Riverwind Casino...

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Is it open yet?:confused:

[SeattleOUstudent]

Be Captivated.

[OKC-SLC]

I just happened across this article online this am.

http://www.newsok.com/article/2776004

Crowd spoils 'soft' opening


GOLDSBY - So much for the planned "soft" opening.
Chickasaw Enterprises planned to open the state's largest casino last week with no announcement or fanfare, the theory being management could work out any kinks amid a few customers before an Aug. 10 grand opening.







Word of mouth and one display sign reading "Now Open" spoiled those plans.

When the casino opened at 11:59 p.m. Monday, 2,000 gamblers were lined up outside, all wanting a first crack at Riverwind Casino's 2,200 electronic gambling machines and 71 card tables.

Not that Brian Campbell is complaining.

"It was probably a few more than I was expecting. They were just pouring in," said Campbell, chief executive officer of Chickasaw Enterprises, the business arm of the Chickasaw Nation.

[walkoffsooner]

sticky bandits

[LilSooner]

It is open. Mom said that be prepare to fill out a bunch of crap. You have to get one of those player cards before you can play.

[OUHOMER]

They mailed me a players card :D . I guess if you ever played at Winstar you are already signed up. Also I get a free gift:D I need another plastic travel cup:rolleyes:

[Big Red Ron]

New recruiting tool for our Sooners. ;)

[Boarder]

It's definitely open. The traffic is crazy in the evenings. They have an auxillary parking lot just north of Total Truck and Trailer with shuttles to the casino. I can't imagine when it has a "Grand Opening".

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Well I have a job interview there and I was wondering if I was looking at starting two months from now...I guess not :P

[jk the sooner fan]

this will make southbound game day traffic more interesting to say the least

[StoopTroup]

They mailed me a players card :D . I guess if you ever played at Winstar you are already signed up. Also I get a free gift:D I need another plastic travel cup:rolleyes:
Is it bigger than the Soonerfans.com Travel Cup Sponsorship free gift?

[tulsaoilerfan]

Where is this place? I have been seeing ads in the papers for a few weeks but it was never mentioned where the place was located.

[jk the sooner fan]

hwy 9 and I-35

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Chickasha Exit ;)

[Boarder]

Hwy 9 WEST and I-35. :D

Exit 106. It's hard to miss. Any time there's been heavy traffic, they have Johhny Law out directing, so it may not be too bad.

[yermom]

i was thinking the gameday players from out of town might be fun to fleece at the poker tables ;)

[Sooner_Bob]

Well I have a job interview there and I was wondering if I was looking at starting two months from now...I guess not :P


My sister in-law works for them in personnel I believe . . .

[soonerbrat]

poker tables?

[ultimatesooner1]

poker tables?


yes

[mdklatt]

poker?

I hardly know her!

[Big Red Ron]

I hardly know her!heh

[OhU1]

I keep thinking the novelty of these Indian Casinos will wear off and I continue to be wrong.

[mdklatt]

I keep thinking the novelty of these Indian Casinos will wear off and I continue to be wrong.

We must be trying to displace Mississippi as the poorest state. :cool:

[OUDoc]

We must be trying to displace Mississippi as the poorest state. :cool:
As long as the money remains in-state, our average should hold up. :O

[mdklatt]

As long as the money remains in-state, our average should hold up. :O

Yeah, I guess it would. Not if you're looking at median income, though.

[OhU1]

Doesn't a lot of the casino money go to the out of state companies that actually run these outfits?

[yermom]

I keep thinking the novelty of these Indian Casinos will wear off and I continue to be wrong.

i don't know about the novelty... but i can't imagine we can support so many

[mdklatt]

i don't know about the novelty... but i can't imagine we can support so many

Stupidity is a renewable resource. :D

[yermom]

yeah, but you can only go to one at a time...

[mdklatt]

yeah, but you can only go to one at a time...

The one on I-35 at the border draws in a seemingly endless stream of cars from Texas, so it's not just local hillbillies who are ****ing their money away.

