As mentioned in SCU - WI 102, the Ho-Chunk Nation has a massive casino-hotel-convention complex in Baraboo (The Ho-Chunk Casino) that is one of the big three casino complexes in Wisconsin. Thay also have two smaller casino operations in the state. One is the Majestic Pines Casino, which for years was a bingo hall with an added area the size of a two car garage crammed full of slot machines. In '98 they built a small-medium sized modern casino-hotel, and in '99 they put blackjack tables in. The place is too far to get to very often, they won't give you more than one card a visit, and practically none of these people leave cards on the machines. The Guide lists a early card with punchcard reader slots that I do not have. I do have, and can show you the type 2, 3 and 4. Three and Four have the same front, with the web address added to the bottom of the text on the back. At a recent trip to the Ho-Chunk Casino I found a Majestic Pines card on the Player's Club desk and grabbed it. Only when I got home did I notice that it was a BINGO Player's Club, not a POWER Player's Club! By the way, my scanner program will not allow me to combine scans into one picture, so to show the front and back of a card here, I have resorted to getting a color xerox of a side and including that. Well the Bingo Player's Club card did not copy well, as it is the same purple as the Power Player's Card, but turned much darker, almost black, in the copy. Don't trust color variations when you see a copy or computer scan of a card. They may be altering the hues of the original.

(Originally posted 10-2-01 - updated 4-11-02)