Billed as the “ultimate destination for winners like you,” MGM Grand Detroit lives up to its tagline with over $297 million in jackpots paid out in 2024 alone.
Owned by US hospitality and casino giant MGM Resorts International and VICI Properties, Inc., MGM Grand Detroit features 400 luxury hotel rooms and suites, two signature restaurants, and a wide variety of bars and entertainment options.
The casino itself is home to approximately 3,500 gaming machines, 150 table games, a poker room (which won a Best Of… award from Casino Player Magazine in 2024), and the BetMGM Sports Lounge, which has opened on March 11, 2020, the first day of regulated sports betting in Michigan.
MGM Grand Detroit and the BetMGM app entered the sports betting markets, in early 2021.
MGM Grand Detroit Casino & Sportsbook
Address: 1777 3rd Ave., Detroit
Owner: MGM Resorts International / VICI Properties
Operator: MGM
Online Sportsbook: BetMGM Sports
Online Casino: BetMGM Casino
Online Poker: partypoker
Hours: 24 hours / 7 days a week
Casino games: 3,500+ slots, blackjack, craps, roulette
Sportsbook: Opened in spring 2020
Poker: Tournaments and cash games (NLH, LHE, PLO)
Legal Gambling Age: 21+
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MGM Grand Detroit online gambling partnerships
BetMGM—a t venture between MGM Resorts International and Entain Holdings—is the headline brand for online casino gaming in the United States and MGM’s exclusive sports betting partner online and in MGM casinos nationwide.
MGM partners range from the NBA, NHL, MLB, Nascar, and the PGA to Yahoo! Sports, The Athletic, Sidelines, and The Action Network.
Online and mobile sportsbook
MGM Resorts International launched its playMGM brand online and mobile sports betting product in New Jersey in 2017.
It immediately became part of the first integrated gaming site in the country, allowing players to enjoy online poker, online casino games, and online sports betting with a single .
The entire operation was rebranded as BetMGM in September 2019, and MGM has since brought the product to multiple states that have legalized online sports betting, including Michigan.
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The casino at MGM Grand Detroit
The 100,000-square-foot casino at MGM Grand Detroit is open 24 hours.
It features close to 3,500 slots and video poker games, 150 table games, and Detroit’s premier live poker room. That means everything from classic favorites to multi-line video slots, video poker machines, and the largest selection of table games in Michigan.
The casino at MGM Grand Detroit runs a variety of promotions, including:
- Status Match. Present a valid VIP loyalty card from an eligible competitor at any MGM Rewards desk by July 31, 2025 to receive a complimentary instant Gold or Platinum status for 90 days.
- Sign up. Spin. Win. Sign up for a new MGM Rewards and be eligible to win $10,000 cash, a free hotel stay, or other prizes when you swipe your card at a kiosk within 24 hours. (Limited to one swipe per new enrollment.)
Slots
MGM Grand Detroit is home to nearly 3,500 slots and video poker machines. There’s everything from classic favorites to multi-line video slots and multi-hand video poker, ranging from 1 cent to $100.
The latest themed slots are there, like Smokin’ Hot Rubies, Whitney Houston, Huff N’ Puff – High Rise, and Bao Zhu Zhao Fu Ignite.
Table games
If rolling dice, spinning a wheel or catching cards in classic casino games are more your thing, MGM Grand Detroit has you covered with almost 150 table games.
Here’s a full list of the table games available on the property:
- Bad Beat Jackpot
- Blackjack
- Craps
- Criss Cross Poker
- Dragon Bonus Baccarat
- Four-Card Poker
- Free Bet Blackjack
- I Luv Suites
- Let it Ride Poker
- Mississippi Stud Poker
- Perfect Pairs Blackjack
- Pontoon 21
- Progressive Pai Gow Poker
- Roulette
- Single Zero Roulette
- Spanish 21
- Super 4 Progressive Blackjack
- Three-Card Poker
- Tri-Lux Blackjack
- Two-Way Monte
- Ultimate Texas Hold ‘Em*
MGM Grand Detroit also offers access to Premier Pits, including a Party Pit with $1 blackjack tables and the AXIS Pit featuring live entertainment from AXIS Lounge. Plus, there are monthly blackjack tournaments.
MGM Rewards program
Replacing M life Rewards, MGM Rewards is MGM Resorts International’s loyalty program, and it is available at MGM Grand Detroit.
