Missouri Casinos —
Two Great Cities. One Great State.
13 Licensed Casinos · Kansas City · St. Louis · The River Towns
Missouri is one of a handful of states with two full-scale metro casino markets. Kansas City and St. Louis each support four competing properties — meaning more tables, deeper promotions, and better poker than most single-market states can offer. Missouri voters approved riverboat gaming in 1992, and the first boats opened in 1994. Today the Missouri Gaming Commission licenses 13 casinos, every one of them sited on the Missouri or Mississippi river. Three of them fly Caesars flags.
Part of the Vantage Corridor Casino Network
Missouri casino taxes fund elementary and secondary education, veterans' programs, and early childhood services through the Gaming Proceeds for Education Fund.
Missouri's Two Casino Capitals
250 Miles Apart. Eight Casinos Between Them.
Kansas City Market
Four Casinos on the Missouri River
Harrah's North Kansas City — Caesars Entertainment
1 Riverboat Dr, North Kansas City, MO 64116 · (816) 472-7777
The Caesars Rewards anchor in the KC market. Hotel, multiple restaurants, live entertainment, retail sportsbook.
Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City — Boyd Gaming
3200 N Ameristar Dr, Kansas City, MO 64161 · (816) 414-7000
The largest hotel in the KC casino market. Ten dining venues, poker room, B Connected rewards.
Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa — Penn Entertainment
777 NW Argosy Casino Pkwy, Riverside, MO 64150 · (816) 746-3100
Riverside location just northwest of downtown. Hotel, spa, sportsbook. Often confused with Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway, which is a separate property across the state line in Kansas.
Bally's Kansas City — Bally's Corporation
1800 E Front St, Kansas City, MO 64120 · (816) 855-7777
Formerly Isle of Capri Kansas City, then Casino KC. Rebranded to Bally's after Bally's Corporation acquired the property in 2020.
Four competing casinos inside twenty minutes of downtown. Harrah's carries the Caesars Rewards network value, Ameristar has the deepest hotel and dining program, Argosy owns the riverfront setting, and Bally's runs the leanest floor with the fewest crowds.
Worth Knowing
Kansas City players have a second option most guides skip — Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway sits in Kansas City, Kansas, roughly twenty minutes west of downtown. It is a Kansas state-owned casino operated by Penn, not a Missouri license, and it does not appear in Missouri Gaming Commission numbers.
St. Louis Market
Gateway City Gaming — Four Casinos, Two Rivers
Ameristar Casino Hotel St. Charles — Boyd Gaming
1 Ameristar Blvd, St. Charles, MO 63301 · (636) 949-7777
Missouri's largest casino complex. Roughly 130,000 square feet of gaming, a full hotel, and ten restaurants. The strongest poker room in the state.
Horseshoe St. Louis — Caesars Entertainment
999 N 2nd St, St. Louis, MO 63102 · (314) 881-7777
Downtown on the Laclede's Landing riverfront. Opened as Lumière Place in 2007 and rebranded to Horseshoe in May 2022, making it Caesars' first Horseshoe property in Missouri. Carries a WSOP-branded poker room.
Hollywood Casino St. Louis — Penn Entertainment
777 Casino Center Dr, Maryland Heights, MO 63043 · (314) 770-8100
The metro workhorse. Hotel, poker room, retail sportsbook, and the largest floor on the Missouri side of the St. Louis market.
River City Casino & Hotel — Penn Entertainment
777 River City Casino Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63125 · (314) 388-7777
South county anchor in Lemay. Hotel, event center, and the most convenient floor for Jefferson County players.
St. Louis is the more varied of Missouri's two markets. Ameristar St. Charles is the destination resort, Horseshoe brings the Caesars Rewards network and WSOP poker downtown, Hollywood is the volume floor, and River City covers the south side. Four operators competing inside one metro means promotions actually move.
Worth Knowing
The Illinois riverboats sit directly across the Mississippi from downtown St. Louis — close enough that many East Side players cross the river both directions depending on who is running the better promotion that week.
Caesars Rewards in Missouri
Three Caesars properties carry Missouri licenses — one in each of the state's gaming regions.
Horseshoe St. Louis
Downtown St. Louis · WSOP poker room · riverfront hotel
Harrah's North Kansas City
North Kansas City · Caesars Rewards anchor of the KC market
Isle of Capri Boonville
Boonville · central Missouri on the Missouri River, hotel and marina
Caesars Rewards tier credits and comps earned at any of the three carry across the entire Caesars network — including Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New Orleans, and Biloxi. For Missouri players who travel, the Missouri properties are worth playing specifically for what the status is worth somewhere else.
