I almost titled this \u201cMy Video Poker Obituary,\u201d but came to a different conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, Rainbow cut its point promotion by two-thirds and halved the food-comp program. Okay, the new owners realized they were literally giving away the store, but it\u2019s still a great place to play, eat, and win. Are you earning points for the Vegas Aces and Rod Stewart giveaway June 26th<\/sup>? If not, get cracking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now it\u2019s the Downtown Grand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What a great run. It lasted a few years, as it often does, before they tighten the screws. Which they did. For one, they were running a real Gives Good Gamble program and Anthony and I were fully on board. But now, according to VPfree2, DG pulled the plug on the Furnace Bar progressive. Oh, come on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I know they were making oodles of money on that game. There were approximately 24 places at the bar, with people pouring in money night and day, especially when the progressives crept up to and past breakeven. But nope. Gone. The other video isn\u2019t great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My opinion? Plain corporate mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had a conversation with the general manager as to why they no longer give points on e- roulette, a very high-edge game. I\u2019m one of those who works roulette for comps, part of my program to easily earn half-price prime rib and $7 breakfasts with as little as $25 played. Now? Gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The GM\u2019s answer? \u201cComp cheaters!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Oy vey. On a 5+% game? Those \u201ccomp cheaters\u201d playing high-low, red-black, or odd- even were paying the house 5% to earn 2\/10ths of a percent in comps. Cheaters? Seriously? It seems pretty much everyone in this calculation wasn\u2019t playing smart. BTW, when I played for my daily half-price coupon at Freedom Beat, I had an expected loss of $1.25 to $2.50 on a discount worth $7 to $15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So here we are again, moaning like any other Boom baby for the \u201cgood old days\u201d when the music was better and the VP was richer and Giving Good Gamble was what Vegas was all about. But I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What I want you all to know is I researched VPfree2 and found 21 casinos all over Vegas that still offer games from 9\/6 Jacks or Better (99.54%) to 100%+ games and I\u2019ll be reporting on them, and the next places I\u2019ll be frequenting \u2014 where the games are good, the rooms are reasonable, and the fun is real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Until then, remember, that \u201cIt\u2019s not hard to win. It\u2019s hard to walk away a winner\u201d takes work! Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I almost titled this \u201cMy Video Poker Obituary,\u201d but came to a different conclusion. First, Rainbow cut its point promotion by two-thirds and halved the food-comp program. Okay, the new owners realized they were literally giving away the store, but it\u2019s still a great place to play, eat, and win. Are you earning points for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86405,"featured_media":843497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[643,557],"tags":[585],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bobby-vegas-friends-dont-let-friends-play-triple-zero-roulette.jpg?fit=980%2C588&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861530,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861529\/revisions\/861530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}