{"id":5931,"date":"2011-03-09T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5931"},"modified":"2011-03-09T14:49:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T22:49:51","slug":"boyd-the-rest-of-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/boyd-the-rest-of-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyd: The rest of the story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"There’s a bit of scuttlebutt going around about Boyd Gaming<\/strong> retracting coupon offers. To wit, from the S&G<\/em> mailbag: “There’s this story going around, Suncoast<\/strong>\/Boyd advertised in the [Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>], and gave 10x points coupons for every Wednesday in [March]. When some video poker players tried to play after redeeming the coupon, they were trespassed by management. That’s right, for playing a coupon advertised in the R-J<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

I put the matter to Boyd, whose official response is as follows: “Some known advantage players, who redeemed 10X coupons after play on high-limit poker machines, have been advised that they would no longer be welcome at the Suncoast. These players had been previously warned about using multiplier coupons in this manner at the property<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

While “advantage play” on a computer-randomized machine sounds oxymoronic, I’m sure that Bob Dancer<\/strong><\/a> or Jean Scott<\/strong><\/a> could explain how it’s accomplished. (It involves an inverse proportional ration between coin-in and points accrued.) Penalizing skilled gamblers for knowing how to work the system (as opposed to cheating) hardly seems like fair play, but Anthony Curtis<\/strong> tells me this is a pretty common occurrence in Las Vegas<\/strong> and the 86’d players can’t they weren’t warned.<\/p>\n

\"\"V: The Sequel<\/strong>. Yesterday’s entry on Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> proteg\u00e9 ” V for<\/strong> Victor” Chaltiel<\/strong> brought an interesting wave of Facebook<\/strong> comments. They can be summarized as follows: If you like Adelson, you’ll just love Chaltiel.<\/p>\n

As for V<\/em> the television series, the keen-eyed could spot Stanley Ho<\/strong>‘s lotus-shaped Grand Lisboa<\/strong> during an around-the-globe montage early in last night’s episode. The Visitors’ global-conquest agenda, though, is more in the style of Adelson — who unfortunately bears no resemblance to the fetching Morena Baccarin<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Not “V for Victor” Chaltiel<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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