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All 13 Licensed Missouri Casinos
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Ameristar Casino Hotel St. Charles
Boyd Gaming
St. Charles, MO (St. Louis metro)
Missouri's largest casino complex — roughly 130,000 sq ft of gaming, full hotel, ten restaurants, and the state's strongest poker room.
Horseshoe St. Louis
Caesars Entertainment
St. Louis, MO (Downtown)
Downtown riverfront property on Laclede's Landing. Opened as Lumière Place in 2007, rebranded Horseshoe in May 2022. WSOP-branded poker room.
Hollywood Casino St. Louis
Penn Entertainment
Maryland Heights, MO
Full-service resort casino with hotel, poker room, retail sportsbook, and the largest gaming floor in the Missouri half of the St. Louis market.
River City Casino & Hotel
Penn Entertainment
St. Louis, MO (Lemay)
South county anchor with hotel and event center. The closest Missouri casino to Jefferson County.
Harrah's North Kansas City
Caesars Entertainment
North Kansas City, MO
Caesars Rewards flagship in the Kansas City market. Hotel, multiple restaurants, live entertainment, retail sportsbook.
Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City
Boyd Gaming
Kansas City, MO
The largest hotel in the KC casino market. Ten dining venues and a full poker room.
Argosy Casino Hotel & Spa
Penn Entertainment
Riverside, MO (KC metro)
Riverfront property northwest of downtown Kansas City. Hotel, spa, and sportsbook.
Bally's Kansas City
Bally's Corporation
Kansas City, MO
Formerly Isle of Capri Kansas City and later Casino KC. Acquired and rebranded by Bally's Corporation in 2020.
Isle of Capri Casino Hotel Boonville
Caesars Entertainment
Boonville, MO (Central Missouri)
On the Missouri River in Boonville, roughly halfway between Kansas City and St. Louis on I-70. Hotel and marina. A Caesars Rewards destination.
Century Casino Cape Girardeau
Century Casinos
Cape Girardeau, MO (Southeast Missouri)
Mississippi River gaming on the southeast edge of the state. Formerly Isle Casino Cape Girardeau; Century Casinos acquired the operations in December 2019.
Century Casino Caruthersville
Century Casinos
Caruthersville, MO (Bootheel)
Missouri's southernmost casino, serving the Bootheel and the northern Arkansas and western Tennessee markets. Formerly Lady Luck Caruthersville.
Mark Twain Casino
Affinity Interactive
La Grange, MO (Northeast Missouri)
Mississippi River gaming in Mark Twain country, serving the Hannibal and Quincy, Illinois corridor. RV park on site.
St. Jo Frontier Casino
Affinity Interactive
St. Joseph, MO (Northwest Missouri)
Missouri River riverboat about an hour north of Kansas City. The state's northwestern-most license.
Missouri's 13 casino licenses are regulated by the Missouri Gaming Commission. Ownership and branding change — verify current status at mgc.dps.mo.gov or contact the property directly. Every Missouri casino is a commercial riverboat license; there is no tribal gaming in Missouri.
Missouri Poker
Two Metro Markets Means Two Competing Poker Scenes
Where the Games Are
Missouri's poker rooms benefit from the state's dual-metro structure. Kansas City and St. Louis each support multiple live rooms, so hours run longer and tournament calendars stay fuller than in states with a single market. All Missouri poker is played at MGC-licensed casinos — the state has no independent card rooms or poker clubs.
#1 — Ameristar Casino Hotel St. Charles
The largest and busiest room in Missouri. Multi-table cash action daily and a regular tournament series. Part of Boyd's B Connected network.
#2 — Horseshoe St. Louis
WSOP-branded room in downtown St. Louis. Tournament scheduling ties into the wider Caesars and WSOP Circuit calendar, which makes it the room to watch when the Circuit is nearby.
#3 — Harrah's North Kansas City
The strongest poker option in the Kansas City market and the KC room where Caesars Rewards play is worth the most.
#4 — Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City
The second KC room. Reliable daily games and a good alternative when Harrah's runs long waits.
#5 — Hollywood Casino St. Louis
Maryland Heights room with a regular tournament calendar under Penn's coordinated series scheduling.
#6 — River City Casino
South St. Louis room — the convenient choice for south county and Jefferson County players.
Missouri Poker Facts
- •Legal poker has been offered at Missouri casinos since 1994
- •No independent card rooms — all poker is at MGC-licensed casino properties
- •1/2 No-Limit Hold'em is the standard game; 2/5 runs at the larger rooms
- •Two competing metro markets means more table options than most Midwest states
- •Missouri's $500 loss limit was repealed by voters in November 2008; there is no cap today
- •Minimum age is 21 for all casino gambling in Missouri
- •Missouri has not legalized online casino gaming
Six Live Poker Rooms Across Two Metros
Missouri Sports Betting
Live Since December 1, 2025
How Missouri Got Here
Missouri voters approved Amendment 2 in November 2024 by the narrowest of margins, legalizing both retail and online sports betting. The Missouri Gaming Commission spent the following year building the licensing framework, and betting went live at 12:00 a.m. on December 1, 2025. Missouri was the only state in the country to launch sports betting during 2025, and became the 39th state overall to offer it. Bettors wagered just over $543 million in the first month.
