Room Quality: The rooms are consistent with the recent styling of mid-range rooms. That means neutral browns, fluffy beddings with decent beds. The bathrooms in the standard rooms are basic, with an open sink area and closed-off toilet and tub. The deluxe rooms for a few more bucks have jacuzzi tubs. Either way, the rooms give you a decent flat-panel TV and a king or two queens, plus a fridge. We love rooms with a cooler so we can get free drinks and keep sneaking 'em up to save for later.

Service Quality: Much improved over the former property, but still a largely do-it-yourself property. There is room service, and check-in is pretty quick because there are only 307 rooms.

What You Get Bottles of in the Bathroom: Shampoo and conditioner are yours for the taking. Or the using. We usually just take it and stuff it in a drawer at home and forget about it. Someday we'll bathe.

Clientele: Although it's spiffed up, it is still mainly a draw for the blue-collar locals that live around the Boulder Highway. Some of the former clientele may take their business to the low-rolling Longhorn across the street.

How's the Pool? It's big but as uninspired as the rest of the Eastside Cannery. Basically, this is a large body of water surrounded by a lot of concrete, but not much else.

Table Games: They've got the usual suspects on the casino floor: blackjack, craps, roulette and pai gow. There are usually a few blackjack games going but often just one roulette and one craps in action.

Bet Minimums: We saw $3 blackjack and craps (with 20x odds!!!) during a slow time. Roulette had 50-cent chips and a $2 minimum. You want cheaper? Head across the street to the Longhorn. Just bring a gas mask with you.

Machines: Man, there sure are a lot of machines in this joint, including a good spread of video poker. They claim to be premiering the newest games from one slot vendor, IGT. So, if you're keen to play a new game first, come give it a whirl.

Cocktails? Fair cocktail service, but nothing out of this world. The Boulder Highways joints seem to understand they get a lot of locals and don't want to get them too blotto too quickly.

Who Gets Comps? The CAN Club is the club here. It is decent, but overall slightly below average for off-strip joints. Most play earns less than 0.1% cash-back or free slot play. Table players should be dropping at least $15 a hand for a few hours to expect anything.

Cannery Row Buffet: As decidedly standard and mediocre as the rest of the casino. This buffet is slightly below average with a limited menu. It is primarily here for the people staying at the hotel or who live very nearby, or those who don't know there is better food available elsewhere on the Boulder Strip. On the plus side, it's fairly cheap.

Carve: Steaks, prime rib, something called Yorkshire Pudding and lava cake round out a standard prime rib joint menu that also has chicken and seafood. The room looks nice and it's brighter than the average prime rib place, but the food is as standard as the name. At least you can watch the chefs at work.

Casa Cocina: A play-it-safe Mexican eatery that does Americanized Mexical meals for quite a decent price. The standard fajitas and enchiladas are on the menu. Nothing exotic or original is, though.

One Six: The One Six is a timid attempt at a locals nightclub and eatery atop the hotel tower. First, it's only 16 stories up. Second, the menu is fairly average collection of appetizers, or what are popularly called tapas. The room is nicer than a coffee shop, but not that special. On the plus side, there are cushy seating areas and an outdoor terrace. Only open weekend evenings.

Snaps: A standard coffee shop, which is not a bad thing. Actually, there's nothing wrong with burgers, eggs and hash browns, French Toast, and a smattering of Chinese dishes. All served all day long. Even at four in the morning, which is when we always eat best.

Ballroom: Expect national music acts that have been around a while to play this room with about 1400 seats. Or, if you like, stop in on the nights they have boxing/fights in the room. Maybe one night things will get all confused and Weird Al will get clobbered by Kimbo Slice.

Lounges: Two lounges in the casino offer live music. Pin-ups offers the smaller acts, usually duos or solos. Marilyn's offers the full bands doing covers, with dancing. What's cool is that during the day a retractable wall shrinks this place. At night, the wall goes away and you can literally dance your way right onto the casino floor.

Number of TVs: There are nine screens in the sports book proper, with one of those being large. Six more screens are in the adjacent VP bar and they are tuned to the sports of the day.

Number of Seats: Eighty seats in total, and all but five are with televisions. This sounds about right. Out of every 80 sports betting fans, about five tend to be the Amish, and they tend to not want a TV in front of themselves while wagering. Seats are better than average, but don't have rollers and don't support particularly wide rear ends.

How Many Betting Windows? Eight betting windows for your gambling pleasure. Digital signboards back them up.

Free Drinks? For the snoots laying down $20 a bet, drink tickets are handed out.

Snack Bar? There is a snack bar directly next door serving the things people expect to eat while betting on sports: chicken tandoori. Just kidding, it's the same old sandwiches, pizzas, salads and such. Prices are fair.

Minimum Wager: $5 sports, $2 for racing

Other Notes: They comp for sports bets at 3% for racers and 0.3% for sportsters. The comps can be used in the restaurants. Like most off-strip places, the Eastside Cannery appears to be more interested in race fans than sports fans. That's because they're a bunch of degenerates while sports fans are as pure as the driven snow.

Number of Tables: Eight, with about three to four going most of the time. They are nondescript green felt jobs.

Comfort of Chairs: Exactly average. Actually, these are the chairs we have seen in poker rooms for years. They are disappointing now, though, considering the new, leather, rolling chairs many casinos are putting in. These have no wheels and no leather.

Closed Room or Open to Casino? No, it is open to the casino on one side. The room is large, so the tables aren't crammed together. The walls have a few pieces of art and a couple of TVs that may be too small for the space.

Game Spreads and Limits: Hold 'em rules the land. $2-$4 and $4-$8 with a half-kill are regular, as is a $1-$2 no limit game. They claim to deal a frequent $4-$4 Omaha Hi and an occasional spread stud game, but don't expect those except maybe on weekends.

Beginner Games or Classes? None scheduled, at least not that we could find out about.

How Crowded is the Room? This is not a crowded room, so the wait is usually fifteen minutes at worst. usually, though, no wait.

Comps? One buck an hour for an unlimited number of hours. So, if you play 24 hours a day for a week, you can earn $168. Actually, that makes us jealous. That's more than we get paid.

How Good Are the Players? Games can be pretty rocky as the place draws locals that come here for the low rake. There are much softer games on the Strip, and larger pots down the road at Sam's.

What Else Do I Need to Know? They have cheap morning tournaments every day, but the admin fee is pretty steep considering the prize pool. Like 30%. A $3 dollar max rake on all games is a huge plus for an okay room.