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| - Really torn on Rivers Casino....
The good: Personally, I really like it. Go down to play poker about once a week, and I love their poker room. It's open, spacious, comfortable, and pretty busy.
The casino interior is nice, looks a lot better than your average non-Vegas slots parlors across the country.
I enjoyed the buffet all but one trip, but that was really late right before they closed, so it wasn't busy and the food wasn't being filled fresh. Every other time was really good.
It's really convenient. Even though the garage is fugly, it's extremely easy to get in and out. I live in Brookline, and I can walk out my front door and have my butt in a poker seat in about ten minutes!
The Bad: Smoky!! I don't smoke, and the poker room is non smoking, but one trip across the casino and I get home smelling like an ash tray.
Table stakes can be kinda high. I like to play craps, $10 minimum bet is fine, but I've NEVER seen $5 stakes, and often it's just $15 and $25. I understand it's a business and if they're getting the action they can keep stakes high, but I'd like to get some more play out of my money. Atleast they didn't go to 6:5 Blackjack like a lot of Vegas casinos are.
Maybe it's just me, but I think it looks cheap from the outside. The color changing part is cool, but the rest of the exterior just doesn't seem like quality material or unique architecture.
The Hideously Ugly: The parking garage!! I remember thinking the riverlife organization, or whatever they're called, were being babies when they made a stink about how bad the garage was gonna look, but they're right! It's definitely a monstrous eyesore, and the 'decorative' metal they put on the outside doesn't help much. And there's the big cheesy yellow lettering 'CASINO' you see from the west end bridge and Carson St, which I don't get when they could have used the sweet Rivers logo they have.
I want to give Rivers 4 stars, but I can't ignore the smoke and garage, which almost drop it to a 2 for me.
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