You can bet from a phone anywhere inside state lines, or walk up to a sportsbook window at any of the major casino resorts.
Retail Sportsbook Locations
- •Harrah's North Kansas City — Caesars Sportsbook
- •Ameristar St. Charles and Ameristar Kansas City — Boyd retail sportsbook
- •Hollywood Casino St. Louis and Argosy Riverside — Penn retail sportsbook
- •Horseshoe St. Louis — Caesars Sportsbook
- •Sports betting kiosks at the remaining licensed properties
Sportsbooks Live in Missouri
- •DraftKings Sportsbook
- •FanDuel Sportsbook
- •BetMGM
- •Caesars Sportsbook
- •bet365
- •Fanatics Sportsbook
- •Circa Sports
- •theScore Bet — Penn Entertainment's sportsbook brand, which replaced ESPN Bet when that partnership ended December 1, 2025
- •All licensed through the Missouri Gaming Commission
Missouri fields one of the richest sports calendars in the country — the Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Blues, Kansas City Current, and St. Louis City SC. Two NFL-market metros in one state is rare, and it shows in Missouri's handle.
What Makes Missouri Different
Dual Metros, River Heritage, and Eight Borders
Two Full Metro Markets
Missouri is one of very few states with two independently developed major-metro casino markets. Kansas City and St. Louis each support four competing properties under the same state license structure. Competition inside a market is what drives real promotions — and Missouri has it twice.
Riverboat Heritage
Missouri voters approved riverboat gaming in 1992 and the first boats opened in 1994. State law still requires every casino to sit on the Missouri or Mississippi river. The boats have been permanently moored for decades, but the geography of Missouri gaming was set by that rule and has never changed.
The Loss Limit Era
For fourteen years Missouri capped losses at $500 per player per two-hour period — the only state in the country to do it. Players had to register and swipe in. Voters repealed the cap in November 2008. Longtime Missouri players still remember the buy-in windows.
Eight State Borders
Missouri touches eight states — Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. That ties Tennessee for the most of any state and makes Missouri's casinos a natural crossroads for regional casino travel in every direction.
Missouri Casino Road Trips
Every Direction Out of Missouri Leads Somewhere Worth Playing
North — Iowa
23 licensed casinos, including three full resorts clustered in Council Bluffs about three hours north of Kansas City. Iowa's poker scene is deeper than Missouri's and the WSOP Circuit visits regularly.
East — Chicago & the Illinois Corridor
Illinois riverboats sit directly across the Mississippi from downtown St. Louis, and the Chicago market four and a half hours northeast is one of the largest in the Midwest.
South — Arkansas
Arkansas legalized full commercial casinos in 2018. Saracen Casino Resort in Pine Bluff and Southland in West Memphis anchor a fast-growing market just below Missouri's Bootheel.
Southwest — Oklahoma
Oklahoma has more tribal gaming locations than any other state — well over a hundred, from destination resorts like WinStar and Choctaw Durant down to small gaming halls. Southwest Missouri players are within easy reach of several.
Northwest — Nebraska
WarHorse Gaming brought commercial casinos to Lincoln and Omaha between 2022 and 2024. Combined with Council Bluffs directly across the river, the Nebraska–Iowa–Missouri corner is one of the densest casino corridors in the Midwest.
The Whole Region
The Midwest casino corridor connects Missouri to Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Indiana in one guide.
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Play Responsibly in Missouri
Missouri funds problem gambling treatment through the Missouri Alliance to Curb Problem Gambling — a partnership of the Department of Mental Health, the Missouri Gaming Commission, the Missouri Gaming Association, the Missouri Lottery, and the Port Authority of Kansas City. Help is free, confidential, and available around the clock.
Missouri Problem Gambling Helpline
1-888-BETSOFF (1-888-238-7633)
24 hours a day, 7 days a week — free and confidential
888betsoff.org- •Missouri Department of Mental Health, Division of Behavioral Health — dmh.mo.gov
- •Voluntary self-exclusion is available at every MGC-licensed Missouri casino
- •Missouri Gaming Commission — mgc.dps.mo.gov
You must be 21 or older to gamble in Missouri. Missouri.Casino is an independent guide and is not affiliated with the Missouri Gaming Commission, the Missouri Lottery, or any casino property. Information is provided for general reference and is subject to change — verify current details with the property or at mgc.dps.mo.gov.