Rhonda Ren drove from Craig to Klawock two days in a row to play the machines at the Klawock Casino.
“I had lots of luck yesterday,” Ren said while sitting in front of a machine. “I did great.”
Nearby, Robert Baza was coming away from his machine with $300. He had heard that the Klawock Cooperative Association opened the casino early last month, and wanted to try it out.
“Oh, it’s pretty good,” he said. “It’s paid off.”
Gaming isn’t new to Klawock — before COVID-19 came to the island, the Tribe hosted regular bingo games and pull tabs. But now, they’ve added more than 20 bingo machines to the casino, which shares space with the mini-mart and smoke shop in the heart of town.
