Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City

Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City casino games

The Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City has one of the largest gambling floors in the state. Slots are the primary attraction, although there is a wide variety of table games, too.

Slot machines

Ameristar Kansas City features over 2,200 slots, including both traditional reels and video slots with stakes ranging from pennies to $100 in the high limit slot room. There are also numerous progressive jackpot slots from which to choose.

• 88 Fortunes
• Buffalo Gold
• Dragon Link Golden Century
• Jinse Dao Dragon
• Lightning Link
• Lock It Link
• River Dragons
• Triple Double Diamond
• Ultimate Fire Link

Peppered among the many slots are a large number of single- and multi-hand video poker machines. There are also electronic table games where you can play roulette, blackjack, and other games. You’ll also find keno at Ameristar Kansas City.

Table games

Ameristar Kansas City currently advertises 66 table games, although at times it has had more than 80 on the casino floor. Featured table games include the following:

• Blackjack
• Craps
• Roulette
• Mini-Baccarat
• Pai Gow Poker

Guests can additionally find a number of other card games throughout the casino:

• Caribbean Stud Poker
• Double Deck Blackjack
• Let It Ride
• Mississippi Stud
• Three Card Poker
• Ultimate Texas Hold’em

Worth mentioning as well is the high limit table game area where guests can bet up to $10,000 on selected games. The casino also features a special section called the Baccarat Pit where players can find three types of mini-baccarat games.

The casino previously operated the largest poker room in the area at 15 tables, although it closed in March 2020, and there are no plans to reopen it.

Stardust Social Casino

Ameristar Kansas City also invites guests to play casino games on a free-to-play social casino app, the Stardust Social Casino. The app is available for both Apple and Android devices and includes a variety of slots. While there are no cash prizes, you can accumulate Boyd Points and tier credits by playing.

Possible Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City sportsbook partners

While Missouri does not presently allow sports betting, lawmakers are considering the matter closely. Should the state legalize sports betting, you can expect Ameristar Kansas City to launch a sportsbook in its casino.

The FanDuel Group seems a likely partner to run an Ameristar Kansas City sportsbook should Missouri allow it. Boyd Gaming recently teamed with the FanDuel Group to open FanDuel sportsbooks in its Louisiana casinos. You’ll also find FanDuel sportsbooks in Boyd Gaming casinos in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, and Pennsylvania.

Meanwhile, in Nevada, Boyd Gaming operates several casinos that feature its own B-Connected Sportsbooks.

Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City amenities

There is much more to do at Ameristar Kansas City beyond gambling at the casino. The luxury hotel features 184 rooms and suites, with an accompanying five-level, 2,660-space parking deck. The property features seven dining venues, an 18-screen movie theater, a children’s entertainment complex, and a video arcade.

There is a concert venue as well, the 1,332-seat Star Pavilion where musical and comedy acts frequently perform. The property also has 15,000 square feet of meeting and conference space.

Boyd Rewards

Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City in Kansas City, MO, lets you participate in the Boyd Rewards loyalty program. Guests and casino patrons can accumulate tier credits and earn rewards such as free and discounted hotel stays, discounted food and retail purchases, free and discounted flights, cruise packages, B Memorable experiences, and annual gifts.

The number of tier credits you accumulate in a year improves your Boyd Rewards status. The program features five tiers:

• Ruby
• Sapphire
• Emerald
• Onyx
• Titanium

Participants also accumulate Boyd Points whenever they play casino games or spend money at the property. You can redeem these points for various rewards as indicated by your tier status.

The program applies across more than two dozen properties in the US, including many in Las Vegas and throughout the Midwest.

Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City history

The property first opened as Station Casino in January 1997. Ameristar Casinos then acquired and rebranded the Kansas City casino in 2000. In 2013, Pinnacle Entertainment acquired Ameristar Casinos and three years later sold Ameristar Kansas City to Gaming and Leisure Properties, which then leased the property back to Pinnacle.

Since Pinnacle already owned and operated other Missouri casinos, in 2018 the Federal Trade Commission required the company to divest some of its MO properties to ensure competitiveness. Boyd Gaming acquired the casino in October 2018 and has operated it since then.

The property has been one of the largest Missouri casinos since its first opening. Originally, it was a genuine “floating casino” with twin boats that regularly set sail on short two-hour cruises as was necessary under Missouri law. That cruising requirement ended in 1996, however. Another big legal change affecting Ameristar Kansas City happened in 2008 when voters did away with a $500 “loss limit” that previously prevented patrons from purchasing more than $500 in casino chips during a two-hour period.

Today, Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City routinely earns the highest monthly revenue of KC-area casinos and ranks near the top of the list among casinos across the state.