East Coast Gambler

I was able to write up much of my recent trip to Atlantic City.  There are a couple more parts to get up, but the major pieces are included in this review.  Pictures say 1,000 words and all pictures from my recent trip to Atlantic City, as well as every casino trip, are on my flickr page.  Some of the pictures don’t make it to ECG because there isn’t always context here.  Now for the week in review.

• Football Picks
• Roundup From All Over
• Bally’s Bikini Beach Bar
• Bally’s Dennis Tower Review
• Holly Madison Signs “Peep Show” Extension
• Borgata Junior Suite Experience
• Review: The Ridge at Bally’s

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I finally made it to The Ridge at Bally’s on my last trip to Atlantic City.  I haven’t heard too much about it, but what I read (and wrote) had me curious.

The Location – The Ridge is located where the old “gateway” games were between the Bally’s Casino and Claridge Casino.  A wall was built to separate The Ridge (and the music) from the machines outside and it does a good job.  More on that later.  Also of note is that the rest of the Claridge casino has been closed and there is a large banner covering up where the Total Rewards desk used to operate.

The Casino – The Ridge is made up of about 24 blackjack table games, a couple roulette and craps tables and a small run of  low limit slot machines.  Table limits are the same low $10 limits that the gateway games used to be.  Dealers dressed and acted very relaxed.  They wore a kind of bowling shirt and were doling out fist pounds for almost every blackjack.

Decor - The decor is blue and gray based with a modern feel to it.  Dealers were dressed in blue bowling type shirts.  Very loose and comfortable looking.

Vibe - The vibe I got was somewhere between a wedding and normal pop music bar.  One night there was just pretty loud new pop music.  After going to the Bikini Bar, I think they just used the same mix that the DJ plays.  When I went on Saturday it felt like dance time at a wedding.  In between the table area is a dance floor.  The DJ was playing a lot of wedding songs inclulding “Jump Around” by House of Pain and a couple of line dances.  A lot of people danced, even a security guard on a segway.

There was a “hype man” for the DJ trying to get people involved with the party vibe The Ridge was going for.  Special occurances got a bang on the gong which sat in the middle of the casino.

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