Las Vegas: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

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Re: Las Vegas: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Post by olds442jetaway »

I guess though sometimes we would like to think otherwise, whatever happens on any given trip or trips are still considered to be short term results. Maybe not after years of play and millions of hands, but who knows. Maybe that is still considered to be short term results as well.

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Post by DougJ »

Although I titled this thread, I should amend it to read: " . . . THREE steps back."
I had a couple of comped nights at Cosmo, so we just finished our staycation there.

It was so disappointing on so many levels. Lax or non-existent cleaning property -wide is now the rule. Whatever sanitation Cosmo was doing around June 4th reopening lasted about a week, and now they are back to their lazy, dirty look. I doubted the Vegas casinos would follow their own rules for long, but surely not just for the first week of opening.
Our room was just disgusting. There was dried, crusty, leftover vomit on the toilet seat. How can the housekeeper not clean the toilet? The bedsheets were wrinkly, didn't look fresh at all. Mysterious stains all over the sofa in the room. Just beyond disgusting room.

On the casino floor: machines were back to being covered in cigarette ashes, and leftover drink cups and garbage left on flat top machines. At one point, I flagged down a "suit" to call the cleaning crew. He wore a mask, but proceeded to cough A LOT. I wasn't standing next to him, but I couldn't back up far enough fast enough. This was on the same day that the LV newspaper (the RJ) ran an article about many employees' positive virus tests throughout Cosmo, but details as to which departments are "confidential."

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Post by Sea Lion »

markinca wrote:
Wed Jul 01, 2020 7:17 pm
Sea Lion wrote:
Mon Jun 29, 2020 9:08 am
Rampart and Suncoast will take your temp and give you a mask when entering. Both are enforcing the mask directive. Masks will break sooner or later from removing/adjusting, and putting them back on. Masks are... made in China. I play a lot of 10 play 9/6 DDB and 8/5 BP at both, and after reopening June 4, it seems impossible to hit 4 aces or above at both places, even after hours and hours of playing. Quads seem to be about every 3000 hands or so, and will most always be 4- 5 thru K's. I might hit 4- 2,3,4 with a kicker, but only one during a 7 or 8 hour session. Most, if not all major hotels here in LV, strip or off strip, VP machines are also hooked up to a central server. Updates are injected through those servers. My suspicions are very high at this point as all casinos are trying to recover lost revenue from being shut down. The only place I have done well believe it or not is the Riverside in Laughlin playing QQ. All of my sessions here in LV have been losing sessions since the reopening. :x
I was actually at Suncoast for a few days a couple weeks ago, and my VP was overall literally break-even. I actually hit quad 3s with kicker and quad 4s with kicker on TDB in limited play. But I lost a lot at Triple Bonus Poker Plus. Overall like I said, literally $0 win/loss at the end. I didn't notice machines behaving any different than normal. I did find it strange though that in my many hours of playing TBPP that I never got quad 2s. I hit every other quad but never quad 2s.
I play those 10 plays between the buffet and the sports bar. They have 99% games as long as you don't play the 2 cent progressive. That dealt RF will never hit. Wouldn't surprise me if they "reset" it during the wee hours in the morning as some point to make it look like someone hit it. Anyways, yesterday I managed to get three 2,3,4 w/k off the top off of a dealt pair, and even a RF from a dealt "foyal". Came up almost $400 before I cashed out and called my wife over to pluck the rest of the "fish" from the machine before it went cold. Still no aces to be found...

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Post by DougJ »

It's just a sh**show now in Vegas.

Weekday casino visitors has plummeted since the re-opening. Palazzo tower had opened on June 4--last week, it closed again. Wynn had yet another round of permanent layoffs yesterday.
Some departments totally decimated at Wynn

Derek Stevens boasted on June 4 about "pent-up demand." Not so fast, buddy.

IMO, based on my limited once a week trips around town, locsls feel less safe now than ever. M security guards do less now than their dismal enforcement in week one. Here's the key: at M, the disgusting smokers light a cig and keep it permanently in hand so they never wear a mask. Never. Or, place a cup on the machine (empty), and never wear mask.

Its no longer an option to pick up free play and run....fed up with the incompentent casino employees. At M.a cage cashier tested positive, and she was told by M to tell no one ( but she told the LV newspaper)

Zero sympathy for the slow casino business.
Meanwhile, daughter was at 4 Winds in MI, now non-smoking, it was packed full

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Post by DougJ »

BOOM. The other shoe has dropped.

Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest Las Vegas convention each year, has CANCELLED its show in person and is going to do it digitally only this coming January.
That is about 170,000 visitors NOT coming to Las Vegas.
The Governor here is partly to blame, for looking the other way and talking a good game, yet allowing casinos to do what they want. In some cases, that is zero enforcement of masks and social distancing.

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Post by olds442jetaway »

Wow. That is a huge show. And is on the news every year

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Post by Sea Lion »

I have seen way more slot machine winners than VP since the reopening on June 4th. In fact, almost everyone I've talked to has been losing playing VP here in LV, including me. Makes me wonder if those centralized servers are really being tinkered with after all in order for casinos to make up that lost revenue and fade out VP. I would not doubt it as some casinos are more concentrated on hounding players who lower their mask in order to take a sip off a drink or a toke from that nasty ass cigarette or cigar.

We should also be hearing on Sahara's fate this week from the NGCB.

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Post by billryan »

Most players lose at video poker. Most video poker sessions are losers.
Pre-virus, post virus.

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Post by Sea Lion »

Even moreso post virus. The premium "fish" seem to be more MIA than ever.

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Post by billryan »

Jackpot hands are rare, and with many casinos only having half the machines open, you'll see half as many winners as before. On the other hand, there are fewer losers.

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