Hey Norma-
Great subject line! I'll bet everyone checked your post first.
Welcome back to the VP world. I'm no long-timer, maybe 6 yrs "into"
it, but you can tell a lot has changed. IF there is $1 FPDW anywhere,
it's a guarded secret. Despite the democracy of vpFree, seems like
most $1 and up games over 100% EV are rare and are not often shared.
If it's a single machine, it's likely a casino mistake and the risk of
'outing' it to the casino management makes it less likely to be
publicized here.
That being said, in LV there are 6 casinos in the cross-directory with
$1 Loose DW which is >100%. Also many places listed with 10/7 DB and
10/6 DDB at $1 denom, some with prog RFs, if you are flexible with
your game choice.
And El Cortez and Western have $1 KBJW which is well over 100%.
As the pool of positive games shrinks, you MIGHT get the impression
that the fish here are getting nastier. Could be, but there are plenty
of polite folks around, maybe they just don't post as often.
I play only in Reno, and when the Silver Legacy added 50c & $1 FPDW a
few years back on 8-12 machines, the "play" lasted for 4 months and
machines were rarely full. Either the pros got their fill or they
don't like to travel. Alas, the main full-pay that's left in Reno is
25c extra full-pay KBJW (20/7/4700) on about 6 machines at Silver
Legacy. 10/7 DB is around many places, 10/6 DDB has become rare, and
FPDW is gone, where I go anyhow.
For deuces players, the trend has been to embrace NSUD and play where
cashback or comps take the play up to positiveland. Or be happy
playing 25c FPDW (in LV) and staying beneath the W-2G IRS radar 
Hope you can find the time to tell some tales of the good old days,
there's always room for nostalgia posts. Nostalgia just ain't what it
used to be.
Cheers,
~MARK
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Norma Posy" <normagirl9@...> wrote:
Years ago I visited the Golden Nugget in Laughlin a lot, because they
had a lot of 25 cent FPDW machines. That was my favorite game.
I haven't been in a casino for quite a while now. Life has been
busy. And anyway, the large number of Indian casinos infesting San
Diego county do not have any "full pay" video poker machines. And I
am suspicious of the RNG bias of machines outside of Nevada anyway.
I recently was in Las Vegas at a convention. I checked at
the "survey" listings here first, and while in L.V. I took a quick
tour through the Gold Coast before I left. Gold Coast is listed here
as having FPDW, but I didn't see any there. I didn't wander through
the entire place, and likely simply missed where they were.
Does anyone know of one dollar FPDW around town in Las Vegas? Or
Laughlin for that matter? I'd also be interested to learn if the 25
cent FPDW machines are still at the Golden Nugget in Laughlin. I
haven't been there in a long time.
About twenty years ago there were three one dollar FPDW machines at
Binion's Horseshoe on Fremont St. They were even better than that,
paying 1190-to-5 for four-deuces! (Just under the tax line). I
seriously doubt they are still there after all this time.