I agree 100% with what you mention. To me it's more than just good vp. Maybe everything is too big. Geeze, I used to pull to back of Stardust and walk in. Frontier pull up front and valet and get car back in 3 minutes. Almost everyplace in town just as easy. When Mirage was built is when everything started down hill. Every place had to be mega resort. I liked it at first. Now big has lost it's charm for me.
Just my opinion. But, bankruptcy court might indicate lots of other people aren't having fun either.
Cheers.......Jeep Jeep, My intention was to respond to you and not the whole group, but I can't figure out an easy way to do it (I'm sure my advanced age is a factor), so I guess the whole group will have to put up with my ramblings. Way before my wife and I met (20 plus years ago) and we began enjoying playing VP side by side, my "go to game" was Texas Holdem and two of my favorite haunts, when I was in town on vacation, were Binon's Horseshoe and the Stardust. Except for the smoke and the occasional obnoxious player, I loved the interaction between players.The dealer usually did an excellent job of keeping things under control. Then my wife and I met and I got her playing VP to allow me to continue to the poker room while she puttered away at low limit VP. Next thing I knew she was getting free room, free food, free cashback, etc. offers in the mail.All I was getting was maybe a free buffet offer IF I asked for it from the dealer after a couple hours of play. Although I fancied myself a decent Texas Holdem player (I had played a good bit in private games in Texas in the early 70's), I was barely winning enough to cover room and food costs.I had bought her a book on optimum play VP for the game she was playing (10/6 or 9/7 JOB at Vegas World) and suddenly she was winning, on average, just as much, PLUS getting all these great offers in the mail. That's when we started playing VP together.It was great to be able to get up and move if a smoker sat down next to us (and there were plenty of 100%+ payback machines to move to).We could quit and take a break after a jackpot without some snide comment from the table, and we started receiving even better offers in the mail. Nowadays, it's a challenge to find a decent paying VP game, and when you do, more often than not the rewards credit buildup is reduced to a ridiculously low amount.Sign of the times, I suppose. I guess I should be happy for what we do have, but I do miss the "good ol' days" We plan on being in Vegas for 5 days starting on January 27th, then North Shore (Incline Village) Tahoe for a week, followed by three nights in Laughlin. We'd love to meet others in the group if your travel plans happen to coincide. Jim
On Thursday, January 15, 2015 9:19 PM, "whitejeeps@yahoo.com [vpFREE]" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Jim
In addition, the places aren't fun anymore. Less comps, entertainment, promotions, good games and everything else. Used to be employees interacted with us customers. Now our needs are filled with a robot. After interacting with AT&T, Electric Company, Bank and others by punching numbers and letters into phone pad, I am not ready food casino getaway and enjoy a comp issued at kiosk. Slot tournament; print the ticket, wait in line and have fun. The machine reads you score and a "tv" screen notifies you if you won. WOW, how exciting. Back in dat, we met with host and enjoyed the interaction. On way out door, after losing our ass, our host would help us feel sorry for ourselves.
I agree 100% with what you mention. To me it's more than just good vp. Maybe everything is too big. Geeze, I used to pull to back of Stardust and walk in. Frontier pull up front and valet and get car back in 3 minutes. Almost everyplace in town just as easy. When Mirage was built is when everything started down hill. Every place had to be mega resort. I liked it at first. Now big has lost it's charm for me.
Just my opinion. But, bankruptcy court might indicate lots of other people aren't having fun either.
Cheers.......Jeep
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