Mark Emery, director of media relations at Turning Stone, said the site attracts four-and-a-half million people each year.Įmery added the casino doesn’t market to schools like Syracuse. Yes, it takes enough concentration and strength to weather the roller coaster of emotions for me to proclaim it a sport-if hunting, fishing and curling count.Īll this, including a gambling age of 18, is located in Verona, N.Y., only 40 minutes from the Syracuse campus. There’s a plethora of slot machines, tables for all variations of card games and plenty of roulette wheels for those who love the sport of gambling. I expected Turning Stone-or ‘The Stone’ as regulars call it-to be a downtrodden casino, but I was pleasantly surprised. So I made my first trip to Turning Stone Resort and Casino from just outside New York City nearly two years ago. In hindsight, maybe I should have stuck with Lotto. Some of the reasoning for going to a casino was to kick my Lotto habit.
