Prairie Flower Casino

Casino at Prairie Flower

Prairie Flower Casino is the epitome of modern tribal casinos. It offers diverse slot games and a lot of entertainment options. The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska plans to expand the casino and add 25,000 square feet with 2,000 new slot machines and 50 live tables.

What’s more, Prairie Flower Casino regularly hosts several promotions for new and regular customers. The fun starts with the Players Club loyalty program and includes promotions, such as the following:

• Friday Fury — On set Fridays, three winners will get a chance to win bonus play cash prizes worth between $50 and $500 each hour and several bonus entries, depending on their loyalty bonus level.
• Blizzard Bucks Hot Seats — Winners will take home bonus play cash prizes worth $100, $200 and $500.
• Wild Wednesday Multipliers — On set Wednesdays, players can earn bonus points between 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. The multipliers go from 6x to 12x the bonus points accumulated.
• Gift Card Tuesdays — All players who accumulate 10 base points become eligible for several drawings of $25 gift cards.

Slot machines

Even though Prairie Flower Casino currently features only slots, that doesn’t mean you can’t get a world-class experience. On the contrary, thanks to the slot providers like IGT, Aristocratic, Everi, Novomatic, SG and others, you can find a variety of penny, quarter and dollar machines all across the casino floor.

Prairie Flower’s slots vary greatly in themes, bonuses and payouts. Among the most popular titles on the casino floor you can find:

• Black Diamond
• Black Diamond Platinum
• Blazin’ Gems
• Buffalo Gold
• Buffalo XTreme
• Double Jackpot Gems
• Dragon Flies
• Eureka Reel Blast
• Return to the Sea
• Shamrock
• Sizzling Phoenix
• Ultimate Fire Link China Street
• Ultimate Fire Link Olvera Street
• Smokin’ Hot Stuff Wicked Wheel

Players’ Club loyalty program

Prairie Flower Casino has a loyalty bonus program for patrons who keep coming back to the casino. Every time you swipe your membership cards when playing, you can accumulate bonus points and redeem them for various services.

Prairie Flower Casino promotions include:

• Free slot play
• Special casino promotions
• Food and beverage discounts
• Exclusive mail offers
• Special hotel offers
• Invitations to events
• Tickets to regional shows and events
• Personal casino service
• Free vacations

The bonus consists of three tiers, each with more lucrative prizes. While all of them offer an opportunity to win free slot play and discounts on food and drink, only the top tier has a chance to win a free vacation or get personal casino service.

Here’s the bonus structure and the number of points you need to accumulate to get to each of the levels:

• Yellow — 0 to 4,999 points
• Red — 5,000 to 14,999 points
• Black — 15,000+ points

Prairie Flower Casino Amenities

Beyond casino gambling, Prairie Flower Casino offers additional options if you’re planning a visit.

Country Inn & Suites by Radisson

Prairie Flower Casino has partnered with the Country Inn & Suites to provide its visitors with a place to stay once they are done playing in the casino. The hotel is near Eppley Airfield, northeast of Omaha, and less than a mile from the casino, so you can easily access the casino and all the attractions downtown.

The hotel is equipped with king- and queen-size rooms, and each one of them features a Wi-Fi connection, cable TV and Serta mattresses, among other amenities. The hotel also has a fitness center, heated indoor pool and a 600-square-foot conference room for all types of business meetings and conferences.

In addition, you can enjoy breakfast, complimentary coffee, tea and cookies throughout your stay.

Dining options

The food and drink options are not lacking at Prairie Flower Casino, thanks to the Prairie Pit Snack Bar and the Prairie Pub on the casino floor. The Prairie Pit Snack Bar is a great destination for all those who enjoy fast food specials with a twist, thanks to the ingenuity of the chefs. The menu features hot and cold sandwiches, burgers, side dishes, salads and snacks. It also offers pizzas, appetizers and various daily specials.

On the other hand, if you are looking for a super selection of locally sourced options, beers on tap, cocktails and many other types of refreshments, then the Prairie Pub is what you need. It is a vibrant bar where you can relax with your friends, catch a game or two on HD TVs, or get your groove on listening to modern beats blasting from the speakers. Either way, Prairie Flower Casino’s food and drink establishments provide a wealth of options.

Prairie Flower Casino History

The casino opened in 2018, and it is named after the daughter of the famous Chief Standing Bear, who led the tribe when it was removed from present-day Oklahoma.

Prairie Flower Casino’s history is a pretty turbulent one. First of all, the Ponca Tribe fought a legal battle for a decade against the city of Council Bluffs and states of Iowa and Nebraska, which argued that the tribe had broken the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act by building a casino on the restored lands.

However, the US District Court ruled that the lands on which Prairie Flower Casino resides were not restored lands, so the Ponca Tribe could freely continue with the operation of the casino, which houses Class II gambling machines.

The casino was officially opened on Nov. 1, 2018, allowing Omaha residents to enjoy casino gambling without crossing the Missouri River.

The current casino is, in fact, just the first phase of the Ponca Tribe’s plan to build one a large state-of-the-art gambling destination. For the next phase, a massive expansion is planned that will see some 25,000 square feet of space added to the casino floor, together with 2,000 gambling machines and 50 live tables.

To do so, Prairie Flower Casino will have to obtain a Class III gambling license, which could be a major investment in itself. Still, with that kind of license, the facility would be able to add a sportsbook operation, as well.