Poker Poker Poker!: [vpFREE] Sam's Town Mystery My Aunt F( )<#!*g Fanny

In the past few years, I have become increasingly upset, annoyed, and flat out pissed off with the apparent lack of gaming knowledge in the industry in general, particularly with Boyd Gaming casinos, and specifically with my home property in the Boyd group, which is Sam's Town here in Las Vegas. It seems that I hear the phrase "stupid with two O's" quite frequently as a progressive type today, get with the times, in the know, speaking style. Although my mover and shaker days are well behind me, I surely want to write like I'm still hip with the times (can we still legally use the word hip for something other than a replacement body structure part?). Since I don't want to plagiarize an entire segment of the population in general, and it seems more correct, you may see me use my version, which is "st00pid with two Zeros". Since Sam's Town was built in 1979, this is the 36th August in a row that they have been up and running as a casino, you would not think that not much in depth research, customer base demographic analysis, or focus group study would be needed to decide what would work to draw bodies into your gamblin' joint during the height of the summer HEAT (anybody know what the hell a Vandella is anyway?) WAVE!! So, it seems quite MYSTERIOUS that they settled on just ONE point multiplier day per week for the entire month of August. To Honor the movie, "Dumb And Dumber", and to further limit the appeal of a single multiplier day,they decided on Wednesday as the day, and to only those of us old farts, like me, over the age of 50 who participate in their Young At Heart Promotion, Hey!!, Sam's, do all of you management mensa candidates realize that the first stepping stone for any casino starts with getting max number of fanny's into the seats? Could it be possible that the aforementioned research, demographics, and focus groups were passed over and instead, in preparation for August, they borrowed a ouija board from one of their bar backs and asked said board for the best road to August success? Is there an unknown competition between the tourists brave enough to overrun our city in a high,( but it's a dry ) heat month of August in order to determine who can melt in it the fastest, locals or visitors?

Let me expound on the real MYSTERY part of this promotion. Sam's executives seem to state, and seriously think that you will believe that, for slot players, you have a chance at up to 50X points, and the video poker players can score up to 30X points. This is a total BULL$#(} lie and it should be viewed as just that by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. As all players will notice, when you are at the kiosk to swipe for your multiplier for that day, you choose one of six icons and your multiplier amount is revealed. For the video poker players, the possible results of your swipe are 4X, 5X, 6X, 10X, 15X, or 30X points. To further perpetrate the lie that Sam's is telling you, when your multiplier is revealed, you also get a quick screenshot that will show what multiplier each of the other five icons had hidden under them. More CRAP lies from Sam's. Even my hillbilly Rocky Mount math tells me that if you have one each of the six choices that I mentioned, that total up to the number 70, and divide by 6, that would leave you with a number that should, over the course of time, average about 11.67X points for the long term. How many trials might be necessary for a 90 or 95 percent certainty level, I do not know, but what I do know and am pasting further down, are the results of every Wednesday that my wife and myself have played since Jan.1, 2014.

Cliff Notes First, 2014---There were 53 Wednesdays in 2014 as Jan. 1 was the first and they last day of the year, Dec. 31 was the 53rd, but with New Years Eve, Sam's had no Young At Heart on that day, and we both played on 49 of them. For her, she had the following multipliers.: 5 days of 4X ,
40 days of 5X , 3 days of 6X, 1 day of 10X, and 1 day of 30X. My results were as follows: 6 days of 4X , 36 days of 5X , 2 days of 6X , 5 days of 10X.

For 2015—As of 8-12-2015, there have been 32 Wednesdays this year, and we have played on 31 of them, our mystery multiplier has averaged 6.2X points, which is more than 46% below what the average should be. She got 4 days of 4X, 17 days of 5X, 5 days of 6X, 1 day of 10X, and 3 days of 15X. I got 2 days of 4X, 18 days of 5X, 7 days of 6X, 1 day of 10X ,and 2 days of 15X.
From Jan. 1, 2014 to Aug. 12, 2015, there have been 84 Wednesdays that the YAH promotion has been offered at Sam's and we both played on 80 of those days. Yeah, I know, I know, BADDD, BADDD, customers. After you have scrolled through my War And Peace sized Chart, I will inform you of an even bigger, and potentially profitable, MYSTERY that some of you may be able to take advantage of.

MS. NUDGE NUDGE
Wed. Jan. 1 '14 NO PLAY NO PLAY
Wed. Jan. 8 '14 5X 4X
Wed. Jan. 15 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Jan. 22 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Jan. 29 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Feb. 5 '14 4X 5X
Wed. Feb. 12 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Feb. 19 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Feb. 26 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Mar. 5 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Mar. 12 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Mar. 19 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Mar. 26 '14 5X 4X
Wed. Apr. 2 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Apr. 9 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Apr. 16 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Apr. 23 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Apr. 30 '14 5X 5X
Wed. May 7 '14 5X 5X
Wed. May 14 '14 5X 5X
Wed. May 21 ;14 5X 4X
Wed. May 28 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Jun. 4 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Jun. 11 '14 NO PLAY NO PLAY
Wed. Jun. 18 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Jun. 25 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Jul. 2 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Jul. 9 '14 5X 6X
Wed. Jul. 16 '14 4X 5X
Wed. Jul. 23 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Jul. 30 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Aug. 6 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Aug. 13 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Aug. 20 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Aug. 27 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Sep. 3 '14 30X 4X
Wed. Sep. 10 '14 5X 4X
Wed. Sep. 17 '14 6X 5X
Wed. Sep. 24 '14 5X 5X

