Just ended three day visit and can confirm that VP has been degraded
as badly as others have reported. Especially disappointed to see all
dollar 10/7 DB is history. Best available game seems to be
progressive 10 coin JOB which resets to $9400 royal and is frequently
over $10,000. All the machines are TITO (much more convenient than
the old coin clunkers), great graphics, and quite speedy. So you can
lose your dough more comfortably and a lot faster. And if glaring
purple neon is your thing, the PEP is your VP heaven.
Seems to me that there could have been a better way for management to
counter the growing competition from the California casinos than to
lower all VP paytables, but I'm no Harvard MBA so what do I know?
On the positive side, they still have excellent wooden matches in the
VIP room and the coffee and pastries in there are pretty good as
well. Maybe that evens things out.
I never thought I'd say this, but a three hour drive to the Borgata
is looking a lot smarter than a six hour flight to anywhere in
Nevada. As soon as sanity starts prevailing in the airlines so that
$200 RT's are no longer available, my frequent flyer days are over.
Back to the PEP, I did (unfortunately, as it turned out) find a few
fiveplay multistrikes which had full pay SDB at nickles, dimes and
quarters. Also had FP JOB. I had my laptop with Winpoker and Strategy
Master and spent a couple of hours developing and copying strategy
cards for SDB. The machines are conveniently right in front of the
cashier's cage so I didn't have to walk far each time I needed a new
marker. A better strategy would have been to stick with the
progressive JOB.
BTW, I strolled over to the Atlantis which still has most of their
(now) much better VP. However (administrator note), if you were
planning a trip to Reno for the sole purpose of playing 10 cent 10/7
spinpoker in the seafood bridge, stay home. She's a goner.