Comments on: Back from Tahoe to Good Vegas Promos

By: Sheila M Armistead

Sheila M Armistead — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 03:08:31 +0000

I’m one of the ones they “upgraded to “Sapphire from Ruby”. I’ll have the status until the end of 2019, however with their measly comps, no staycation offers (I like those) and tight vp machines, I really don’t see a reason to continue playing at Boyd.

By: Daniel Crowell

Daniel Crowell — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 22:15:18 +0000

I thought those that were Sapphire or above retained that status for this year. Maybe I read that wrong but that would mean in Kevin’s post if you were Ruby before you maintained Ruby. I do agree it’s crazy they excluded their entry tier from accruing comp points though. Just as bad as making 9/6 JOB worth around $100 a tier point for coin-in.

By: Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 07:56:39 +0000

What you didn’t mention about the Boyd 11x multipliers is that they only apply to Sapphire and up, and the vast majority of us got blasted back to Ruby when the slot club was “improved.” It’s also fiendishly hard to claw your way back upward to Sapphire; I forget the exact numbers but I seem to recall that it took $750,000 coin-in on the good machines–which still have a -EV of about a quarter of a percent, meaning you have to lose (on average) about $1800 to regain the status that you–silly bunny!–thought you had earned before. Gonna take a lot of 11xing to make up for that!

By: guest80411

guest80411 — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:38:17 +0000

I guess these places now feel that it is safe increase the frequency of multipliers after they’ve banned so many AP. I really wonder how they choose who to ban. With people who are less than secretive about being AP still being allowed to play, but so many others not…