Maybe that will help even out our foreign trade imbalance with the Gainesville outlet mall.

[yermom]

i mean Thunderbird, Riverwind and Newcastle

those are just the ones i have been to that are basically on Hwy 9, they seem awful close to each other

i can't imagine i'll go to Thunderbird or Newcastle much anymore unless the poker room succs at Riverwind... not that i go that often anyway

[mdklatt]

i mean Thunderbird, Riverwind and Newcastle

those are just the ones i have been to that are basically on Hwy 9, they seem awful close to each other



Do each of those belong to a different tribe?

[jk the sooner fan]

i have nothing against casinos in general, but i hate that this new one is so close to the university...

and the winstar casino on the state line had a full parking lot sunday morning at 9am

[OhU1]

i mean Thunderbird, Riverwind and Newcastle



Did you forget the Goldsby Gaming Center which is basically across the highway from Riverwind? I didn't even know it was there until last month.

[mdklatt]

and the winstar casino on the state line had a full parking lot sunday morning at 9am

What were you doing there? :D

[yermom]

Did you forget the Goldsby Gaming Center which is basically across the highway from Riverwind? I didn't even know it was there until last month.

i've never been there, but my understanding is that this one is replacing that one

[1stTimeCaller]

I think a guy could get rich by opening a pawn shop within a mile of any Indian Casino.

[yermom]

heh, this is a great idea

[jk the sooner fan]

What were you doing there? :D

driving by it! i met my son at the davis exit sunday morning to take a car to him

[mdklatt]

I think a guy could get rich by opening a pawn shop within a mile of any Indian Casino.

Does Cash America sell franchises?

People will eventually run out of stuff to sell, but payday loans are the gift that keeps on giving. :texan:

I wonder if there are laws about those kind of places being near casinos? If not, I'm sure they'd be there already.

[TopDaugIn2000]

yes, the overflow lot has a shuttle bus to take ya over, and the bus drivers will plow over your *** too. not kidding. bussin the blue-haired's must be a stressful, hurried, job.

it opened at midnight last tuesday, and people were LINED UP outside the door at 9:30. There was a countdown up on their big screen as to how many hours/minutes until they opened.

Power went out for about 3 hours Wednesday (I think), and they didn't have their 3 HUGE deisel generators going (must not have had any fuel in that big tank they burried right outside the casino). When we drove by thursday after work ALL 3 generators were huffin and puffin, guess they had another power outage, and fuel this time to cover it.

Another HUGE one is being built just this side of shawnee, along with hotels and such all around it. And they put in a rather large one on the OK/AR border, just before you enter Ft. Smith. It's ALWAYS packed as well. (and there's a pawn shop on one side of it, and a porn shop on the other.....someone beat ya to it)

[mdklatt]

And they put in a rather large one on the OK/AR border, just before you enter Ft. Smith. It's ALWAYS packed as well.

Along I-40? I was there last month and didn't notice it.



and there's a pawn shop on one side of it, and a porn shop on the other...

You stay classy, Oklahoma! It's odd that the porn shop is on this side of border. I guess Arkansas is even more Baptist than we are.

[TopDaugIn2000]

no, it's along HWY 9 (271), as you go from Spiro thru Pocola into Ft. Smith (called I-540 in FSM)

[mdklatt]

no, it's along HWY 9 (271), as you go from Spiro thru Pocola into Ft. Smith (called I-540 in FSM)

It sounds like they should designate SH-9 as the Oklahoma Casino Corridor.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Well I got a jobby job!!! The thing with the Casino's is that they are alot nicer to work at than say McDonald's. Plus I got the added bonus of getting a job where I don't have to deal with customers except the ones that win over 1199$ so I am happy :P

[Sooner_Bob]

congrats . . .

[yermom]

Well I got a jobby job!!! The thing with the Casino's is that they are alot nicer to work at than say McDonald's. Plus I got the added bonus of getting a job where I don't have to deal with customers except the ones that win over 1199$ so I am happy :P

wow, they still hiring? ;)

do they pay pretty well?

