The Question Reddit Cannot Settle, and the Map That Is Fixed
No documented payout rate exists for any Las Vegas casino in the reference material behind this article, so no venue can be named as having the best slot payouts. What can be fixed is geography: the D Las Vegas sits 0.1 miles from the Las Vegas city reference point, measured straight-line (great-circle). Road distance is longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time for any route.
A Reddit thread asking which casino has the best slot payouts is asking for a number that changes, is not published per venue, and cannot be verified from any stable public source. The venues themselves are stable physical places with documented coordinates. That is what this article maps, so a reader can at least understand where the downtown properties sit relative to one another and to the city reference point.
Why a "Best Payouts" Ranking Cannot Be Built from Facts
Slot machine outcomes are governed by a fixed built-in house advantage that no method of play changes. A casino does not publish a single payout percentage that applies to every machine on its floor, and the figure a regulator may report is an aggregate across a reporting period, not a promise about the next spin. Any Reddit answer naming a specific casino is an anecdote, not a documented fact.
This article therefore answers the part of the question that is answerable: where the documented downtown venues are, how far apart they sit in straight-line terms, and how a reader can measure from their own starting point. The payout question itself is answered by saying no documented per-venue payout figure exists here, and by explaining what governs the number a reader might see elsewhere.
The Venue Set Around the Las Vegas City Reference Point
The reference material documents ten venues measured from the Las Vegas city coordinates, all within 1.7 straight-line miles of that point. These are downtown properties clustered tightly together, not a complete list of casinos in Las Vegas. The file documents 481 venues in total and is not a census of any city; the state gaming regulator holds the complete current list.
| 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 |
Every figure above is a straight-line measurement between documented coordinates. None of them is a road distance, and none implies a driving time. The tight clustering of the first eight entries reflects the compact downtown grid; the two 1.7-mile entries sit farther from the city reference point.
The D Las Vegas: The Closest Documented Venue
The D Las Vegas is documented at 36.16972222 latitude and -115.14277778 longitude, placing it at the eastern end of the Fremont Street Experience. The property opened on July 2, 1980, and is owned and operated by Derek and Greg Stevens. The venue documents more than 1,000 slot machines and 22 table games on two floors.
Those facility figures describe a documented point in time, not today. Slot counts, table counts and floor layouts change as properties renovate. The coordinate pair, by contrast, is the fixed geographic anchor this article uses for distance work.
Four Queens and the 1966 Layer of the Map
Four Queens sits at 36.16972222 latitude and -115.14361111 longitude, 0.2 straight-line miles from the city reference point. The casino opened on June 2, 1966, with a hotel following two months later. A 1972 expansion added an arcade with 105 slot machines and a bar, and the property documents 115 hotel rooms from its opening configuration.
The owner field in the reference material names Elsinore Corporation for the period from 1973 to 2003. Ownership of casino properties changes through sales and rebrands, so a historical owner is not a claim about who operates the venue today. The coordinate pair is what matters for the distance table above.
Horseshoe and Binion's: Two Names on One Coordinate Pair
Horseshoe and Binion's share the same documented coordinates: 36.17138889 latitude and -115.14444444 longitude. Both entries document 366 hotel rooms and an opening year of 1932. The reference material notes the hotel closed in 2009, and that the property is owned by TLC Casino Enterprises.
Because the two entries share coordinates, they appear at the same straight-line distance from the city reference point: 0.3 miles. This article does not adjudicate which name is current or which venue a visitor will find at that location today. The coordinate pair is documented; the branding is a separate, changeable fact.
Golden Nugget Las Vegas and the Hotel Room Count
Golden Nugget Las Vegas is documented at 36.17083333 latitude and -115.14472222 longitude, 0.3 straight-line miles from the city reference point. The venue documents 2,419 hotel rooms and an opening year of 1984. The owner field names Landry's, with a city of Houston and state of Texas attached to that owner entry.
