Red Hot Devil, the slot that Golden Riviera presented in 2015
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Golden Riviera Casino announced Red Hot Devil, a video slot by Microgaming with a she-devil for hostess, for "this October", and the release gave no year; it went out in 2015 (the game itself dates from February 2015) and it is the text that we keep here. What follows is how the casino sold the game at the time, in the past tense, with the arithmetic that the release left out of it.
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What the casino announced
The release opened by calling the casino "well known and much admired", which is the casino speaking of itself. It described the game as one of the sexiest slots of the moment, added to an immense collection of titles, and the adjectives were the ordinary currency of those texts, which a reader of 2015 learnt to skip as a reader of today skips the superlatives of the listings.
The casino's representative, unnamed, was quoted on the "sultriness" of the game and its she-devil hostess, before declaring that it would be "nearly impossible for one not to walk away pretty well cashed up" after playing it. We report the sentence because it belongs to the record, and because no regulator would let it pass today: a slot that makes losing nearly impossible has never existed, and the writer knew it.
Twenty-five lines, ten free spins and a choice of three features
Red Hot Devil ran on five reels and twenty-five "paylines" that were fixed (you could not choose how many lines to play, since all twenty-five were in play on every spin), and its "wild" symbols (the ones that stand in for any other) opened ten free spins in which up to three reels turned entirely wild on a single spin. Three to five "scatters" (the symbols that pay from any position) offered a choice.
The choice was between two free spins features and a "Pick Until Pop" bonus game: the Red Hot Multiplier gave ten free spins at "up to" ten times. The words up to are the whole point of such a feature: a player who hit the top saw every win of the round multiplied by ten, while a player who hit two saw the same spins pay a fifth of that.
A $1,400 package with a missing percentage
The release counted the welcome package at $1,400 over three deposits, quoted in euro and pounds as well as in dollars, and for once it quoted the third step as a flat "bonus of $750", forgetting the percentage. The first step doubled the deposit (100 per cent) up to $150, the second added a quarter (25 per cent) up to $500 and the third, in the casino's other releases of this archive, was 50 per cent up to that $750.
The ratio deserves a line. Read from the end, the package asked $1,500 at the third step (half of it being the $750), $2,000 at the second (a quarter being the $500) and $150 at the first, that is $3,650 out of the player's pocket for $1,400 of credits, two and a half times the bonus before the first bet was placed! The "wagering" (the turnover demanded before a withdrawal is allowed) went unmentioned, and it was the figure that mattered.
Consultants "well rehearsed", as the release put it
The release promised a round-the-clock chat with consultants "well rehearsed" in answering questions, security software that was frequently updated and games with "crystal clear and realistic imagery". We checked nothing of this in 2015 and we check nothing of it now, because this page records a release and does not review a casino, and what a house says of its own support is the least verifiable line of any text it publishes.
Golden Riviera, the game and the $1,400, in 2026
Golden Riviera was a Vegas Partner Lounge house, beside Casino-Mate, Maple Casino and Crazy Vegas (the other brands of the same group), and we do not work with it today; its old address, at the time of this update, shows a listings site where no casino operates, and nobody can take up the $1,400 of 2015 anywhere, so that the figures on this page are a testimony and nothing more.
Platinum Play, to which the three screenshots of the game link (a sponsored link, declared in the box above), is a Microgaming house of the same period but of a different group, and we still present it. The $1,400 above was never its offer; the terms that it applies today are in the Platinum Play review, written after a session in demo mode.
The publisher of the game changed hands as well: Microgaming's games business passed to Games Global in 2021-2022 (the story is in our Microgaming becomes Apricot article), and whether Red Hot Devil is still in a lobby somewhere we have not checked. If the game turns up in a lobby, its paytable tells you what the release did not.
The Max Damage article shows the same house a few months earlier, the slots played in "demo" are in the slot hub, and the world list has today's offers.
The news archive keeps the rest of the releases of those two years, and a reader who opens three of them in a row finds the same superlatives attached to every game and the same silence on the terms. Here you find the sums.
By the Online-Casinos.ws editorial team · Online since 2002 · Last updated: 9 October 2026