Boyd is just doing the same as a lot of other casinos, except that they are stating it in writing .
The money going out is the same, of course, but I guess they would rather see the money going to those
that contribute more to their bottom line.
Playing the game well doesn't make you an advantage player. You are an advantage player if you play the game well, plus only play when there is a promotion to make the game positive.
So if you only go to Sam's Town on YAH days and only play till you max out the bonus points, and the only other times you play are when they have other good promotions, it will not be difficult for a database search to pinpoint you as an advantage player.
Boyd has done a lot of things over the past few years to discourage people from playing there, and I am in no
way agreeing with a lot of their moves, but I do realize that they aren't a charity. If I ran a casino I'd also try to discourage advantage players, because I'd like to stay in business.
Regards
A.P.
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From: "'nudge51' nudge51@cox.net [vpFREE]" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 9, 2017 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] New Boyd Rule YAH
From: theozarkkid@yahoo.com [vpFREE]
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2017 11:16 AM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] New Boyd Rule YAH
>Don't you think this would fail miserably in court if a determined
legal challenge was presented? By their definition, by deciding to play 9/6 JOB
rather than 9/5 I am an advantage player. Give me a break.
>Posted by: theozarkkid@yahoo.com
First, I thought it to be quite humorous that in your first sentence, you
properly used the word determined, which is opposite of what the legal
department bozos at Boyd Gaming did when they composed their first sentence of
this new and improved rule number 24. How many of you got a giggle when
you read the beginning of the rule and realized that they meant to use the word
determine, not determined? I wonder if somewhere on this gargantuan world
wide inner web thing if there is a site like verbadverdadjectivenoun.com.
This is just the latest chapter of B.B.B.B. (Bumbling Boyd Bozo Brilliance) for
those of you scoring at home.
Let's look at this using logic, which is something that very few of the
corporate casino behemoths use. This new "restriction" certainly cannot be
a financial decision, as if they plan to continue the YAH (Young At Heart)
promotion, they will STILL be giving away the same $2,500 per week that they
always have. The first name drawn will STILL receive $500 cash, or $550 in
free slot dollars, should the winner prefer that option. The other 20
names drawn will STILL be receiving $100 cash, or $110 in free slot dollars, if
they choose. The same amount of money is STILL coming out of their
promotional budget, so what difference can it make to Sam's Town who the names
belong to? I once recall a friend having his name called with less than 20
of his tickets in the "virtual drawing drum". Could it make any difference
to the corporate owner, Boyd Gaming, what names are on this list? I can
easily answer all of these questions, so I imagine that these queries are only a
mystery and food for the thoughtless clueless executive MANGLEMENT of this
property. Why can't we all go back in time before the late bastard
billionaire, Howard Hughes, and his good bud, H. Parry Thomas (of Thomas &
Mack fame) were the catalysts to convince our Nevada Legislature to change the
rules to permit corporations to own a casino? If you really want to make a
good guestimate as to an initial detriment point for all Nevada gamblers in our
fair state, then you would really have to give this time period some serious
thought. Since the emergence of corporate casino ownership, with a myriad
of bean counting departments included, most of these executive pinheads have
erroneously adopted the business plans of a fortune 500 type business
plan. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong!! Think it through. These real
corporate concerns, some publicly traded and some not, offer to their customers
products and/or services. When you consider a gambling entity at it's
basic core, without fluff and frill, casinos do not offer either. Damn, I
actually miss the mob. This was when "Theo" was only a character on the
Cosby show.
Speaking of going back in time, lets just go back less than 5 years
ago. Since it is a short hop, I didn't need Sherman, Mr. Peabody, and the
wayback machine. I will pinpoint our stop to April of 2012. This
happens to be the arrival of the latest manglement crew at Sam's Town, G.M. John
Sou and Slot DUUHH-rector Dennis Martinson. The top dog may be somewhat
confused, as his LinkedIn profile currently states that he is the V.P. and G.M.
at the Freemont. In the summer of 2012, either Boyd or Sam's hired a world
renowned and extremely intelligent and quite well known instructor to offer
training classes to the clients/players at Sam's Town Gambling Hall and
Saloon. Since I know this video poker professor extraordinaire personally,
I am not going to insult him by including his name in the same paragraph with
the other two names I have already mentioned. This insightful instructor
proffered up his wisdom to students in about 10 different video poker related
classes during the months of July and August of the year 2012. Since I
alluded to our top teacher being smart, I am reasonably sure that he was paid
for his valuable knowledge sharing in said classes, either by Boyd or by Sam's
Town.
With no DeLorean needed, let's head back to the present to the new
year of 2017. I'm guessing that in some kind of a boardroom meeting at the
struggling Sam's property, after they determined how their current cliff dive
was going, they sat around with, say a dozen suits, flipping quarters.
When player names came up on the monitors, if five or more quarter flips came up
tails, that person will be designated as an "advantage" player. How did it
not come up in this executive excursion in stupidity that the same (expletive)
executives were responsible for training their clients to be better video poker
players, and paid someone to do it? Could this possibly get more ludicrous
than it is? The casino that sponsored training for it's players, and paid
someone to teach them, are now going to try to penalize these players for
learning to play better. This truth is DEFINITELY stranger than fiction
and seems actually un-American. Is there more on this? You bet. The
next meeting of the N.G.C.B. (Nevada Goofball Control Board) is this
Wednesday. Is what Sam's is trying to do legal? My feeling is that
it has to be a violation of Regulation 5. This promotion is advertised to
the public all across the valley to the public at large. I am trying to
get info as I type. Those that would like to pose a query to the board can
do so at this email address:
liaison@gcb.nv.gov
Stay tuned.
nudge
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