New MRO Posted 1000 coins for Straight Flush

Dan - do you mean like this?

Money Plays

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Seems to me that in the past when the LVA has announced a good deal or coupon like this, they've also included what the best plays are - so it may not bode well if you're looking for a good paytable. If this deal is really that good, I doubt it will last that long (although I have to admit the Terrible's $100 refund has lasted longer than I expected).

fredo

So as I mentioned above, this may not be the "monster" offer that you think it is! It would depend a lot on what the returns are on the pay schedules that are offered there!

So it may or may not be a good deal and then again it might take a long time for it to happen since you're probably looking at about a 1 in 9,200 hands or so average of that specific hand showing up.

RecVPPlayer

My son and I went to Money Plays last Monday night with the four MRO coupons in hand. It was our first night in town, we wanted something quick to eat (free tacos!) and thought lightning might strike with a SF…or two. Found the place a few blocks past the Palms on the south side of Flamingo and pulled into a parking spot right in front.

After our eyes adjusted, saw the u-shaped bar with only a couple of folks there. The old fashioned sliding puck bowling game is on your right as you come in. Don't know how many decades it’s been since I've seen one of those. Had to explain it to my 28-year old son. He was raised on Nintendo so I don't think he was impressed; but I was.

Anyhow, the bartender (foolishly I did not get his name) was very friendly and helpful. I told him we had each had these Las Vegas Advisor coupons for free tacos and we fully intended to hit a SF each so he could pay us 750 more coins. He said great, he’d be happy to do just that, adding that we were his first customers to want to redeem the coupons. He said “good thing” they had just had a staff meeting earlier that day to go over how the new coupons worked. After he left, I commented to my son that it might be a little easier for a Money Plays to inform its, what, maybe ten employees, how a new coupon works as opposed to, say, a Venetian with its 10,000 employees. That is, IF the Venetian ever offered a coupon.

I digress. The nice bartender seemed delighted to see new faces, striking up the “where are you from” and all of that. Nice conversation. He gave us menus for the taco place next door, pointing to the 4-5 taco choices, and said whenever we were ready to order just to let him know. He also offered us “whatever you wanted to drink.” We asked for his best bottled beers as long as they weren’t Guiness-like. He suggested a couple of 9% alcohol brews, and brought them right up. Again, I foolishly can’t remember what they were (I’d never heard of them), but they were just fine. Had they been remarkable I would asked written down the name. We downed two each while there. I’ve paid upwards of $10 for a bottle for high alcohol beer elsewhere; these were free…and effective.

All we could find at our 25-cent level was 6/5 BP which was about what we expected. We played for about an hour and each of us had 4-card drawn SF several times but could never fill them out. Oh well, nothing happened yet we each only dropped $40 each. Could have been better; could have been worse.
When you get 4OAK at Money Plays, the bartender spins a little wheel of fortune type wheel. I never saw anyone get anything better than free drawing tickets for later that week (we’d be gone by then) but I did see from small cash winnings on the wheel and some free food.

At some point, the bartender took our order. He scribbled it down on a piece of paper and said he would take it to the kitchen window in the next room but my son offered to do so instead because he wanted to check it out. “Thanks, fewer steps for me” the bartender said. He pulled out a couple of bartop plate tables and set them up for when the food came.

About ten minutes later, a fellow came with our food to our bartop seats and seemed surprised and pleased when I tipped him a couple of bucks.

We each had one steak and one chicken taco and they were really good. I’m not a taco expert, but I thought they were very good. My son eats Americanized Mexican food several times a week and he loved them. But, of course; food always tastes better when it is comped.

While we took a break from playing to eat, the bartender came over to chat more.

“So tell me about this Las Vegas Trip Advisor thing,” he said.

I said it’s actually just “Las Vegas Advisor” but I added that Money Plays was really smart to get on board with it and that I hoped we were the first of many customers for them from it. I explained how a fellow named Anthony Curtis has been publishing the monthly newsletter for a few decades and how it helps folks like us find special deals in Las Vegas. I said Curtis also publishes books and other gambling related items from his office just north of the Rio.

“Yeah,” the bartender said. “He comes in here every so often. He seems like a pretty sharp fella.”

I told him he was right about that. He seemed thrilled with my $10 tip when we left.

We ended the night with four free tacos, four free quality beers and a couple of thrills as we drew for what we hoped would be the fifth card for a straight flush. Some would say it wasn’t free, that it cost you $80 ($92 with tips), but we don’t look at it like that. We could have easily broke even or could have made $80 bucks…or $1,000.

Thanks Anthony and LVA for another reason to see another corner of Vegas we never would have seen. We encourage all of you to give Money Plays a chance.

Thanks for the in-depth report, schuvy1. Too bad the paytables are terrible, but it might be worth a shot if I'm bored and hungry for tacos.

Thanks for the post. Since I love tacos and like to check out the local joints while in LV, I'll probably give it a shot when I'm out there in a couple of weeks

i have experience running after the SF when binions had 450 payoff for SF. It can be very long between SF, and altering play to catch one never helped me. I really enjoyed comps i built there,and miss going to binions now that full pay and the comps have vanished. Money plays gives away tacos? No wonder anthony loves money plays. Good luck!

Thanks for the report, schuvy1. I'm glad you got a night's food and entertainment out of it.

A couple of small notes:

1) The Venetian DOES offer coupons, elsewhere...
2) There's no need to tell every employee about every coupon, only the ones they're likely to see and redeem.
3) It's good that Money Plays explained their coupons, since I've been to places that seemed to have no clue how the silly things worked.

Just so you people know, I plugged in the 6/5 Bonus Poker pay schedule into VPgenius.com's analyzer and it said that it normally returns 96.8687% with a Variance of 20.6547. But when you have the Straight Flush paying 1,000 coins, that makes the game's return be 98.7884% with a Varaince of 27.1486.

And so the return is still not good and the Variance is getting close to that of 10/7 Double Bonus Poker.

RecVPPlayer

I suspected the paytables weren't going to be good but the brew selection and taco deal might make it worth a pop-in visit. Thanks for the info, schuvy.