Sam's Town has been stealthily increasing the countdowns on its VP,
too. They finally hit the machine I was fond of in January. (After a
6 month drought I hit two royals on it in Dec. Was that its death
knell?) All VP now has $30 countdowns, $1 CB for 15 points (0.22%).
Countdowns remain 20 on Sam's absolutely horrible $5 machines, as
well as 3 dollars and 3 quarters (forgotten, missed, what?).
The countdowns on Sam's 50-play nickels are still 3000. They were not
fixed when the machines were changed from 1c to 5c. Not that anyone
here would play those anyway.
Gold Strike's $1/$2 NSUD with 1% CB on Tuesdays was removed about two
weeks ago. Eight floor machines were moved to the WSOP area and given
NSUD as a downgrade from 3x DW. Nice downgrade! Anyway, the machines
came back to the floor converted to four-gamers with bad tables, the
best being 9-6 DDB on 50c/$1.
Horseshoe has reinstituted double point Wednesdays.