In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Albert Pearson <ehpee@...> wrote:
<<Tell the "M" management to take a walk down the street to the Southpoint. Tell them to look at the crowds of players and then to look at the machine mix and copy it.
<< No machines with a base game over %100, but a ton of games over %99.
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As is usually the case, ehpee has hit the nail on the noggin!
I have just returned from a stay at SP. The casino was mobbed every day that I was there, including a Monday and a Tuesday, when casino traffic has generally slowed down.
To my knowledge, there were no special SP promos during my SP visit. Just the usual good VP, decent cash back and generous host provided discretionary comps.
Michael Gaughron knows what his local players and his tourist guests require, and provides those things to both groups of patrons. I have stayed at SP several times and both the casino and hotel are always jammed with people.
As for the SP restaurants, I have tried all of them and they range from good (buffet) to excellent (Silverado, Don Vito's and Primarily Prime Rib). IMO, the SP
restaurants compare favorably to those at The M, where I have also stayed, played and eaten frequently.
There is no question that the room amenties at The M are much more luxe than those at SP. However, the SP rooms are just fine. They are large, clean, nicely furnished and on a par with those offered in a mid-level Strip hotel.
One evening I went to The M with two friends. I had $75 of FP to use, and wanted
to try my luck, in pre-determined short session at the FrankNBob bank.
I ran my intial FP up to $150 playing .50c Bonus Aces$, and then went to the prog. bank with my friends. The casino was virtually empty. We were the ONLY
players at the prog. bank at 7:30pm, on a Monday evening.
We sat at three adjacent machines, each of us playing .25c 7/5JOB, with a $2995 RF meter. As I recall, all the other game meters were <$1500 at that time. We were satisfied to play JOB with the normally lower volatility factor. All three of us lasted for about hour and a half, before I requested a group cash out, so that I could return to SP for a decent night's sleep, prior to flying home the next morning.
At the time of cash out, I had $50 of my $150 left in credits, one friend had $45 out of a Bennie, and his wife had $20 left from her $100. So the machines did not
go through our bankrolls at the alarming rate that I had anticipated. However, we were all considerably slowed down from our normal playing speed due to the fact that I was fielding very many "hold" questions. I was the only one that had practiced the strategy on my WinPoker software. I had programmed it for a 7/5JOB/ $3K royal game. That proved prescient. I was pleased to be able to both provide answers to strategy questions, and slow down my losses. {{O:
I will say that playing the prog. was an enjoyable and novel experience ONCE. I'm not sure that I will repeat the adventure in the future.
In fairness, I will also say that The M is one of my very favorite LV residences, and I have always very much enjoyed staying there. I would make my M visits more frequent and of longer duration if they brought back the former prevelant
NSUD games. I DON'T require FPDW or FPJW. When The M offered those games they were only available in single-line quarters. I prefer playing halves these days, and my main game, at the .50c denom is NSUD.
~Babe~
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