[Soonrboy]

They pay for full insurance for you just for working there part time...that's pretty cool. That tribe really uses its money well.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Yep plus you get a free ham at Christmas, a 200$ bonus if you are part time 400$ if you are full time!!

[nanimonai]

They can pay whatever with whatever benefits becuase they know you're just going to give it back playing the slots on your lunchbreak. ;)

[soonerbrat]

yes, the overflow lot has a shuttle bus to take ya over, and the bus drivers will plow over your *** too. not kidding. bussin the blue-haired's must be a stressful, hurried, job.

it opened at midnight last tuesday, and people were LINED UP outside the door at 9:30. There was a countdown up on their big screen as to how many hours/minutes until they opened.

Power went out for about 3 hours Wednesday (I think), and they didn't have their 3 HUGE deisel generators going (must not have had any fuel in that big tank they burried right outside the casino). When we drove by thursday after work ALL 3 generators were huffin and puffin, guess they had another power outage, and fuel this time to cover it.

Another HUGE one is being built just this side of shawnee, along with hotels and such all around it. And they put in a rather large one on the OK/AR border, just before you enter Ft. Smith. It's ALWAYS packed as well. (and there's a pawn shop on one side of it, and a porn shop on the other.....someone beat ya to it)

yep, that's firelake..that one is owned by the tribe of which I am a member.

[tulsaoilerfan]

Does Cash America sell franchises?

People will eventually run out of stuff to sell, but payday loans are the gift that keeps on giving. :texan:

I wonder if there are laws about those kind of places being near casinos? If not, I'm sure they'd be there already.
They would probably be inside the casinos, if that was allowed:D

[phead903]

Another HUGE one is being built just this side of shawnee, along with hotels and such all around it. And they put in a rather large one on the OK/AR border, just before you enter Ft. Smith. It's ALWAYS packed as well. (and there's a pawn shop on one side of it, and a porn shop on the other.....someone beat ya to it)

There is also another casino in Roland just west of Fort Smith on 64 that is run by the Cherokees...and a big developer in Fort Smith (if there is such a thing) leased some land along the Arkansas River (on the Arkansas side)to the Ketowah tribe to build a casino there if he can convince Fort Smith to approve gambling. That would be 3 casinos within about a 10 mile radius!

[TopDaugIn2000]

yeah, I've heard about the one going in on the river. isn't it supposed to be one of the river boat ones or something?

I'm originally from Spiro, and the family still keeps me posted on the happenings of that area.

[Rusher]

University kids who likes to play tables most likely would change their hangout places from their houses to Riverwind since it's so close (my 2 buddies will). The reward is bigger but it's also an easy way to lose student loan pretty fast.

[yermom]

there are/were home games around Norman that are as high or higher than what are at the casinos...

i haven't been in that scene for a while though, i'm not sure how these new poker rooms have affected them

[Rusher]

I'll just stick with Bingo, thank you :)

[silverwheels]

Broke even at the blackjack tables tonight. First time playing table games (not old enough to go to Vegas or Atlantic City until December), so I didn't do too bad.


And there were current (and perhaps past) Sooners there. Larry Birdine is a large man.

[Sooner_Bob]

Another HUGE one is being built just this side of shawnee, along with hotels and such all around it. And they put in a rather large one on the OK/AR border, just before you enter Ft. Smith. It's ALWAYS packed as well. (and there's a pawn shop on one side of it, and a porn shop on the other.....someone beat ya to it)


It's even more interesting to do the health, safety and food inspections on these things . . . :pop:

[critical_phil]

i spent a few hours in the poker room at riverwind this afternoon.

http://www.imheavyduty.com/wp/wp-content/images/music/YoakamDwightHillbillyDeluxe.jpg

[Boarder]

I'm definitely going to see Dwight whe he comes there.

[OklahomaTuba]

Casinos don't bother me, but the explosion of these things really does. And already I have a couple of family members who seem to be developing a slight addiction to these places and losing their money.

