The Lucky Dog is pretty remote unless you are driving up highway 101 from Olympia. The casino has a nice exterior appearance and it looks like the new management has tried to make the casino look clean and new as they can afford to. They are right between 7 Cedars and Little Creek, so they can't afford to run a run down dive like the disorganized Port Gamble S'Klallam tribe does with Point No Point Casino. They serve good coffee and soft drinks and have $5 food specials in the cafe. The casino is tiny and most of the machines are cleaned up riverboat specials. Most of the slots are older offerings--focusing on dollar and up spins. They do have a few of the Meltdown slots-that is their new offering. I went to play on a Monday early afternoon. The place had about 25 locals, primarily seniors. The machines played mostly up and down, with perhaps 3 or 4 "hot" machines in the entire casino. The play was similar to Lucky Eagle, looser than the Seattle/Tacoma casinos, but somewhat boring. I won big once, then lost slowly as 5 PM approached. I wouldn't want to be playing here during "rush hour". I think this casino is just too small to offer really good payouts very often.

Friday night Seafood Buffet at the Lucky Dog.
August in the Northwest, Salmon are running and hundreds are caught every day by anglers and gill nets, it’s one of the best Dungeness crab seasons in years and almost everyone is catching their limits; All that in the waters that adjoin the tribal land. A few miles up the Hood Canal are Dabob Bay, Hama-Hama, Trident Cove and a dozen other great oyster and clam areas; Check out the Hood Canal on line or in person if you are lucky!
So with all this bountiful a $17.99 seafood buffet at the Lucky Dog should be great! Clue here is sea food buffet… they took our money but there wasn’t any food. Should have been called a No See Food buffet.
The girl that took the money for the thrown-together “buffet” was surprised when we pointed out that all of the chafing dishes and serving platters were empty though it was apparent it was her job to tell the cooks. The cook brought out about one dish every 10 minutes. The manager walked around with his hands behind his back (ala Capt. Bligh) looking at his staff like he probably did in his day job at Burger King, and told us he only had two cooks. The Dungeness crab clusters were obviously frozen and poorly steamed to thaw, salmon patties from a box, about 1 in 12 steamed clams did not open and obviously were bad, they only refilled the salad once, and hushpuppies??? For Gods sake hushpuppies??? Where was the breaded catfish?
No comps, no cares, no free drinks, and now no customers.
The casino is a smokers dream, don’t even have to light up it is that thick. There are about a dozen machines in a non-smoking corner though.
So my ranking? How many Yucks in Sucks?

Lucky Dog Casino is a great place to go. Although there are no table games, they provide many promotions for customers to get involved and win. The food is awesome. The employees are very personable. The slots are generous. The casino doesn't have a hotel, but it does allow for self-contained motorhomes to park and it has opened a banquet room one can use at no cost. Well worth the trip. Thank you Lucky Dog for reopening!!!