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| - If I could give this place zero stars, I would. I should preface my comments by saying my wife and I travel to Las Vegas frequently.
Rivers has a captive audience; they know it and they take full advantage of it.
Ergo: crappy odds on video poker and really no comps to speak of despite playing nearly $30,000 coin in on video poker last year.
Their latest scam is advertising "$5 Blackjack, Roulette & Craps! All Day Everyday!". I was recently at Rivers on Wednesday, Feb. 15 @ 4:30 p.m. Anyone want to take a wild guess at how many $5 blackjack tables there were at this time? Das' right...............1................ONE........in the entire casino; and good luck getting a seat at this ONE $5 table. What a scam. I think the proper phrase is "bait and switch". They have one $5 table open, where it's impossible to get a seat due to full occupancy, so if you want to play blackjack, you have to go to a table with a higher minimum. What a joke. Rivers, you have no shame.
Oh, by the way, I was there last weekend also, looking for a $5 table. You had 4 tables on the weekend. I sat down at one (the only one where I could find an open spot), played around 5 hands, at which time the table minimum was raised to $10.
If you want to play $5 blackjack at The Rivers............go on a Thursday night. At that time they DO have an entire pit of $5 tables. Any other day you're wasting your time.
To be fair, The Meadows isn't much better, although The Meadows DOES have some 9/6 Jacks or Better machines.
If you want to go to a real casino, go to Vegas. These local casinos are consumed with their own greed. They are full of marketing ploys to "get you into the casino", figuring that once you are there, you WILL gamble away some of your money.
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