Video Poker Forum

IP in Biloxi was once a video poker mecca. Plenty of good machines, plenty of good paytables.

For one reason or another, I had not been to the Mississippi Coast in several years. So when I went to the coast last week, I made a beeline for IP.

To my surprise, the casino has turned into almost totally slots. The VP is almost not existent. What's left has decent paytables and a variety of denominations, but in the high limit room you basically have your choice of 4 single line machines and 3 or 4 carnival machines. That's it. In previous visits, there was VP everywhere in high limit. Now, it is about 85% slots. I am sure there is still small denom VP scattered elsewhere in the casino.

Even the bars, which were previously 100% VP, are now Keno, Slots, and a couple of leftover VP machines.

I did ok on the 4 single line high limit machines, but I was absolutely amazed at the change in what was once a VP's player's go-to casino.

Some bars at Mohegan Sun switched to slots and keno too. The bar in the poker room that was all Vp never even reopened. Sad. What is happening is my Vp generation is getting into their 70s-80’s. 90 percent of the younger casino crowd has no interest at all in Vp.

AC has not experienced this yet. Patrons too hooked on VP. A couple venues lowered their tables, but we can evade them.

We were amazed a couple years ago how much IP was changing on an overnight stop heading to Fla.