2c. Re: Majestic Star FYI
Posted by: "Howard W. Stern" howard.w.stern@earthlink.net howardwstern
Date: Tue Aug 4, 2009 8:58 am ((PDT))
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Harrah's Horseshoe is the same 0.1% on VP. Diamond Card at Harrah's is $110K per
year so similiar to the $50K/six months at the Majestic Star.
This is, of course, true, but for me, I find it easier to get $110K over 12 months than to always divide it up nearly equally into two six month periods. If I do $50K OR $100K at Majestic between Jan. and June, I'm superstar for the second half of the year, but regardless of the first half, if I don't do at least anothr $50K in that second half, I get downgraded for the first half of the following year. Not to mention that their card readers never tell you how you're doing, and I've almost always had to struggle to get a host to tell me how many points I've already earned "to-date". Maybe some of this will be changed with their "new program".
The Majestic Star is the only Chicago Area property with better than 99.1% VP
under the $1 level. Horseshoe removed some playable single-line $1 since the
latest addition to 1c slots. I suspect that VP conditions will continue to go
downhill in the Chicago Area.
You're right about $0.25 play; I play $1 almost exclusively, where Horseshoe has plenty to offer. In fact, they now have two small banks of $1 single-line with progressive, although I've never seen it over $4400 yet; meter moves very slowly, and no overhead indication, so you need to walk around to find them, more or less in the half of the VP area closest to the poker room. Each bank has a different progressive too, about 4-5 machines in each one. And Horseshoe has $1 multi-play STP (one or two machines in high limit slot area), a little steep for my bankroll, but occasionally I'll share the risk with a friend if we're there together (actually, just taking half of 3- or 5-play $1 STP is still a little more roller-coaster than my bankroll likes, unless of course we get lucky).
In the end, though, Horseshoe is my choice because I spend over 70-80% of my time at live poker, and their poker room is the best in the area right now. Also, their restaurant choices are far superior to Majestic, and the buffets at the two are worlds apart in quality, only a little apart in price. Finally, the VIP lounges at the two are again, in Harrah's favor almost all the time.
No place is as good as the "old days", and hardly anyplace is even as good as they were a couple years ago; fortunatley there's a LITTLE decent VP in NW Indiana still, not to mention Horseshoe Southern Indiana also being a good place for VP and live poker too.
--BG
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