Isle of Capri Lake Charles

[robar1521]

We drove to the Isle yesterday and found that they have made some
unfavaorable changes to the VP inventory. Two of the six Hundred Play
machines and five of the 3P/5P machines against the far wall are gone,
replaced by new GameMakers w/ single lines games w/ bad paytables and
KENO.

Of the four remaining 3P/5P machines, only one still has the good games
at the quarter level. On the other machines, the good games only show
up at the $ level. AFAIK, the STP and SP machines remain as is.

I did not search both boats looking for the missing machines but a
local player told me he did and they are just gone--poof. He was
complaining b/c there are several locals who tie up the 50/100 Plays
while playing 1-3 lines for 1-5 coins. Now there will be even more
competition for the remaining machines. And who's to say that they are
through w/ their improvements? The Isle already excludes VP from point
multiplier promotions and has made it clear that VP players are not
valued. Apparently they can't distinguish between someone playing one
nickel a hand vs. $12.50 or $25. Once again management just doesn't
have a clue.

Honestly, I don't know what management at the Isle is thinking. They
seem to want to follow the lead of L'Augerge du Lac and offer only full
pay games at the $ and above level. What they don't seem to realize is
that anyone who plays dollars and above would be crazy to play at the
Isle with their dirty shabby rooms, lousy food and lack of other
ammenities. They are a lesser property and should market to a
different clientele. Most of their drawings and giveaways are directed
at the locals so why not set up a whole floor or nickel VP on the
smaller boat and let them pound away one nickel at a time. Then reward
them with drawing tickets, gifts and FP. Meanwhile chase off players
who run $50,000+ per day through machines. Sounds like another
brilliant plan to me. As much as I love playing those multilines, this
is probably our last trip to the Isle. I would love to know how
chasing off all the VP players is affecting their bottom line but I
doubt anyone there is smart enough to figure it out.

[Gene_Frohbieter]

Not too long ago this post would have made me very sad, but I had
already given up on the Isle. Their manager of player development
must have his head so far up it, that he will never see the light of
day. The place is a dump, (think Lady Luck) and the benefits are
very poor. (I won't miss the McCormick's gin--$10 per liter--in a
plastic cup that is supposed to pass for a martini). One thing that
has always bugged me was that I could not come close to the
theoretical long term on the 100-play machines. I have run millions
through those machines over the years, and am down considerably. I am
not inferring that there is anything not Kosher about the machines,
but just that they have beaten me to death. On the other side of the
variance issue, I had much better than expected results on the lone $
AA Poker they had until several years ago. I have started to go to
L'auberge when I want to play a little VP. Even the poker room at The
Isle is poorly run, and when I want to play poker, I go to Coushatta
(sp?). Anyway, I think the profit/loss numbers for that operation
have to be quite dismal. If I am wrong, good for them.

--- In vpFREE_Louisiana@yahoogroups.com, "robar1521" <RoBar1521@...>
wrote:

We drove to the Isle yesterday and found that they have made some
unfavaorable changes to the VP inventory. Two of the six Hundred

Play

machines and five of the 3P/5P machines against the far wall are

gone,

replaced by new GameMakers w/ single lines games w/ bad paytables

and

KENO.

Of the four remaining 3P/5P machines, only one still has the good

games

at the quarter level. On the other machines, the good games only

show

up at the $ level. AFAIK, the STP and SP machines remain as is.

I did not search both boats looking for the missing machines but a
local player told me he did and they are just gone--poof. He was
complaining b/c there are several locals who tie up the 50/100

Plays

while playing 1-3 lines for 1-5 coins. Now there will be even

more

competition for the remaining machines. And who's to say that they

are

through w/ their improvements? The Isle already excludes VP from

point

multiplier promotions and has made it clear that VP players are not
valued. Apparently they can't distinguish between someone playing

one

nickel a hand vs. $12.50 or $25. Once again management just

doesn't

have a clue.

Honestly, I don't know what management at the Isle is thinking.

They

seem to want to follow the lead of L'Augerge du Lac and offer only

full

pay games at the $ and above level. What they don't seem to

realize is

that anyone who plays dollars and above would be crazy to play at

the

Isle with their dirty shabby rooms, lousy food and lack of other
ammenities. They are a lesser property and should market to a
different clientele. Most of their drawings and giveaways are

directed

at the locals so why not set up a whole floor or nickel VP on the
smaller boat and let them pound away one nickel at a time. Then

reward

them with drawing tickets, gifts and FP. Meanwhile chase off

players

who run $50,000+ per day through machines. Sounds like another
brilliant plan to me. As much as I love playing those multilines,

this

···

is probably our last trip to the Isle. I would love to know how
chasing off all the VP players is affecting their bottom line but I
doubt anyone there is smart enough to figure it out.