So I was at the Venetian this week while there was a huge jewelers conference. The day the conference ended, half of the slot machines in the casino were scheduled for shutdown at 10PM. My suspicion was the casino had tightened up the slots during the conference and then returned them to a normal payout after it had ended. Am I just being a suspicious or is this something the casinos will do at certain times when they know more visitors will be playing?
Interesting observation at the Venetian this week
Its not that easy to change PAR values on slot machines To do a thousand slot machines would take about a few weeks. Also, keep in mind that they are the largest conference hotel in Vegas, so they go through those crowds almost every week.
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From: "laserjobs@att.net" <att@flemingink.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:20:38
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Subject: [vpFREE] Interesting observation at the Venetian this week
So I was at the Venetian this week while there was a huge jewelers conference. The day the conference ended, half of the slot machines in the casino were scheduled for shutdown at 10PM. My suspicion was the casino had tightened up the slots during the conference and then returned them to a normal payout after it had ended. Am I just being a suspicious or is this something the casinos will do at certain times when they know more visitors will be playing?
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Probably a system upgrade. There is no way to readjust half a floor in
less than a week. If the floor was going non-ticketing for 12 hours
they would reduce their game count to minimize labor on low amount
hand pays by placing the games out of service for a those hours.
Just a possibility but adjusting a floor is an impossibility for a
single event.
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On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:20 PM, "laserjobs@att.net" <att@flemingink.com> wrote:
So I was at the Venetian this week while there was a huge jewelers
conference. The day the conference ended, half of the slot machines
in the casino were scheduled for shutdown at 10PM. My suspicion was
the casino had tightened up the slots during the conference and then
returned them to a normal payout after it had ended. Am I just being
a suspicious or is this something the casinos will do at certain
times when they know more visitors will be playing?
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They run Bally ACSC system there. I assume they do a back-up monthly and you are correct. When they system goes down the handpays go up.
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From: Di <ddale321@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:11:30
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com<vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Interesting observation at the Venetian this week
Probably a system upgrade. There is no way to readjust half a floor in
less than a week. If the floor was going non-ticketing for 12 hours
they would reduce their game count to minimize labor on low amount
hand pays by placing the games out of service for a those hours.
Just a possibility but adjusting a floor is an impossibility for a
single event.
On Jun 9, 2010, at 10:20 PM, "laserjobs@att.net" <att@flemingink.com> wrote:
So I was at the Venetian this week while there was a huge jewelers
conference. The day the conference ended, half of the slot machines
in the casino were scheduled for shutdown at 10PM. My suspicion was
the casino had tightened up the slots during the conference and then
returned them to a normal payout after it had ended. Am I just being
a suspicious or is this something the casinos will do at certain
times when they know more visitors will be playing?
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Were these machines anywhere near the poker room? Venetian Deep Stack Poker tournament is currently running, and, based on the reports I've heard, it is drawing better than expected.
During their tournaments, it isn't uncommon for Venetian to make room for additional poker tables by removing/moving slot machines.
Plus, if they were willing to adjust the slots for one "event", I'd suspect they'd tighten the slots during the poker tournment. After all, the poker players spouses/girlfriends/boyfriends need something to do while their significant other is playing cards.
Or maybe, they decided to be more liberal with giving out points for VP play AND they're going to put in a bunch of 9/6 Job and NSUD machines. YEAH RIGHT!
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "laserjobs@..." <att@...> wrote:
So I was at the Venetian this week while there was a huge jewelers conference. The day the conference ended, half of the slot machines in the casino were scheduled for shutdown at 10PM. My suspicion was the casino had tightened up the slots during the conference and then returned them to a normal payout after it had ended. Am I just being a suspicious or is this something the casinos will do at certain times when they know more visitors will be playing?
Well, they certainly adjusted VP paytables before and after big players club events for a time, as was reported here by numerous people. Apparently they've decided more recently that it's not worth the effort and have permanently downgraded their entire inventory.
I agree though they're probably not making wholesale changes to slot payouts just because of a big trade show or the deepstack tournaments.
Mike P.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, scottandkellyh@... wrote:
Its not that easy to change PAR values on slot machines To do a >thousand slot machines would take about a few weeks. Also, keep in >mind that they are the largest conference hotel in Vegas, so they go >through those crowds almost every week.