Apologies. You have to TYPE SOMETHING, before clicking the Reply button ... duh.
Here's the latest. They made further changes last week (completed on Wed AM, Jul 6), and the 9/6 Jacks or Better game is back ... for now, anyway.
Here are the current paytables:
25¢ 50¢ $
Jacks 9/5 9/6 9/6
Bonus 7/5 7/5 8/5
D.B. 9/6/4 9/6/4 9/6/5
D.D.B. 8/5 8/5 9/5
BP Deluxe 8/5 8/5 8/6
Dueces, in keeping with a long tradition at the GC, are crappy: 20/12/9/4/4 at 25¢ & 50¢; and 20/12/10/4/4 at $.
Notes.
1. They plan to make at least some of the games progressive, like at the "Sports Bar" in the back corner of the casino; but no one knows exactly what. The Assistant Director of Slots told me that even he doesn't know. He speculated that "...it would probably be on quarters...". The final decision will most likely come from some Boyd Gaming bean counter, completely out of touch with what goes on out on the floor.
2. Although "The Sports Book Bar" is a definitely more descriptive term, and more appropriate for this forum (as well as "VP Lost and Found"), the staff and regulars refer to it as the "Island Bar".
3. Really nerdy, but may be of interest to some. They evidently changed the game platform as well -- the "operating system" to which the game libraries are added. This is completely transparent to the player and has no effect on the games. Physically it exists as just an IC that plugs into the processor board. The reason I'm writing this is that the bartop machines now have "credit slam", or "credit run up", that they didn't have before. When you hit something big, e.g., a quad, you can touch the deal/draw button and the credits are immediately put on the game, rather than you having to watch the meter run. It's a feature that's part of the platform, and not something that the mechanic can enable/disable.
