Casino de Montréal

This guide to the Casino de Montréal follows Claude Martin, a construction worker in his sixties who came up from the Lanaudière region for a Roch Voisine concert and almost skipped an extra five-dollar side bet at a Three Card Poker table one January weekend in 2023. It then steps back to the building itself, a France pavilion built for Expo 67 by architect Jean Faugeron that sat mostly empty for a quarter century before Quebec spent millions turning it into a casino. You'll hear how the pavilion opened in October 1993 and drew crowds within weeks. Somewhere on today's gaming floor is the table where a man who came for a concert changed his plans.