A private email to the vpFREE Administrator says that the
$0.25 BDW progressive ( 98.9% at reset) at Greektown,
now earns cashback and comps. and the old rickety machines
have been replaced by new machines. Also, their comp rate, at
least on the $1 JOB, is now 3 times the cashback or .498%.
Greektown
A private email to the vpFREE Administrator says that the
$0.25 BDW progressive ( 98.9% at reset) at Greektown,
now earns cashback and comps. and the old rickety machines
have been replaced by new machines. Also, their comp rate, at
least on the $1 JOB, is now 3 times the cashback or .498%.
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--- In vpFREE_Detroit@yahoogroups.com, "vpFREE" <vpFREE@C...> wrote:
Last Spring I wrote this short article about Greektown Casino
for Midwest Casino Guide. I didn't have much hope that anything would
be different, But maybe I was wrong. If they keep making changes,
like they have been doing lately that are good for the video poker
player here in Detroit, I might have to take back some of the things
I said.
Congrats Greektown, you're heading in the right direction. I'll
be playing there again. In fact, my wife and I will be there Friday
afternoon playing quarter Pick'Em upstairs next to the Poker Room.
Terry Murphy & VP Pappy
"The Casinos spend an inordinate amount of money trying to make
the ordinary player feel extraordinary."
--VP Pappy
VP'S VIEWS ON NEW GREEKTOWN MANAGEMENT CHANGES
Terry Murphy
April 30th, 2004
'Ding dong the wicked witch is dead'
"Greektown Casino replaces key executive"
DETROIT "Long-time gaming manager Craig Ghelfi is the new chief
operating officer at Detroit's Greektown Casino, Ghelfi, 52, replaces
Sal Semola, who held the executive position at Greektown for two
years."
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Good bye Sal and good riddance!
He certainly wasn't a friend of video poker players or Detroit
gamblers in general. In that unheard of move of barring certain vp
winners, he could have started a trend by casinos to kick out any
gambler who they thought could "possibly" win some money from them.
He sent the message that Greektown Casino only wants gambling idiots
playing there and would tolerate no winners.
"The casinos think that anyone who enters their doors to gamble
should lose. And if they don't, in spite of all the fake smiles and
cordiality, they would bar knowledgeable gamblers in a Detroit second
if it wasn't for all the bad publicity they'd receive."
--VP Pappy
Maybe this new guy will bring back some of the old vp games that old
Sal had removed. (like 9/6 Jack's or Better and full pay Pick'Em) And
maybe this new guy will start advertising that Greektown Casino wants
all the vp players to come back. And maybe they would like to be
known as one of the best places to play video poker in the Midwest
once again. And maybe this new guy will even ask old VP Pappy to set
up a new video poker room ( I can see it now: "VP Pappy's Pick'Em
Poker Parlor") that has some fair games. And maybe they will once
again honor their pact with the Detroit voters who gave them their
mandate to erect a place to gamble with fair games and not rip-off
ones. Yea, right!
There's about as much chance of that happening as there is of Carrot
Top being elected president.
"I can't believe that the casinos have anything but contempt for
their patrons."
--VP Pappy
In this case, any change that gets rid of old Sal is a start in the
right direction. We'll see what's next in the continuing saga of, "AS
THE CASINO TURNS"
Good Luck--Terry Murphy & VP Pappy