto crosses an international border, and the actual crossing point is fixed by infrastructure rather than by the shortest geometric path. The same applies to pairs involving Niagara Falls, Buffalo, and other border-adjacent reference points. None of these complications appears in a great-circle number, which is why this article labels every figure as such and publishes no road mileage.

For a reader planning a trip, the practical move is to take the straight-line figure as a rough sense of scale, then obtain road distance from a mapping tool using your own starting address. The venue's coordinates are fixed; your route is not.

Where the venue sits and what its documented profile contains

MotorCity Casino Hotel is documented as located in Detroit, Michigan, United States, with an opening date of December 14, 1999. The coordinates place it within the city of Detroit, and the straight-line distances to nearby documented points bear that out: 1.2 miles to Ford Field and 1.5 miles to Greektown. Those figures are consistent with a venue in the central part of the city, though this article does not describe a neighborhood or street-level position beyond what the coordinates support.

The documented facility figures describe a property of substantial scale: approximately 2,500 slot machines, 59 table games, a 67,000-square-foot meeting and convention space component, and a hotel with 400 guest rooms. The source sentence also mentions a 100,000-square-foot casino and a live music theater with a documented capacity of 2,400 people. These figures come from publicly published reference sources and describe a documented point in time; properties are renovated, rebranded, and reconfigured, so the figures should be read as a profile rather than as a live inventory.

Ownership and branding of casino properties change through sales and rebrands, and facility counts are revised as buildings are expanded or floors are rearranged. The opening date and the documented facility profile are stable reference points; the current table game mix is not.

What to confirm before you go

If your trip depends on whether blackjack is currently offered, the venue's own published table games page is the authoritative channel. Ask specifically about the game type you want, because a property may spread different blackjack variants, side bets, and table minimums on different days or in different pits. The number of open tables also changes with demand and staffing.

Confirm the current table game list, the minimum and maximum bet for the game you want, whether the table is open at the hour you plan to arrive, and whether any tournament or special event changes the normal floor. The venue's guest services line can answer these questions directly, and the number is on the property's own contact page.

If you are traveling from outside Detroit, confirm your road route and border crossing requirements separately, because this article does not publish road mileage, travel time, or border documentation requirements. Your starting point determines all of that, and the venue's fixed coordinates are the only constant in the calculation.

FAQ

Does MotorCity Casino have blackjack?

The documented facility profile lists 59 table games but does not break out individual game titles, so this article does not state that blackjack is or is not among them. Table game mix changes over time. The authoritative current answer is the venue's own published table games page or its guest services line, which can confirm the game type, table minimums, and hours for the day you plan to visit.

How far is MotorCity Casino from Detroit?

The documented straight-line distance from the venue to the Detroit reference point is 1.3 miles, measured great-circle. That is not a road distance. A surface route within a dense urban area can be longer than the geometric line, and this article does not publish road mileage or travel time. Use a mapping tool with your exact starting address for a route-specific figure.

What is the closest documented reference point to MotorCity Casino?

The closest documented reference point is Ford Field at 1.2 straight-line miles, followed by the Detroit reference point at 1.3 miles and Greektown at 1.5 miles. All three are great-circle measurements between fixed coordinates. Actual road distance to any of these points depends on street layout, traffic, and your exact starting position, none of which this article measures.

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