Mayor Lori Lightfoot has chosen the political path of least resistance by putting her chips on Bally’s River West bid for a Chicago casino.

But that doesn’t mean she’ll have an easy time parlaying that pick into a winning hand in the City Council. That takes 26 votes, and local Ald. Walter Burnett (27th) can cast only one.

Burnett may be willing to swallow the inconvenience of a casino in his ward, but he sure sounded this week like he’s in no mood to help the mayor round up those votes.

“As far as I’m concerned, this is the mayor’s game. This is her thing. It didn’t come from the aldermen. It’s not aldermanic prerogative. This is coming from the top down to us,” he told the Chicago Sun-Times this week.