In a message dated 8/23/06 7:58:57 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
vpfae6128305@Cox.net writes:
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Please read Bob's column. I never knew he hung out so much in Laughlin.
While Bob was lamenting the loss of the games in the High Limit lounge over
the last twenty months, I have been watching what has vanished from the floor.
There have been alot of hits to the low roller too, both at Harrahs and the
River Palms.
My perspective is a low roller looking for comped nights and food with a
chance in the low level promos/drawings in Laughlin. Bob has a different agenda.
I eyeballed the Harrahs-L 50-plays when they were nickels only denomination.
I caught the Harrahs hospitaliy bug February 2004 when I did my first weekend
staying there. I scouted the casino for years but did not play again until
December 2003, after they found me in the system after four years. I stumbled
upon a table games promo for a BJ tourney, a suited BJ got you into the
drawing drum. They started with five names a day and upped it to 10. A couple of
$5 suited BJ gave you a good chance to earn the weekend package. I scored.
Anyway, my action got some low level mail. I got July 5-6th comped in July
2004 at H-L. I never saw the "Rockets on the River" fireworks so I went over
early July 4th and played the 50-plays. There were three of them then putting
out at $10/point. I did enough for Platinum in a Day, hit a couple of royals
and lost $200 bucks.
Saw the fireworks, that is a unique recommended show, then dabbled up and
down the river all night. I didn't have a room that night. I took a nap in a
lounger at the H-L adult pool after sunrise. Just put the Laughlin Entertainer
oversized magazine on my lap and wasn't bothered.
Anyway the three fifty-plays caught a disease by November 2004. As Bob
describes they started acting like their slot machines at $5/point for Base points.
My August action of $13.5k did earn me a bounce, so I must have crossed the
4500 RC southern Nevada bounce threshold that month.
The first week of January 2005 meant shooting for Diamond in a Day on the
three nickel 50-plays. I did it fairly painlessly by 2pm with two royals and a
$50 loss. $9k in action got me Diamond.
I and other Laughlin regulars tried to steer the folks to these machines to
do Diamond in a Day without being too obvious.
Bob's similiar quote-
"I decided not to write about this until after our yearly play was done so as
not to generate more competition for the machines than we want."
What is so surprising is Harrahs added another 50-play with the same game mix
right next to the one in the non-smoking casino. The dime play was turned on
by then, but the new machine still acted like a slot.
Anyway I helped a couple folks with their action to get Diamond. They would
help me in other river joints.
My Diamond in a Day action got me two season's worth of mail for H-L. I got
tourney and weekend outdoor concert offers. I doubt if I would have gone for
DinaD at $18k action.
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The 50-plays in Laughlin did act normally at $10/point, then for 18 months
acted like slots. Did Harrahs have a clue and did this on purpose?
Bob walks through the value of the overall H-L play including the crummy 5pm
Laughlin daily drawing. These are tied to the brand-wide promos. There is
always an in-house HET component and a national one for the Big Bang Finale.
On Sept 10th, the "3 Million on Us" closed circuit drawing happens. Each HET
joint looks to have 10 players in the mix. Do you give this BBF much value?
My value comes from the comped room nights.
So Bob have you walked Harrahs-L over to the River Palms to get your
bounceback? It is only 12 minutes front door to front door. Those 86 stair steps
shouldn't stop you, being on the health kick.
BS
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