Papa's Sports Lounge & Casino

Papa’s Sports Lounge & Casino is in Moses Lake, Washington. Moses Lake is a small city that’s also the county seat in a fairly remote part of Washington. Moses Lake was formed as a consequence of the Grand Coulee Dam and only became a formal city with a rising population in the 20th century. Papa’s Sports Lounge & Casino serves the 30,000 or so people in the Moses Lake recreation area, many of them also employed in the tourism industry in some form.

The nearby Moses Lake complex, an artificial lake formed by the damming of a nearby river, is the biggest tourist attraction in the area, with 180+ miles of shoreline and dozens of seap lakes (with their prime fishing) in a ten-mile radius. Moses Lake is something of a sportsman’s and recreational paradise. Papa’s Sports Lounge & Casino is a hybrid of a sports bar and a slot parlor that mostly serves the semi-rural population in this sparsely populated but beautiful area of the state.

Games

The “casino” in Papa’s Sports Lounge is really just a small collection of slot and video poker games that are designed to follow strict Washington gambling laws. These are similar to standard slots and video poker titles but the rules (and pay tables) are altered to make them essentially zero-sum games. The feature at Papa’s isn’t really the small casino area, but Papa’s Sports Lounge itself.

Restaurants & Bars

Open from 10 AM to 2 AM most days of the year, Papa’s Sports Lounge is exactly what the name implies. It’s a sports bar that serves your typical American bar food and shows sports all day every day on giant TVs. It’s a cool sports bar with great drink and food specials depending on the time of year and what day of the week it is, but that’s really all it is. That small casino space attached is laughable even by Washington standards.

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