Its really to bad Oklahoma couldn't have just setup a town for all this and made it a single destination area, instead of having one in every town. Also sad that government and gaming are going to be the states two largest employers.

[tulsaoilerfan]

So has anyone struck it rich here yet? :pop:

[OUHOMER]

my boss has won $6000 in 2 visits

[boomersooner28]

*** ATTENTION PEOPLE!!! ***


IF YOU GAMBLE >>> YOU WILL LOSE $$$!!!! PERIOD!




Ok, now I feel better.

[silverwheels]

*** ATTENTION PEOPLE!!! ***


IF YOU GAMBLE >>> YOU WILL LOSE $$$!!!! PERIOD!




Ok, now I feel better.

Not every time.

[Okla-homey]

Casinos don't bother me, but the explosion of these things really does. And already I have a couple of family members who seem to be developing a slight addiction to these places and losing their money.

Its really to bad Oklahoma couldn't have just setup a town for all this and made it a single destination area, instead of having one in every town. Also sad that government and gaming are going to be the states two largest employers.


BBBBBBut Tuba! We hillbillies is gonna gamble ourselves to prosperity just like the lottery has made OK government-run publick skools numba ONE! Just ask our boy governor.

[OUHOMER]

I didnt think the state could regulate the casinos, or where they were build?

[IB4OU2]

The few times I've gone to the casino here to pickup tobacco products from the smokeshop, I see a lot of elderly and poor folks go in there and they're the ones that need to waste money and time there the least. I'll just stick with our local neighborhood every week or so poker game. Atleast I know and control how much I'm losing. ;)

[critical_phil]

So has anyone struck it rich here yet? :pop:



when i left, i was up 2 bills playing 1/2 NL hold 'em after about 2 hours. not striking it rich by any means, but not bad for 2 hours of work.



the place is pretty nice, but don't get your hopes up. 95% of the place is made up of those stupid machines (and the type of people that play such machines - which was where i was going with the hillbilly deluxe reference).

the blackjack tables have that stupid .50/hand ante, which means the house has you by about 15% on a $5 bet. there's no way you could get me near one of those tables.

the OTB is nice, but small. unlike the poker area, it isn't non-smoking:mad:.

the poker area is about 1/2 the size it needs to be for the number of tables they're running. i probably won't go back until some of the novelty wears off.


also, there were no omaha tables:mad::mad::mad:.

[GDC]

I'm definitely going to see Dwight whe he comes there.

Saw him at the Brady Theater in Tulsa the night before Thanksgiving last year, he puts on a great show.

[Boarder]

I went there last night. Unfortunately, it was a really nice experience. I had fun playing blackjack. I don't even mind the .50 thing, but I don't play $5 a hand, either.

I thought it was very well decorated, nice and bright, clean, friendly, etc. Not bad at all. Reminded me of a small Vegas casino. No craps, though. :(

I'll be going back...sadly enough.


btw, the Mexican restaurant is a New Mexican restaurant as in the state of New Mexico. That means they have green chilies in everything which in turn means I'm going to go try it.

[yermom]

ooh. New Mexican

i heard a dealer from Dirtybird talking about something up for a vote in November about allowing Roulette, Craps, etc... anyone know about that?

[Boarder]

ooh. New Mexican

i heard a dealer from Dirtybird talking about something up for a vote in November about allowing Roulette, Craps, etc... anyone know about that?
I bet it'll be a hush hush type of thing that just slides through, if they're doing it.

[Okla-homey]

Its really to bad Oklahoma couldn't have just setup a town for all this and made it a single destination area, instead of having one in every town.

Think about it. The fight among the politicians to get "OkVegas" situated in their district would have made such a thing absolutely unworkable. They would have literally committed acts of violence on each other...hey, that would have been cool to watch, huh?

[nanimonai]

They might as well just go all-out and have regular casino gaming.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

The Indian tribes pay good money to the politicians to avoid that all-out regular Casino gambling. They don't want's Harrah's coming to town.