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Hollywood @ Kansas Speedway

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We just got back from an excursion to the Southwest including a month at Sam's Town in Las Vegas so thought we would check out the new casino at the Kansas Speedway. A mailer waiting for us from Argosy, Kansas City, left no doubt who was running the Hollywood. Enclosed were two Hollywood slot cards which will be good in both casinos, accrued points available in either.

General impression: The facility is very nice, well decorated, high ceilings, good air quality, and much larger than I was expecting. However, unlike its sister property in Tunica, we saw almost no movie memorabilia. The "Hollywood" theme was mostly through large photographs and video screens. No original movie posters.

Buffet: First place we headed since we are casino buffet addicts. Again well decorated, nice facility with a combination of tables and booths. Some tables overlooks the race track (bet those are hard to get on NASCAR weekends). We were somewhat disappointed in two areas. First, in spite of the mailer we got, we could NOT use Argosy points to pay for food. That feature, the cashier explained, was not yet available and wouldn't be so for another month or two. Since this was our first visit we had to cough up $15 each for the meal. Second, the food wasn't that great. There were some dishes that were good and some were just plain lousy. This ain't the Carnival Buffet at Rio still we did manage to find enough edible food to leave with full tummies. There are other eateries but we have no information on them.

Video Poker: At first we couldn't find any and was wondering if they existed. But after asking an employee we found them all clustered in one area. Nothing in the High Limit area. Most machines were multi-denomination, multi-play and included keno as well as VP. Denominations ran from 5 cents to 2 dollars, higher pay tables at the one and two dollar levels. And now the bad news, we found no full pay machines. The best that I saw were 1 and 2 dollar 9/7 Double Bonus. Below the dollar level it was 9/6. Next best I guess would be the 9/5 JoB, again only at the 1 and 2 dollar level. Our preferred game, Bonus, was the lousy 8/5 with no bonus quads. We saw no progressive machines but our limited visit was not an exhaustive search.

Guess we will have to bone up on Double Bonus if we continue to play there.

Rick & Lucky Lucy

#2

A month at Sam's Town ? That tickles my curiosity. Was it all comped ? If so based upon what kind of play ? Sincer LV is out of pool season ..what did you guys do with 30 days there ? Again I find this so interesting ( What can I tell you, I'm weird at times):slight_smile:

  Larry F.

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We just got back from an excursion to the Southwest including a month at Sam's Town in Las Vegas

#3

Between promotions (free rooms for tournaments, etc.) and comps we paid for one week. Oh yes, we were in the RV park in our motorhome but the offers were for hotel rooms as well. For 8 days (two 4-day periods) we enjoyed food via gold card. The rest of the time food was by slot points -- purchased zero meals. We did have some left over Total Rewards points so had a few meals at CE properties.

We play mostly dollar single line VP but I hit the 3-play quarter progressives once in a while (hit one royal there for $1500). Lucky Lucy hit a 50 cent progressive for $2600. That was about it. Our bankroll took a pretty good hit this time. LL was in a loosing streak from hell.

We were there last winter for 6 weeks, same song. When we left in March we had Emerald status with green cards. Ten months later were back and had to start all over with red cards. Seems to me the tier status should last at least a year. We did hit Emerald status again, but just before we left.

What did we do for a month? Why play video poker of course. :wink:

We did catch the Sam's Town shuttle bus to the strip several times and likewise to downtown. Always things to do and see in Las Vegas.

Rick

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "baronthegreat" <luckylucy39@> wrote:
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> We just got back from an excursion to the Southwest including a month at Sam's Town in Las Vegas

  A month at Sam's Town ? That tickles my curiosity. Was it all comped ? If so based upon what kind of play ? Sincer LV is out of pool season ..what did you guys do with 30 days there ? Again I find this so interesting ( What can I tell you, I'm weird at times):slight_smile:

  Larry F.

#4

I thought Emerald tier was good for a year for out of state players?
Also, what route did you take to get to Kansas with the motor home, 40?
Thanks

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We were there last winter for 6 weeks, same song. When we left in March we had Emerald status with green cards. Ten months later were back and had to start all over with red cards. Seems to me the tier status should last at least a year. We did hit Emerald status again, but just before we left.

#5

The Emerald cards we got last year were only good for about 9 months, the ones we got this year I think is good for a year -- I don't have one available right now. We have no Boyd casinos in our area so the account gets no play between visits. Sam's Town was one of the original casinos in Kansas City when Missouri legalized gambling but, alas, they only lasted a couple years.

We left LV for Tucson (son and DIL live there) then to Kansas from Tucson. I-10 to Las Cruces, US 70 to Alamogordo, US 54 to central Kansas, I-135 & I-70 to KC area. The last night on the road we stopped at Greensburg, Kansas, first time since the tornado wiped it out. They are bouncing back, town looks great, and they provide electrical hook-ups in their city park.

Rick

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

I thought Emerald tier was good for a year for out of state players?
Also, what route did you take to get to Kansas with the motor home, 40?
Thanks

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#6

Thanks for all the info.

#7

Thanks. Once again very interesting to this player.

  Larry F.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "baronthegreat" <luckylucy39@...> wrote:

Between promotions (free rooms for tournaments, etc.) and comps we paid for one week. Oh yes, we were in the RV park in our motorhome but the offers were for hotel rooms as well. For 8 days (two 4-day periods) we enjoyed food via gold card....