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[BobDancer]

If you play to well Mr. Dancer you get kicked out? Care to explain how that happens.
  Sure.  Many casinos in Las Vegas stop mailers or other benefits to players they think are too strong. It appears to me that Station Casinos is far more aggressive at backing off players than are other casinos.  If you get ahead of them, and stay ahead of them for a couple of months, they will put your name on a list that makes you not eligible for any mailers, multipliers, or other promotions. This chain of casinos is not one to give you a sporting chance. Remember, a few years ago they filed for bankruptcy --- and then "bought back" the company for about $3 Billion less than what they originally owed. This $3 Billion was money owed to people --- that got "forgiven" by the bankruptcy court. It's a nice trick if you can do it --- but not if you're on the holding end of those now-worthless IOUs. Bob

[BobDancer]

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If that were true, Bob, then what is the big deal of these new machines? Multi-game machines have been around for a long time.
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 These machines were displayed at last year's gaming show --- although at the time anybody who saw them had to sign a NDA that you couldn't talking about them until they were released. I'm assuming that the announcement that they will be in casinos soon frees me from that NDA. Now they WANT publicity. At the show, I was asked by IGT and videopoker.com executives to tell them what I saw --- but I felt I couldn't do that --- and didn't. Also note that my information is 10 months old and I wasn't allowed to take notes at the time. They could have done a lot of different things between then and now. There are a lot of cosmetic preferences you get to choose between --- such as black, blue, or green background; You get a choice in the style of cards --- particularly how big the index numbers are --- or maybe there are some old style/new style cards. You get the "normal" speed and sound choices you see on IGT machines You get a choice between 2-color and 4-color cards (this is actually one I care about and have been suggesting to videopoker.com people for years to incorporate. So far without success. Now it'll be an option by WMS) I'm sure there were other choices as well. Most are "over-rideable" by the casino as they are on IGT machines --- meaning that if the casino doesn't want you to be able to change the speed or something else it doesn't have to activate that feature. Bob     

[BillyJoe]

 
If that were true, Bob, then what is the big deal of these new machines? Multi-game machines have been around for a long time.
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These machines were displayed at last year's gaming show --- although at the time anybody who saw them had to sign a NDA that you couldn't talking about them until they were released. I'm assuming that the announcement that they will be in casinos soon frees me from that NDA. Now they WANT publicity. At the show, I was asked by IGT andvideopoker.com executives to tell them what I saw --- but I felt I couldn't do that --- and didn't.
 
Also note that my information is 10 months old and I wasn't allowed to take notes at the time. They could have done a lot of different things between then and now.
 
There are a lot of cosmetic preferences you get to choose between --- such as black, blue, or green background;
 
You get a choice in the style of cards --- particularly how big the index numbers are --- or maybe there are some old style/new style cards.
 
You get the "normal" speed and sound choices you see on IGT machines
 
You get a choice between 2-color and 4-color cards (this is actually one I care about and have been suggesting top-videopoker.com people for years to incorporate. So far without success. Now it'll be an option by WMS)
 
I'm sure there were other choices as well. Most are "over-rideable" by the casino as they are on IGT machines --- meaning that if the casino doesn't want you to be able to change the speed or something else it doesn't have to activate that feature.
 
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Interesting, Bob. But I guess that kind of blows-up Blackjack Poker if you have four-color suits.

[DaBurglar]

[QUOTE=edog743]If you play to well Mr. Dancer you get kicked out? Care to explain how that happens.
  Sure.  Many casinos in Las Vegas stop mailers or other benefits to players they think are too strong. It appears to me that Station Casinos is far more aggressive at backing off players than are other casinos.  If you get ahead of them, and stay ahead of them for a couple of months, they will put your name on a list that makes you not eligible for any mailers, multipliers, or other promotions. This chain of casinos is not one to give you a sporting chance. Remember, a few years ago they filed for bankruptcy --- and then "bought back" the company for about $3 Billion less than what they originally owed. This $3 Billion was money owed to people --- that got "forgiven" by the bankruptcy court. It's a nice trick if you can do it --- but not if you're on the holding end of those now-worthless IOUs. Bob[/QUOTE]
   Stations absolutely blows now, but the sad thing is that, at one time back in the late 1990s (circa 1998-99), before the explosion of sick wanton relentless reckless expansion that gripped Vegas and casino gaming in general whereby EVERYONE was trying to get in on the gravy train by building "the next big great thing", this company used to be one of the "good" guys in terms of player deals, customer service and places to work in Vegas.  I can recall in 1999 staying at Palace station on a weekend in March getting a 49 dollar room rate for Friday-saturday, then staying an extra two nights sunday-Monday at 19.95 a night and there was NO ridiculous $12-15 per night "resort fee".  The Video Poker at Palace, as well as the other handful of Stations properties back then was amongst the Best in Vegas, and they had surprisingly good food at affordable prices. Then they went bonkers like everyone else, over extended themselves by expanding and buying up other questionable locations (especially the casino outside sacramento, CA that stations opened up with a local indian Tribe back in 2001, that place wound up costing them BIG and was one of the original impetus' for the companies sale/bankruptcy back in 2007(or was it 2008??  i forget, there were a number of filings and maneuvers by this now ethically compromised group)) Bob is correct to pont out how "sleazy" this company has become and its past antics....