Comments on: Las Vegas Changes https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/ A Las Vegas Advisor Blog from the "Queen of Comps" Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:06:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: Dick https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-11071 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:23:41 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-11071 We have been going to Vegas for 15 to 20 years and have watched it’s demise. Once we bought your books and learned to play VP with accuracy, we were able to go nearly free for many, many years. We watched mega casinos be built. We watched casino companies buy up others and get larger and lager. We watched casinos being d-themed. We watched quarter grinders become less and less welcome. We also watched crowds and excitement get smaller and smaller.

We no longer go to Vegas. We have a casinos within a 1 or 2 hours drive. With the frugally that we’ve learned from you, we have decided it is cheaper to drive to a casino with poor pay tables than to fly to those in Vegas with poor pay tables.

Happy Birthday Brad

]]> By: Greg Elder https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-11056 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:49:35 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-11056 Thanks, Doug. I didn’t know that. I’m on the east coast so I only get to Vegas a few times a year. I will definitly check out the Orleans. It’s hard to get away without the little one so always looking for good kid places. Thanks again.

]]> By: Doug https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-11043 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 02:52:28 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-11043 @Greg: you may know this but the Orleans has a nice kids’ club (if that one still exists). We couldn’t tear our kids away from it.

]]> By: Fred Oyang https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-11023 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:10:39 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-11023 Jean: you wrote that the Palms Place spa accepts Palms spa coupons. Does this include the LVA 50% off coupon? I had read in the forum that someone tried to use it at the Palms Place spa and was turned down – this was a few months ago so maybe the policy has changed since then?

]]> By: Greg Elder https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-11014 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:51:06 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-11014 I can’t believe the Palms is getting rid of kids quest. I guess I won’t be staying there anymore with the family. Thanks for the update, did not know this.

]]> By: jack potts https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-11003 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 23:44:06 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-11003 Fiesta Rancho has taken away lots of VP and put in loud playing reels. Besides the element(CHILDREN) is not good for playing. Avoid the Casino.

]]> By: Judy Marshak https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-10994 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:19:39 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-10994 As far as Silverton goes, the old poker room is the “new” tournament area, for their Tuesday slot tournament. Closer to the parking garage, I wonder if it is going to be the new gift giveaway center as well?
If so it is going to be easier to “get in and get out” when picking up gifts.

]]> By: Kevin Lewis https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-10993 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:47:52 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-10993 The “changes” I’ve noticed lately have had more to do with the rapidly accelerating destruction of decent video poker. Whereas the deterioration had been up to this point sporadic and gradual (and even offset by a few casinos actually ADDING decent games), recently, there seems to be a wave of downgrades. This is because a casino that wants to destroy its decent VP now feels safer in doing so because its neighbors/competitors are doing that as well.
The Palms is a great case in point. Their VP used to be good, now it’s mediocre, and it’s continuing to decline rapidly. This has coincided with the wiping out of the last positive games at Gold Coast and Orleans, its most direct competitors.
I recently went to Casino Del Sol in Tucson. There had been a double bank of multi-line games that offered Super Aces and NSUD (99.8/.7), in .05, .10. and .25. The bank had been drastically shorted; the games were now 96%–the worst offered by the manufacturer! Yet, the bank was full–on a Wednesday afternoon, with happy ploppies plugging away. Why WOULDN’T the casino slash its paytables if that didn’t affect play in the slightest?
If in casino patronage, suckers vastly outnumber knowledgeable players, the latter have no leverage and will be ignored by casinos. This is what is finally happening in Las Vegas–the locals are supposed to sit, quivering, in their foreclosed houses and occasionally venture out to blow the unemployment check on 7-5 Bonus Poker.

]]> By: jg thompson https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-10989 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:29:40 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-10989 You should check out the Playboy club, great views of the city

]]> By: Ann Terry https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/las-vegas-changes/comment-page-1/#comment-10988 Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:57:32 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=1911#comment-10988 Thanks for the updates! Give me a call when you visit Columbus again.

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