"Gaming"… sounds more acceptable, more sporty and fun.

This is how gaming should be like -- they should not call it gambling anymore.

The Casino not only offer the gaming tables, but also a place for entertainment - the "Teatro Filipino", a party place where you can watch free shows, concerts, play bingo and even learn ballroom dancing. This is the place where different organizations meet to discuss issues or concerns and perhaps entertain themselves thereafter.

The new Casino Filipino invites you to travel back in time as you enter the main gaming area. It depicts a historic culture, the influential façade and interior designs of the Western Culture. (show photo of balcony, partly the game room or table).

If you have come to play, You can take a chance at 70 gaming tables offering baccarat (also known as lucky 9), blackjack, roulette, pai-gaw and craps - or try your luck at the well-known slot machines.

For high rollers, a discreet and quiet VIP rooms can be located on the third floor. If you need assistance, the casino has concierge counter and a roving, good-natured casino host. Be assured of fine service at the gaming table because all the action on the floor are closely followed by game auditors through video monitors.

On the lighter side, one may even find a café/restaurant (photo needed). If you run out of luck, your "donation" to the casino 's coffers will find its way to the regular outreach programs (as planned) to poor communities, engaging in health and sports activities.

The casino of PAGCOR had heard rave reviews, the Casino-Filipino-Cebu at the Waterfront Hotel. The concept for the main gaming area was to create the ambience of a town plaza. And what better plaza to approximate than that of picturesque Carcar, with its turn-of the-century structures? (Thank heavens the plan to demolish them for the sake of “development” – that is, road widening – has been shelved. Forever one hopes.) The best houses along in Carcar’s plaza and nearby areas have been recreated in this main gaming room at the e

But there are other rooms with other themes. VIP rooms are named after Spanish galleons – the Santa Maria, the Trinidad, the Concepcion and the Victoria. Junket operations (for high rollers flown in from various parts of the country and/or the globe) are at the fourth level of the casino.

Everything one would want in a casino is there, including a shoeshine, a lounge beside bread and coffee stands, bank facilities including ATM machines. And everything in the casino is plush. And proudly made in Cebu, including the paintings and murals hang in strategic locations.

Even it one does not gamble, it might be worth one’s time to visit the place just to view the setting of “the action”. Or perhaps to enjoy oneself at the Teatro Casino where there’s ballroom dancing Friday nights. It is also a place with many things. It can be a bingo room, a ballroom, a place for shows (fashion shows, musical concerts, plays), even for seminars or small conventions! It’s a versatile room sanctorum of the Casino.

Come and enjoy the sights and sounds of the casino. And if you must play, may the gods of good fortune be with you!