The hotel room count is a documented facility figure from publicly published reference sources, and it is revised as properties expand or renovate. The straight-line distance is the stable fact: 0.3 miles from the Las Vegas city reference point, measured great-circle.
Straight-Line Distance Versus the Road You Drive
A great-circle distance is the shortest path across the surface of the earth between two coordinate pairs. It ignores every physical obstacle in between. Road distance is always longer because a vehicle must follow a network of streets, highways and intersections that rarely runs in a direct line between two points.
Several factors widen the gap between straight-line and road distance. Terrain forces roads to curve around elevation changes. Water bodies require bridges or tunnels at specific crossing points. The street grid itself, especially in a downtown area with one-way streets and pedestrian zones, adds detours. Crossing a state line can also add route constraints. None of these factors is reflected in a great-circle figure.
This article therefore labels every distance as straight-line and does not publish road mileage. A reader who wants the driving distance must measure it in a mapping tool that accepts their actual starting point and route preferences.
Where the Venue Sits: Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Downtown Cluster
The city reference point for this article is Las Vegas, Nevada, at 36.16916667 latitude and -115.14055556 longitude. The documented venues sit north of that point, within a tight band of coordinates. The D Las Vegas and Four Queens sit just north of the reference point; Horseshoe, Binion's and Golden Nugget Las Vegas sit slightly farther north and west.
The coordinate spread supports a directional statement: the venues are clustered north of the city reference point, with the 1.7-mile entries extending the pattern outward. This article does not name highways, exits, or neighborhoods beyond what the source sentences state, because those tokens are not in the reference material.
If Your Question Started with "Near Me" or "From My Location"
The keyword for this article asks about payouts, not about a specific reader's location, so no starting point exists to measure from. A venue's position is fixed; a reader's position is not. Any article that guesses a reader's city and produces a distance from it is inventing a fact.
The correct method is to take the venue's documented coordinates from the table above, enter them into a mapping tool along with your own current position, and let the tool compute the road distance and travel time. The venue coordinates are stable; your starting point is the variable only you can supply.
What the Reference Material Cannot Measure
This article cannot measure the road distance between any two of these venues, because no road-mileage pair is documented. It cannot state a driving time for any route, in any unit. It cannot name a highway, exit number, or turn-by-turn instruction, because none of those tokens appears in the reference material.
It also cannot answer the payout question. No per-venue slot payout percentage exists in the documented facts. A reader who wants a payout figure must look to the state gaming regulator's published aggregate reports, and must understand that an aggregate is not a promise about any single machine or any future session.
What to Confirm Before You Go
Several facts about these venues change and must be confirmed through the property's own channels before travel. The slot machine count, table game count, hotel room count, and operating status are all revised as properties renovate, rebrand, or change ownership. The coordinate pairs do not change, but everything built on top of them can.
Check the property's own published pages for current facility figures, hours, and any entry or parking policies. Confirm which name currently applies to the coordinate pair shared by Horseshoe and Binion's. If you are measuring your own route, use a mapping tool with your actual starting point, not the city reference point used here.
FAQ
Which Las Vegas casino has the best slot payouts?
No documented per-venue payout rate exists in the reference material behind this article, so no venue can be named. Slot outcomes are governed by a fixed built-in house advantage that no method of play changes. Any answer naming a specific casino is an anecdote. Consult the state gaming regulator's published aggregate reports for the only official figures, and understand those are not promises about any single machine.
How far is the D Las Vegas from the Las Vegas city reference point?
The D Las Vegas is documented at 0.1 straight-line miles from the Las Vegas city reference point, measured great-circle. Road distance is longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time. The venue's documented coordinates are 36.16972222 latitude and -115.14277778 longitude, at the eastern end of the Fremont Street Experience.
Why does this article not give driving distances between the downtown casinos?
The reference material contains only great-circle distances between documented coordinate pairs. Road distance depends on the street network, one-way systems, terrain, and the reader's actual starting point, none of which is documented here. A reader can enter the venue coordinates into a mapping tool with their own position to get a road distance and travel time.
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