Earn points on hotel stays, dining, and games as well as entertainment, retail, spa, and cabana purchases charged to your room. These points can then be redeemed towards room comps and upgrades, restaurants, and more at MGM resorts nationwide.
BetMGM Sports Lounge
Open from 9 a.m. to 12 a.m., this sports bar features…
- 6 betting windows
- 33 self-service betting kiosks located throughout the Casino
- 60 HDTVs
- Plush lounge seating and high-top seating
- 14 bar top Video Poker machines
- Full bar featuring signature craft cocktails and selection of local craft beers
MGM Grand Detroit poker room
Open 24/7 and voted 2024’s Best Poker Room in Town by Casino Player Magazine, players can enjoy No-Limit Texas Hold ‘Em and Pot-Limit Omaha plus other cash games across the rooms 14 tables.
The room features comfortable seating, 18 large screen TVs, and a number of special plays from early morning splash pots and instant high hand jackpots to happy hour and mystery high hand jackpots. (Bomb pots now available 24/7 at every dealer change.)
You can find out what’s happening at the MGM Grand Detroit poker room through the Bravo Poker Live App for Apple and Android mobile devices.
MGM Grand Detroit amenities
The hotel at MGM Grand Detroit
MGM Grand Detroit is home to the only hotel in the city to receive four stars from the Forbes Travel Guide and AAA’s Four Diamond award.
The property features 400 guest rooms and suites, including:
- 335 oversized guest rooms at 510 square feet each.
- 65 luxury suites including 56 1,000-square-foot corner suites with city or skyline views.
- Nine rooftop VIP suites including 1,000-square-foot executive suites, 1,520-square-foot penthouse suites and 2,020- to 2,220-square-foot grand penthouse suites.
Guests of the hotel can enjoy use of a separate hotel entrance, a private lobby living room, and the adult only full-service resort-style spa, indoor salt-water pool and fitness center.
The hotel also features 30,000 square feet of flexible event space for up to 1,200 guests. Plus, the 14,000-square-foot Grand Ballroom that divides into four ballroom salons.
Dining and entertainment
MGM Grand Detroit offers a wide selection of dining and entertainment options, including two signature restaurants, three casual dining options and more:
- TAP at MGM Grand Detroit. A sports-themed pub.
- D.PRIME Steakhouse. A contemporary steakhouse and lounge.
- Detroit Central Market. An urban food hall.
- The Roasted Bean Detroit: Café with fresh pastries, sandwiches, ice cream and coffee.
MGM Grand Detroit history
Michigan voters approved a proposal to establish three commercial casinos in Detroit in 1996. Within a year Michigan lawmakers ed the Michigan Gaming Control & Revenue Act, making it all legal
The $235 million temporary MGM Grand Detroit casino officially opened on July 29, 1999.
The temporary home was inside a renovated Internal Revenue Service building in downtown Detroit, not far from Joe Louis Arena. It featured two floors of gaming with 2,300 slot machines and video poker games and 80 table games.
Permanent hotel and casino
The Michigan Gaming Control Board approved MGM’s plan to build an $800 million, 100,000-square-foot permanent casino, 400-room hotel and eight-story self-parking garage just blocks away at John C. Lodge Freeway and Bagley Street in 2005.
The owners, then known as MGM Mirage, were almost forced to sell the property in 2005.
MGM Mirage acquired Mandalay Resort Group, owners of the MotorCity Casino in Detroit. Michigan gaming law prohibits the ownership of more than one commercial casino, so MGM Mirage was forced to sell one. It ultimately gave up its interest in MotorCity Casino, selling to Little Caesars Pizza billionaire Marian Ilitch for $525 million.
What is still the MGM Grand Detroit to this day opened on Oct. 2, 2007, becoming the first and only Detroit hotel and casino built from the ground up as a new venue.
At the time, MGM Grand Detroit President and COO George Boyer said it signaled a new era for Detroit with amenities and accommodations the likes of which the city had never seen before.
It remains Detroit’s highest grossing casino property, posting $623.5 million in revenue in 2019. That’s 43% of the record $1.454 billion in revenue Detroit casinos posted in 2019.
In 2010, MGM did sell the original temporary MGM Grand Detroit casino. The city bought it for $6.32 million and renovated it, turning the building into the Detroit Public Safety Headquarters.