I was at the Majestic Star properties today and the news is not good.
The following were downgraded on the Majestic Star 1:
All Multi-Strike. (That were not previously trashed!) Note: The two
5c/10c/25c Multi-Strike that used to have good 25c games not only were
downgraded but changed to 5c/25c/$1. (Free-ride frequencies are not good
enough on IL deuces to make these 99% games so I have removed them.)
The three Five Play Multi-Strike.
The three 25c 100 Play.
The four $1 single-line machines in the High Limit Slots room.
The four $5 single-line machines in the High Limit slots room.
The only 1/2% downgrades in the above were that they changed the quad 5-K
and SF from 250 to 239 for 9-7DB and 9-6DDB on the High Limit Slots room
games. The best game now on those machines is the 98.95% version of OEJW.
(Not good enough by my standards to keep in the database.)
The next lowest downgrade was from 99.45% to 98.80% for BDW (9-4-4 to
13-4-3) on the 100 plays. Some 2%+ downgrades as well for BDW as the
Multi-Strikes have gone from 9-4-4 to 10-4-3 (SF/4K/FH).
All other downgrades over 1%.
I have removed the above from the database. I also was able to determine
that the progressive feed rate for the thirteen machine bank in the center
of the VP room is 0.8% (1c per $1.25 hand.)
Howard W. Stern
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On Behalf Of Howard W. Stern
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:27 AM
To: vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [vpFREE_Chicago] Majestic Star down grades
Thank You (???)
This saddens me because I often played (and carried strategy charts) for
Multi-Strike 25-12 DBDW.
I will complete the database changes after I take a look tomorrow and
indicate "pending" now.
Howard W. Stern
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Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 6:34 PM
To: vpFREE_chicago
Subject: [vpFREE_Chicago] Majestic Star down grades
I was at the Majestic Star yesterday. The remaining good 100-play and
Multi-Strike machines were turned off. I spoke to the slot manager about the
downgrades. She said that they were going to reduce the pay scale on EVERY
machine that was over 99.5%. She said that there are still many good plays
because many of the machines were close to 100% and we are only cutting the
pay schedules by .5%. I told here that I was not familiar with pay scales
under 99.5% but I was quite sure that the machines that I wanted to play
were reduced by about 1%. She assured me that I was wrong
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