{"id":294,"date":"2009-08-10T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/8\/10\/Rivers-Casino-by-the-numbers"},"modified":"2009-08-10T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T21:30:00","slug":"rivers-casino-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/rivers-casino-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Casino by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"414\" height=\"309\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/Rivers_Casino.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that you can play the slots in <strong>Pittsburgh<\/strong>, just what&apos;s on tap? <strong>J.P. Morgan<\/strong> has published the slot inventory of brand new <strong>Rivers Casino<\/strong> and the slot floor (which is 55% reel-spinning) breaks down by denomination as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Pennies: 973<\/p>\n<p>Two-cent: 320<\/p>\n<p>Nickels: 348<\/p>\n<p>Quarters: 673<\/p>\n<p>50-cent: 38<\/p>\n<p>$1: 351<\/p>\n<p>$5: 85<\/p>\n<p>$100: 4<\/p>\n<p>$500: 1 (plus sundry $2, $10, $15 and $25 slots)<\/p>\n<p>Electronic roulette: 26<\/p>\n<p>Electronic blackjack: 70<\/p>\n<p>Three-card poker: 10<\/p>\n<p>Interesting to see how penny slots, despite being a poorer value play, are now dominant over quarter machines and have thoroughly routed nickel slots. Congratulations to <strong>Neil Bluhm<\/strong> and his executive team for getting Rivers Casino up and running in what seems like no time at all, especially after initial developer <strong>Don Barden<\/strong> had left it stuck in the mud. Thankfully, the only lasting damage will be to Barden&apos;s ability to get future casino licenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that you can play the slots in Pittsburgh, just what&apos;s on tap? J.P. Morgan has published the slot inventory of brand new Rivers Casino and the slot floor (which is 55% reel-spinning) breaks down by denomination as follows: Pennies: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/rivers-casino-by-the-numbers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83,91,95,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}