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(Fwd) Update for Spirit Mountain Casino, Willamina, OR

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As of last night (1/09/08), I could no longer find any 9/6 JOB.
Most are now 8/5, with a few 9/5 at the .25 level and up.

Starting 1/10/08, all points on player's cards (Coyote Club) will
be cut by half. On 1/11/08 all points will be redeemable at the
rate of 350 points = $1. Previously it took 700 points to equal
$1. Points will still accumulate at 1 point per $1. (let's see if
they keep that up 6 months from now) J

Points can be used as free play at any time, redeemed as cash on
certain days of the week, or used for food, hotel rooms, or in
the gift shop any time.

Cash back is really spotty. They average your number of days per
month, with your coin in. They then average your past 3 months. I
have learned the hard way, that $5,000 coin in twice a month,
will get you no more than $5,000 coin in twice a week. This play
usually gets you about $50 a week in cash back, but it is not
consistent month to month.

#2

Spit Mountain still has ONE (count it, ONE) 9/6 JOB. It's near where
it used to be, by the sports bar big screen. It looks just like all
the others, but the paytable is (probably erroneously) 9/6 instead of
9/5 like all the others in the casino.

It can be played 10-coin for quarters, and in a somewhat strange
twist, the RF pays 800-1 even when not playing max coin.

Not that this one machine is worth making a trip out there for, since
every single other game sucks, and the slot club is pathetic.

#3

I couldn't find the 9/6 machine and I checked as many as I could
get to last Friday. There's no sports bar at Spirit Mtn -- no
bars of any kind. There are four or five big screens. Do you have
a more specific location? There were a couple of machines that
were busy every time I tried to check them out, maybe another
vpFree reader?

I noticed something weird at SM, I saw it happen twice so I know
I'm not seeing things. I approached an empty machine that was
apparently cycling through screens showing a royal and then the
pay tables, and I clearly saw 9/6. But when I looked through the
games and denominations none of them were 9/6. WTF? Are they
actually showing a 9/6 pay table on the screen saver when the
machine doesn't offer it?

A couple of weeks ago I hit a royal on a .25 deuces wild, and
last Friday I was playing a DW machine in the (tiny crowded)
non-smoking room when I hit four deuces after about ten minutes
of play. The guy next to me went crazy -- he had been playing all
day and hadn't hit anything. When the machine was done crediting
for the four deuces I hit the deal button and got a wild royal. I
thought the guy next to me was going to come unglued.

I know Spirit Mtn is not the greatest VP venue, but unless I'm
missing something there is nowhere else to play anywhere near
Portland. I haven't been to Chinook Winds in Lincoln City lately
-- is that any better?

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tralfamidorgooglycrackers"
<tralfamidorgooglycrackers@...> wrote:

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Spit Mountain still has ONE (count it, ONE) 9/6 JOB. It's near where
it used to be, by the sports bar big screen. It looks just like all
the others, but the paytable is (probably erroneously) 9/6 instead of
9/5 like all the others in the casino.

It can be played 10-coin for quarters, and in a somewhat strange
twist, the RF pays 800-1 even when not playing max coin.

Not that this one machine is worth making a trip out there for, since
every single other game sucks, and the slot club is pathetic.

#4

there used to be a temporary bar there during football season
(despite the fact that they only serve complementary soft drinks,
not alcohol). The precise location of that one machine is as follows:

Central part of the main casino, about 20 yards SE of the main
cashier. There is a big screen that faces north. (And one on the
other side of the wall.) There are two banks of multigamers with
mostly VP, but some keno, with the VP in 5/10 coin .05, .10, and .25
denoms offered. The two banks are three opposite three and two
opposite two. The lone 9/6 JOB is the machine on the NE corner of
the 3/3 bank. If you are sitting at that machine, the big screen is
on your left, and the cashier is in front of you and to your right.

Good luck getting on it. I spent three hours there the other day
waiting for the keno players to die.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Jorgensen" <gregjor@...> wrote:

I couldn't find the 9/6 machine and I checked as many as I could
get to last Friday. There's no sports bar at Spirit Mtn -- no
bars of any kind. There are four or five big screens. Do you have
a more specific location? There were a couple of machines that
were busy every time I tried to check them out, maybe another
vpFree reader?

I'm sorry, I keep thinking of it as the "sports bar" because

#5

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tralfamidorgooglycrackers"

Thanks for the info -- I found the machine last night. I had never seen it open before,
someone was always playing Keno on it. I played it for an hour or so, up and down. As
(good) luck would have it when I first got there last night for the $100K drawing the place
was packed and the only empty machine I could find was in the non-smoking room. I
played deuces wild and got a dealt royal after about 20 minutes - $2000 playing 10 credit
quarters. That made my small loss on the 9/6 machine easier to take!

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Central part of the main casino, about 20 yards SE of the main
cashier. There is a big screen that faces north. (And one on the
other side of the wall.) There are two banks of multigamers with
mostly VP, but some keno, with the VP in 5/10 coin .05, .10, and .25
denoms offered. The two banks are three opposite three and two
opposite two. The lone 9/6 JOB is the machine on the NE corner of
the 3/3 bank. If you are sitting at that machine, the big screen is
on your left, and the cashier is in front of you and to your right.

Good luck getting on it. I spent three hours there the other day
waiting for the keno players to die.

#6

Thanks for the info -- I found the machine last night. I had never

seen it open before,

someone was always playing Keno on it.

I'm surprised you were able to get on any machine...VP or Slots. I was
there last night and the Friday before, and that place was crowded. I
much prefer weeknights or better yet, very early mornings.

I'll have to look for that machine when I go next Tuesday night.

BTW...I'm not sure if it was you or someone else, in another thread
that mentioned that Spirit Mountain doesn't have a bar. They do indeed
have one. It's right next to Legends Restaurant. Walk in past the
seating area in the front and you'll find the bar.

Kurt

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Greg Jorgensen" <gregjor@...> wrote: