From AP to Recreational over night
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2021 5:02 am
One never knows when things are going to change for the worst but all good things come to an end sooner or later. When you have a casino giving to much away in comp packages and very good promotions, players will take advantage in any way they can.
Things started to happen about a month ago. We heard slot players getting slapped with a lifetime ban. I was told by my host the slot players would look for machines with must hit pots on them. Say it must hit by 5k. Smart players would wait till it was near that number then pump the machine till it hit. Make a profit plus the free play it will bring from players club in months to come. They then would not play until they found another machine with high pots. Another player found a flaw in a machine called Ocean Magic. He would play min. bet till he seen something come up in the first reel, then max bet and was cleaning out the machine and got the ban.
A few weeks ago they started on VP players that was camping out on one bank of machines. When I say camping out I mean 6 to 10 hours at a time. Some longer and always there hogging up the machines during drawings. Other players wanting to play the machine bitching up a storm. Many on the bank playing DDB with a 99.96% pay back. The next thing I hear is 8 players some I knew all got lifetime ban.
So Friday I hit the casino for play and drawings. Only to see these small stickers near the card slot. These stickers are on every poker machine in the building. I run into another player I know who just got there and played a small amount of multi hand poker. I pointed out the sticker to him and he said he did not see that. He said as he was playing he was not getting many points. As you can guess it was 1 point per $1 on VP was changed to 1 point per $10 played. That ends any and all advantage on VP. For me to keep my current comp package I have I would have to put 10 times the play on I currently do.
So now I have this problem of trying to play what free play I might have coming to me on slots. I have no clue don't play slots so am in the dark here. Unless they are also taking away the 3 month average from us I should have free play for several months to come.
It was a hell of a run for about 4 years I did very well. Here in Mid Michigan I have to drive long distance from 45 min drive one way to 1 1/2 to 2 hours to get to a casino. So AP looks to be out unless a year or two out things change where I currently play. It's back to Recreational play for now.
Things started to happen about a month ago. We heard slot players getting slapped with a lifetime ban. I was told by my host the slot players would look for machines with must hit pots on them. Say it must hit by 5k. Smart players would wait till it was near that number then pump the machine till it hit. Make a profit plus the free play it will bring from players club in months to come. They then would not play until they found another machine with high pots. Another player found a flaw in a machine called Ocean Magic. He would play min. bet till he seen something come up in the first reel, then max bet and was cleaning out the machine and got the ban.
A few weeks ago they started on VP players that was camping out on one bank of machines. When I say camping out I mean 6 to 10 hours at a time. Some longer and always there hogging up the machines during drawings. Other players wanting to play the machine bitching up a storm. Many on the bank playing DDB with a 99.96% pay back. The next thing I hear is 8 players some I knew all got lifetime ban.
So Friday I hit the casino for play and drawings. Only to see these small stickers near the card slot. These stickers are on every poker machine in the building. I run into another player I know who just got there and played a small amount of multi hand poker. I pointed out the sticker to him and he said he did not see that. He said as he was playing he was not getting many points. As you can guess it was 1 point per $1 on VP was changed to 1 point per $10 played. That ends any and all advantage on VP. For me to keep my current comp package I have I would have to put 10 times the play on I currently do.
So now I have this problem of trying to play what free play I might have coming to me on slots. I have no clue don't play slots so am in the dark here. Unless they are also taking away the 3 month average from us I should have free play for several months to come.
It was a hell of a run for about 4 years I did very well. Here in Mid Michigan I have to drive long distance from 45 min drive one way to 1 1/2 to 2 hours to get to a casino. So AP looks to be out unless a year or two out things change where I currently play. It's back to Recreational play for now.