MS. NUDGE NUDGE
Wed. Oct. 1 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Oct. 8 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Oct. 15 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Oct. 22 '14 5X 5X
Wed. Oct. 29 '14 5X 6X
Wed. Nov. 5 '14 4X 5X
Wed. Nov. 12 '14 4X 4X
Wed. Nov. 19 '14 5X 10X
Wed. Nov. 26 '14 10X 10X
Wed. Dec. 3 '14 4X 10X
Wed. Dec. 10 '14 6X 15X
Wed. Dec. 17 '14 6X 10X
Wed. Dec. 24 '14 5X 10X
Wed. Dec. 31 '14 N.A. N.A.
Wed. Jan. 7 '15 5X 5X
Wed. Jan. 14 '15 5X 5X
Wed. Jan. 21 '15 4X 6X
Wed. Jan. 28 '15 4X 5X
Wed. Feb. 4 '15 5X 5X
Wed. Feb. 11 '15 5X 4X
Wed. Feb. 18 '15 15X 15X
Wed. Feb. 25 '15 6X 5X
Wed. Mar. 4 '15 5X 4X
Wed. Mar. 11 '15 5X 5X
Wed. Mar. 18 '15 4X 6X
Wed. Mar. 25 '15 5X 5X
Wed. Apr. 1 '15 5X 5X
Wed. Apr. 8 '15 6X 6X
Wed. Apr. 15 '15 5X 5X
Wed. Apr. 22 '15 4X 5X
Wed. Apr. 29 '15 6X 6X
Wed. May 6 '15 NO PLAY NO PLAY
Wed. May 13 '15 5X 5X
Wed. May 20 '15 10X 10X
Wed. May 27 '15 5X 5X
Wed. June 3 '15 5X 5X
Wed. June 10 '15 15X 5X
Wed. June 17 '15 5X 15X
Wed. July 1 '15 5X 5X
Wed. July 8 '15 6X 6X
Wed. July 15 '15 5X 5X
Wed. July 22 '15 5X 6X
Wed. July 29 '15 15X 5X
Wed. Aug. 5 '15 6X 5X
Wed. Aug. 12 '15 5X 5X
Wed. June 24 '15 5X 6X

With a 1 in 7 legitimate shot, or slightly over a 16 and a half percent chance to pick each number multiplier, would it surprise the Sam's suits that we are upset that on the 80 Wednesdays' that we have played since the first of last year, the wife scored 5X as the kiosk pick on 57 of those tries, and for me a paltry 54 times. That would work out to 71.25% of the time for her and 67.5% of the time for me. Wonder how far down the path to Dementia that the Sam's Town decision makers think that we have all travelled? As I mentioned the long term average multiplier should be around 11.67X points, then it does seem startiling that for the two of us combined, we only had multipliers greater than the average on 7 occasions out of 160 attempts ( 80 days X 2 people ). It's a random my aunt fanny moment when you can clearly see that we are below the long term average more than 90% of the time. If I was truly this unlucky, I would find another hobby.

Now for the bigger MYSTERY that I spoke of earlier. Over the course of time, we have met current friends while playing at Sam's Town and two of them, who I know keep accurate records, have both told me that they get a 10X multiplier or better about 90% of the time. Here's the profit potential. Since Sam's took out 8 of the 10 FPDW quarter machines that they had removed shortly after the first of the year, both of these players, who are older than 50 only play on YAH Wednesday. I don't have any exact figures, but their estimates are that they are only doing about 1/3 to maybe 40 percent of what their former coin in used to be. As their main game was deuces, no surprise that they could go to two of Sam's Henderson similar sized competitors, Boulder Station ( 14 FPDW machines) or Fiesta Henderson (11 machines) instead of an if come, potential fist fight choice of the only two machines at Sam's. So, it looks to me like the old adage of "absence makes the heart grow fonder" which is likely referring to the feelings of your significant other, may also be true for Sam's Town's attitude towards you as a player if you curtail a big percentage of your play there and go play elsewhere. Then your plan would be to only play the one day a week on Wednesday if you are one of us ancient decrepit folks, and even if you are already an Emerald cardholder like both of us, the normal 3X points earned any day should be dwarfed by the 10 or more times that Sam's will likely give you because they miss you. The monthly coin in that we do at Sam's Town averages over $170,000 per month for each of us. Our card score on the machine display is always well over 1,000,000. Looked at my total up through end of July, and it is 1,214,622, so I am on pace to be over 2 MILLION points for this year. So using their form of Casino "logic", if I lop off two thirds of my play, my not so scientific study seems to strongly indicate that Sam's Town will substantially increase our cash back percentage when we go to redeem our points so they can rewarduse for NOT playing there as much as we do now. Also, I am curious if any members have noticed similar strangeness at the other three Boyd B-DIS-connected properties, Suncoast, Gold Coast, and the Orleans. If so, please fill us in.
Nudge

I am considering a number of subject lines for what may be many posts about these properties, such as "Blundering Boyd Brilliance Blog" or for my home casino, "Sam's St00pidy defies Sanity", or similar catchiness. Any suggestions, please shoot me a note. Today, I would like to delve into Sam's most recent st00pid move, which was in the month of August,2015, To add in the casino version of movie comedy, a la Dumb And Dumber, they decided to make it available to all of us old farts that are 50 and older, and it was to be the highly publicized and totally misleading MYSTERY multiplier on Young At Heart Wednesdays, where slot players can get "up to" 50X points, and video poker players could receive "up to" 30X points each Wednesday that they play.

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