I had an unusual experience recently, in earning my Diamond status for this year under the new rules.
I was playing a machine that was clearly marked "$25 to earn one tier point" or something to that effect. I sampled the earnings meter vs time, and playing single-line $1 Jacks or Better, I was earning 50 points on the meter for every 15 minutes (I did two samples that were about the same), indicating I was getting $1250 coin-in per 15 minutes, or $5000 per hour if I maintained that rate (which translates to 1000 hands an hour, about what I usually play).
But when I'd pull my card and re-insert it, my daily earned points always seemed to go up more than the amount on the meter. When I was getting close to 2500 points, and calculating how much more I'd have to play to get there, I'd pull the card and re-insert it, and find that I was getting there faster than I should have.
I ended up earning 2500 points in about 5 hours, which my calculations say should have actually taken about 12-13 hours. I repeated this the next day, earning Diamond in two sessions. Suspicious, I confirmed my earned tier points at the TR desk at the end of each day's play -- and I subsequently received the email confirming the 5000 bonus points for each day, and my online account shows the 15,000 tier credits too.
My experience is more compatible with the old $10 per point - except then, the meter should have been racking up 125 points for every 15 minutes. Is it possible that there are still a few machines floating around that have not been updated to the $25 per point, even though the meter seems to confirm that rate? Or that daily totals are being updated at a lower coin-in requirement than the meter shows? If the meter had shown more points, then I would not, of course, have been surprised to find the totals as I did; it would have definitely been consistent with a $10 per-point machine that had been labeled for $25 per point, but had not been actually "upgraded" (the euphemism that CET is using for new machines with worse pay tables than the old ones).
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
I hesitate to mention this here for fear a "suit" will read it and find and "fix" the machine - but then I decided it wouldn't be that long before that would happen anyway.
--BG
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