Inventory at River Palms remains stable....no changes, but some machines
moved around. The Winner's Wharf was shifted to the east, next to the Sports
Book. It's cramped, and hot. They only have a couple a/c vents to serve the
entire area. I think they cranked up the air throughout the whole casino to
respond to complaints from people playing in the Wharf....everywhere else it was
cold.
They put in lots of new penny machines in the area where the wharf was
located. There are three Multi-Strikes. I don't know the multi-strike strategy so
I didn't check paytables. There are also three Spin Pokers in either 1 cent,
2 cent or 5 cent denominations. The 5 cent deuces is NSU and the bonus poker
at 5 cent is 8/5.
Tom and I played a couple hours at one of the 7/5 bonus progressive banks
yesterday afternoon. The royal was over $1800 and the Ace's were over $180. We
didn't hit either, but lost very little trying.
When we got home today, our River Palms July offer was in the mail. Same as
the last couple months.....lousy! I have two coupons for $30 and 2 free
nights; Tom has two coupons for $20 and 2 free nights. Just a few months ago we
were collecting over $400 in bounceback from RP. Now the bounceback doesn't pay
for our gas to get up there. We have continued to give them the same amount
of action, but that will probably change next month.
Joan & Tom in Phoenix
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