In a message dated 4/14/2006 7:21:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
omnibibulous1@comcast.net writes:
On a return trip from 8 days in Key West yesterday I stopped in to the
Seminole Hardrock. We had a couple of hours to kill before our return
flight out of nearby Ft. Lauderdale airport. Nice pool. A spacious well
designed casino. Entertainment and shopping areas. A very nice facility,
but all machines I saw were unabashedly bingo based. With decent vp and
comp opportunities, I would easily make a few days available for a visit
during the frigid Chicago winter, but I guess this is what FLA allows. They
had a large poker room/area. The highest bet limit listed on the board was
$2. This has to get pretty tedious for the player who knows what he/she is
doing. They were running tournaments so maybe there are opportunities
there.
The Hollywood property is much larger than it's Tampa counterpart, but the
'gambling' is the same.
Lousy Class 2 crapola. The slots have a payback of 60%, are all based on
bingo. & if you're not LUCKY you stand a snowball's chance in hell of coming out
ahead. May as well take your money, go out to their parking lot & make a
bonfire with it. The VP is also bingo based. If you're dealt a paying hand & discard
it you will get a similar or better paying hand on the redraw. Cash back is
non existent, comps are near impossible to obtain from their 'hosts'. You have
to pay for drinks, nothing is free except the smoke filled polluted air.
Did I miss anything?
CF
PS.....You're much better off going to The Sterling in Cocoa Beach (Cape
Canaveral). It's a beautiful ship with 6 floors of gambling including $1 FPDW &
JW. A free buffet is open during the entire 'voyage,' nothing great, but edible.
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