Riverside Resort Hotel & Casino
N 35° 10.038 W 114° 34.326
11S E 721120 N 3894295
One of the first casinos you see as you enter town from the north, and it bears the name of the town's founder.
Waymark Code: WMBF3V
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 05/13/2011
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from Wikipedia:
Laughlin bought the southern tip of Nevada in 1964 (informally called South Pointe). Laughlin operated the 101 Club in Las Vegas. He opened what would become the Riverside Resort which offered all-you-can-eat chicken dinners for 98 cents, 12 slot machines and two live gambling tables, and 8 motel rooms -- 4 of which were occupied by Don Laughlin's family. Laughlin wanted to call the community "Riverside" or "Casino" but the Post Office opted for Laughlin instead.[1]
Construction of a 14 story hotel/casino tower in 1983 added 253 rooms and in 1986, a second fourteen-floor tower added 307 more rooms and an automotive museum. With free admission to the public, the Riverside's extensive collection is an offshoot of the famous Harrah's collection. The largest expansion came in 1994 with the addition of 800 more rooms for a total of 1404 rooms. A 34 lane bowling center, the only one in Laughlin, was constructed in 1999. Today the resort features a total of 1,400 rooms, and a 6 screen movie theater.
The Riverside poker room is smoke-free and has a large rear window with a sweeping vista of the Colorado river and nearby mountains. The cash games are frequented by a few solid local players, but mostly they're occupied by motor-home driving retirees just visiting Laughlin for the weekend. The $15 buy-in poker tournaments that Riverside holds 3 times daily are shoot-outs that only last one hour (timed), which makes them super-aggressive "All-in" festivals. Choose your starting hands carefully in these tournaments because you must be prepared to call an all-in on the majority of hands, especially in the last 15-20 minutes.
The resort also has a full-service RV park with 740 spaces, as well as several restaurants. The hotel has its own yacht, The U.S.S. Riverside, which is available for charter.
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