Like everyone else in St. Louis on Friday night, we wanted to check out the new Downtown St. Louis casino. Lumiere Place was packed Friday night at around 9:30 pm. The line to get a card for the place was about 75 deep. So we skipped the line, walked around the outer part of the casino, saw that drinks were $4.50, and decided to go down to the President Casino.
The President Casino was not packed at all. There were seats at $5 blackjack tables everywhere. I have never seen this. While the President is not the classiest of all of the casinos, it is usually hard to get a $5 blackjack seat. The President has $1.50 drinks, and these drinks are strong. The crowd at the President is probably not the classiest group, but who cares when you want to hang out with some friends, drink and gamble anyways. Maybe this is Pinnacle's plan. Keep all of the undesirable gamblers who don't have a ton of money to throw away, or don't pretend to have a ton of money away from Lumiere Place, but keep the President open for these people to gamble.
Go to Lumiere Place if you want to be with the crowd, pay high prices for drinks and struggle to find a table to gamble. Go to the President if you want to have cheap drinks, and gamble at $5 blackjack tables.
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Good words.
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