I am trying to check this out but perhaps someone knows this: is Harrah's Rincon expanding, and adding a new building that will make it larger than Pechanga, and if so, it would make Rincon the biggest casino in the West with more slots and table games than anything in Vegas?
Update at 4:25pm: A host at Rincon confirms that they are expanding their hotel and casino but offered no additional info.
But I found on the web that an environment report was filed on the project because Rincon is on federal trust lands. The report includes:
The expansion will include approximately 16,846 square feet of additional gaming floor, a 2,500-seat multi-purpose room, expanded restaurant and ancillary facilities, a 21-story, 402-room hotel tower, pool area expansion, and an additional surface parking area (Proposed Project).
I can't imagine that Rincon's expansion will make the casino larger than Pechanga's casino. Pechanga's casino has more than 200,000 square feet of gaming space, according to its website. Rincon's casino expansion would be less than 10% of what Pechanga has now.
Frankly, I would hate to see Rincon get too big. I describe as a "Goldilocks casino" in that it's not too big, and it's not too small, but it's just right.
Actually, size does not matter -- but quality matters. I don't care if a casino has sixty table games or 2,000 slot machines. What I care about is that the paytables on the video poker game I play are fair, and that the dealers at the table games are friendly, and I care about a smoke-free gaming area being available when the casino is crowded with smokers.
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