I went to the new Cannery today. Very crowded. The slot club
was overwhelmed Seems like they should know better than to
set it up with what looked like only 2 people being served at a
time. Hopefully things will get better later, but sheesh, they
could set up a temporary overflow line. Those ploppies standing
in line are NOT feeding a keno machine. Such foolishness most
certainly costs them more than they realize.
I was pleasantly surprised at the overall interior. Hard to believe
it is the old Nevada Palace. I think the high ceiling makes all
the difference in the world. Its no Taj Mahal. In fact, it has a
warehouse kind of feel. But for a warehouse, its not half bad.
My only complaint with the layout was that it was bit too simple
and there were way too many machines that were seemingly identical
to each other. I like cities that have streets laid out in grids,
but in a casino that idea can be overdone.
Almost every VP machine was a new Game King with multi-deno,
multi-game. Even the games themselves were almost the
same on each of these.
VP...
I did not see the FPDW bank, but I am glad it is there.
I don't play very much quarter single lines anymore, but I still
cash out my free play on them. I was disappointed to see that
all the Super Times Pay, Multistrike, etc. games were saddled with
lousy paytables. I was happy to see multiline JOB, which is not
found at the Cannery (North?). I saw VERY few progressives.
The one I remember seeing had such a brutal base paytable that it will
probably never get playable. If I were running a casino, many
of my machines would be progressives and many of them would feature
one game. Some would have awful base paytables. After all, I would
never want to deny a sheep his right to be fleeced, but I'd also
put some out that would actually get positive once in awhile.
I don't know if the full pay games get slashed points, though I
suspect that will come soon enough if it hasn't already.
Food...
I did not eat.
Parking...
Seemed pretty full, but I found a spot so I did not really notice
if it was a sever problem.
Pit...
Sorry, I gave up BJ long time ago unless I have a match play.
Given the current situation in Vegas, I doubt there is anything
special going on there.
OVERALL RATING.... B+
About what I expected with a couple of mildly pleasant surprises
in the VP, but nothing mouth-watering and what I perceive to be a
couple clear errors of omission.
I do have a few questions...
1. Although their literature says the points can be used at either
Cannery, it seems like maybe they are two distinct slot clubs.
My old Cannery card did not work in any machine, but my new one
(I got it online hoping to get a low number, but I was 12000 and
change) registered just fine.
Are the two slot clubs more or less independent?
If I play both places, will each send me a unique mailer, or will
my play be combined for both and still result in one mailer?
In other words, are they like the Stations or like the Coasts
when it comes to mailers?
Does anybody know anything about their mailer levels? I'm pretty
sure the new slot club at the old Cannery now has 125,000 pts for
high flyer. Will it be the same there?
I also noticed that their slot club is only offering 3x points
instead of 5x points. Since they have multiline JOB, I am fine
with that. I really don't much like Bonus Poker and JOB is
more than 0.33% better than Bonus Poker, so the play is actually
a bit better also.
Quad Zilla
