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Hollywood Lawrenceburg downgrades DDB

#1

This past week the powers to be at Hollywood had the pay tables for DDB changed from 10-6 to 9-5 on the majority of their $1/$2 machines. I have spoken to both my host and her boss about the change. Unfortunately, neither one understood what I was talking about. I have also written e mail to management telling them that I refuse to play a V/P game with no opportunity to win. Hopefully, other players will voice their dissatisfaction as well and refuse to play those machines. I doubt if it will do any good but it is worth a try.

The Gambler

#2

I was playing 10 play JoB at Casino Rama the other day. I held 3 parts of a Royal and connected on two of them . Posted the picture on the vpfree jackpot picture page below.

http://tinyurl.com/2b4cued

Regards

A.P.

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#3

I have not been there in the last week to see this first hand, but your report is consistent with what a friend of mine told me earlier. I also heard the 9/6 Jacks are gone and in particular the 9/6 on the progressive that often went positive (managed to hit that north of $6000 twice).

I guess my last duty as casino monitor will be to stop by for myself, verify that the entire data base is now obsolete and close up shop. No reason to visit Hollywood anymore other than to drain the comp balance.

SB

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

This past week the powers to be at Hollywood had the pay tables for DDB changed from 10-6 to 9-5 on the majority of their $1/$2 machines. I have spoken to both my host and her boss about the change. Unfortunately, neither one understood what I was talking about. I have also written e mail to management telling them that I refuse to play a V/P game with no opportunity to win. Hopefully, other players will voice their dissatisfaction as well and refuse to play those machines. I doubt if it will do any good but it is worth a try.

The Gambler

#4

Albert, Good work. That really has to have some long odds?

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Albert Pearson <ehpee@...> wrote:

I was playing 10 play JoB at Casino Rama the other day. I held 3 parts of a Royal and connected on two of them .

#5

I finally visited Hollywood last night after hearing of these downgrades. While the progressive $1 9/6 JoB is totally gone, a good number of the $1/$2 machine still have 10/6/40 DDB and 9/6 JoB. I did not bother to count them all so I can't say for certain that the majority have been downgraded, but it is still quite easy to find a good game. Often a 10/6/40 DDB pay table will be adjacent to a 9/5 DDB pay table. Single line $5 NSUD and 9/6 JoB remain intact in the HL room.

SB

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "spartanbuckeye21" <kobj21@...> wrote:

I have not been there in the last week to see this first hand, but your report is consistent with what a friend of mine told me earlier. I also heard the 9/6 Jacks are gone and in particular the 9/6 on the progressive that often went positive (managed to hit that north of $6000 twice).

I guess my last duty as casino monitor will be to stop by for myself, verify that the entire data base is now obsolete and close up shop. No reason to visit Hollywood anymore other than to drain the comp balance.

SB

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "janspornhauer@" <janspornhauer@> wrote:
>
> This past week the powers to be at Hollywood had the pay tables for DDB changed from 10-6 to 9-5 on the majority of their $1/$2 machines. I have spoken to both my host and her boss about the change. Unfortunately, neither one understood what I was talking about. I have also written e mail to management telling them that I refuse to play a V/P game with no opportunity to win. Hopefully, other players will voice their dissatisfaction as well and refuse to play those machines. I doubt if it will do any good but it is worth a try.
>
> The Gambler
>

#6

The machines that have been downgraded are located up by the table games. So
far it amounts to 10 machines. There are many machines in the back still
with 10-6 DDB and 9-6 JOB at the $1 level. My concern is whether this is
just a start or test to see if there are enough players out there who will
play the lower pay tables.

Thanks for following up spartanbuckeye! Go bucks!

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spartanbuckeye21
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 6:42 AM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Hollywood Lawrenceburg downgrades DDB

I finally visited Hollywood last night after hearing of these downgrades.
While the progressive $1 9/6 JoB is totally gone, a good number of the $1/$2
machine still have 10/6/40 DDB and 9/6 JoB. I did not bother to count them
all so I can't say for certain that the majority have been downgraded, but
it is still quite easy to find a good game. Often a 10/6/40 DDB pay table
will be adjacent to a 9/5 DDB pay table. Single line $5 NSUD and 9/6 JoB
remain intact in the HL room.

SB

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vpFREE%40yahoogroups.com> ,
"spartanbuckeye21" <kobj21@...> wrote:

I have not been there in the last week to see this first hand, but your

report is consistent with what a friend of mine told me earlier. I also
heard the 9/6 Jacks are gone and in particular the 9/6 on the progressive
that often went positive (managed to hit that north of $6000 twice).

I guess my last duty as casino monitor will be to stop by for myself,

verify that the entire data base is now obsolete and close up shop. No
reason to visit Hollywood anymore other than to drain the comp balance.

SB

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com <mailto:vpFREE%40yahoogroups.com> ,

"janspornhauer@" <janspornhauer@> wrote:

>
> This past week the powers to be at Hollywood had the pay tables for DDB

changed from 10-6 to 9-5 on the majority of their $1/$2 machines. I have
spoken to both my host and her boss about the change. Unfortunately, neither
one understood what I was talking about. I have also written e mail to
management telling them that I refuse to play a V/P game with no opportunity
to win. Hopefully, other players will voice their dissatisfaction as well
and refuse to play those machines. I doubt if it will do any good but it is
worth a try.

>
> The Gambler
>

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#7

The two 3/5/10 play machines in the HL area that I had previously
deleted from the data base after a major downgrade a few months ago
have been restored. Both machines come in $5, $10 or $25 denominations.
For triple play you can get the following in all denoms: Illinois
Deuces, 9/6 JoB, 9/7 TDB, 9/6 BP Dlx, 9/5 SDB and 10/6/40 DDB. If you
go to 5 or 10 play you can get the following in all denoms: 9/6 JoB, 9/6
BP Dlx and 10/6/40 DDB.

I did not bother to see if some of the single line DDB that had been
downgraded (mostly near the table games by the entrance) had been
restored as there always was plenty of 10/6/40 to be found among the bad
machines throughout the casino. Also would be interested to see if the
$1 progressive bank was upgraded to 9/6 Jacks again. I miss that game.
I'll make sure to check next visit.

SB