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Rio VP & Beventertainers at Rio

#1

The best machine now at Rio is $5 9/6 JB in the high roller area; I think
there are 2 or 3 of them. For $1 players 8/5 Bonus poker is the best, the next
best is 8/6 JB in Triple Play machines. For quarter players the best is Sneaky
Queens 8/5 Bonus poker and regular 8/5 Bonus Poker in Gamemakers. In triple
play there is 8/6 JB and maybe 8/5 Bonus Poker in quarters.

The "Beventertainers" have now started at the Rio. This consists of drink
servers stopping their drink service about 2 times an hour to stand on stages
and dance. The dancers only dance for 5 minutes at the most. Though somewhat
entertaining, everything stops dead when they dance, which can only cost the
Rio money in the long run. Also they are taking up valuable gaming space for
these stages. The new waitresses/waiters include men and women - the women are
more skimpily dressed than the old waitresses, but not as good looking, the
men are fully clothed.

In my opinion this is a stupid idea and won't bring in more people to the
Rio, and will be annoying to serious players who now will not get drinks while
dancers dance. It will only cost the Rio money in the long run.

If the Rio wants to bring in more players, they should try incentives such as
2X point days and bring in some "looser" machines including at least a
handful of decent video poker for quarter and $1 players such as 9/6 JB, 10/7 DB,
and full pay DW.

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#2

For quarter players the best is Sneaky
Queens 8/5 Bonus poker and regular 8/5 Bonus Poker in Gamemakers.

In triple

play there is 8/6 JB and maybe 8/5 Bonus Poker in quarters.

Did they pull the (4) .25 16/11 DD from the Masq village?

hockeystl

#3

Misscraps wrote: “The "Beventertainers" have now started at the Rio. This
consists of drink
servers stopping their drink service about 2 times an hour to stand on
stages
and dance. The dancers only dance for 5 minutes at the most. Though
somewhat
entertaining, everything stops dead when they dance, which can only cost the
Rio money in the long run. Also they are taking up valuable gaming space
for
these stages.”

Sounds as if the MBA’s have taken hold and that the new book by Harrah’s
chairman Phil Sartre (???) is not just outright puffery, but also fakery.

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#4

No, they are still there. My husband hit the deuces on them just the other
day. By the way, I did not care for the beventertainers either. I did get
my name called for the own it all monopoly drawing Mon. evening but all I
got was 2 free show tickets.

Sylvia

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----- Original Message -----
From: "hockeystl" <vegasstl@charter.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:24 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Rio VP & Beventertainers at Rio

> For quarter players the best is Sneaky
> Queens 8/5 Bonus poker and regular 8/5 Bonus Poker in Gamemakers.
In triple
> play there is 8/6 JB and maybe 8/5 Bonus Poker in quarters.

Did they pull the (4) .25 16/11 DD from the Masq village?

hockeystl

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#5

"For quarter players the best is Sneaky
Queens 8/5 Bonus poker and regular 8/5 Bonus Poker in Gamemakers. In
triple
play there is 8/6 JB and maybe 8/5 Bonus Poker in quarters"

In triple play, they have zero 8/5 bonus. These were removed over a
year ago. They do have a bank of .25 single line 8/5 Bonus
progressive that is often near positive. It is located in the middle
of Masq Village. This is the best they have for quarter players.

#6

If that's true, they must have sped up the meter in the last few months. It
used to move at one tenth of one percent. I quit going in to check it
because it almost never was near positive. I'll have to check it out along
with the beavertainers!

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-----Original Message-----
From: roblobue [mailto:roblo…@…com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 7:11 AM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Rio VP & Beventertainers at Rio

They do have a bank of .25 single line 8/5 Bonus
progressive that is often near positive. It is located in the middle
of Masq Village. This is the best they have for quarter players.

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#7

The best machine For quarter players the best is Sneaky
  Queens 8/5 Bonus poker and regular 8/5 Bonus Poker in Gamemakers. In triple
  play there is 8/6 JB and maybe 8/5 Bonus Poker in quarters.

  >> What about the quarter Rio Deuces ( 16/11 Double deuces ) . Did they get rid of these ?

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