Distressing CET VP Stories

[chattycattty]

Billyjoe, we did the Memphis trip a couple of years ago back when it was a level one 7 star experience.  Even though you are not a big basketball fan I think you will have a great time.  They limo you to the basketball game. We watched the game in a private suite with BBQ and other food and a full bar with comfortable stadium seats if you want to watch the game. We had our limo driver wait a couple of extra hours after the game so we could explore Beall street.  We brought another couple with us so it was relaxing to have a couple of drinks and listen to the local talent.  When we went the weather in January was mild, but in Memphis you never know. 

You get your choice between Harrah's, Roadhouse, or Horseshoe for your place to stay.  Roadhouse has by far the best Video Poker and is right next door to Horseshoe which IMO is the best place to stay.  There is a Gold Strike casino next door as well.  There is a shuttle bus that will take you to the other casinos.  I think there are a total of 9 casinos overall.  Once, when we went to Tunica we stayed at Harrah's but did not like it as well b/c it was off by itself and did not have as good a selection of VP and my wife did not like the high limit section as much. 
 
We had one of the best dinners we have ever had on this trip.  I think it is the same dinner that is now part of the level three 7 star experience.  I think they also still give you some Memphis Grizzly shirts and hats.  Anyway, if you go and if I can give you anymore info let me know.
 
One other thing if you decide to stay at the Horseshoe and decide to order room service they have the best lobster bisque we have ever had.

[BillyJoe]

Billyjoe, we did the Memphis trip a couple of years ago back when it was a level one 7 star experience.  Even though you are not a big basketball fan I think you will have a great time.  They limo you to the basketball game. We watched the game in a private suite with BBQ and other food and a full bar with comfortable stadium seats if you want to watch the game. We had our limo driver wait a couple of extra hours after the game so we could explore Beall street.  We brought another couple with us so it was relaxing to have a couple of drinks and listen to the local talent.  When we went the weather in January was mild, but in Memphis you never know. 

You get your choice between Harrah's, Roadhouse, or Horseshoe for your place to stay.  Roadhouse has by far the best Video Poker and is right next door to Horseshoe which IMO is the best place to stay.  There is a Gold Strike casino next door as well.  There is a shuttle bus that will take you to the other casinos.  I think there are a total of 9 casinos overall.  Once, when we went to Tunica we stayed at Harrah's but did not like it as well b/c it was off by itself and did not have as good a selection of VP and my wife did not like the high limit section as much. 
 
We had one of the best dinners we have ever had on this trip.  I think it is the same dinner that is now part of the level three 7 star experience.  I think they also still give you some Memphis Grizzly shirts and hats.  Anyway, if you go and if I can give you anymore info let me know.
 
One other thing if you decide to stay at the Horseshoe and decide to order room service they have the best lobster bisque we have ever had.
Thanks for the input, CC. I actually also had planned to do this a couple years ago, but after I scheduled it with Tunica, the NBA went on strike. The host set me up instead for a nice round of golf at Justin Timberlake's course in Memphis, but it rained the whole trip. Finally, I settled for the VIP Elvis Graceland Tour, which was nice. Dinner in the Wine Cellar @ Horseshoe was in there too, and that was fabulous.
 
I am definitely staying at Horseshoe, since it is close to Gold Strike, where I am NOIR.
 
Who knows - I may become a basketball fan (says the short, old, fat guy ).

[chattycattty]

The dinner we had was also in the wine cellar.  I think I would have to put among the best dinners of all time.  I hope it is still part of the level 3 experience.  We are thinking about going to Tunica the end of January.  Tentatively planning on being there on or around Jan. 25th to watch Memphis play the Houston Rockets, the team I root for.

[Vman96]

  Tentatively planning on being there on or around Jan. 25th to watch Memphis play the Houston Rockets, the team I root for.

Move that up to Rockets at Grizzlies Nov. 25th and I'll see you at the game?    I have tentatively booked Tunica for long weekend. Might be going to the Grizzlies game on Monday night since Stubhub is cheap. And I'm not a big NBA fan either, billyjoe, but it's good to get away from the cottonfields, and you have to give the 9/7 TDB machine a rest sometime, right?   

[ko king]

[QUOTE=chattycattty]
Billyjoe, we did the Memphis trip a couple of years ago back when it was a level one 7 star experience.  Even though you are not a big basketball fan I think you will have a great time.  They limo you to the basketball game. We watched the game in a private suite with BBQ and other food and a full bar with comfortable stadium seats if you want to watch the game. We had our limo driver wait a couple of extra hours after the game so we could explore Beall street.  We brought another couple with us so it was relaxing to have a couple of drinks and listen to the local talent.  When we went the weather in January was mild, but in Memphis you never know. 

You get your choice between Harrah's, Roadhouse, or Horseshoe for your place to stay.  Roadhouse has by far the best Video Poker and is right next door to Horseshoe which IMO is the best place to stay.  There is a Gold Strike casino next door as well.  There is a shuttle bus that will take you to the other casinos.  I think there are a total of 9 casinos overall.  Once, when we went to Tunica we stayed at Harrah's but did not like it as well b/c it was off by itself and did not have as good a selection of VP and my wife did not like the high limit section as much. 
 
We had one of the best dinners we have ever had on this trip.  I think it is the same dinner that is now part of the level three 7 star experience.  I think they also still give you some Memphis Grizzly shirts and hats.  Anyway, if you go and if I can give you anymore info let me know.
 
One other thing if you decide to stay at the Horseshoe and decide to order room service they have the best lobster bisque we have ever had.
Thanks for the input, CC. I actually also had planned to do this a couple years ago, but after I scheduled it with Tunica, the NBA went on strike. The host set me up instead for a nice round of golf at Justin Timberlake's course in Memphis, but it rained the whole trip. Finally, I settled for the VIP Elvis Graceland Tour, which was nice. Dinner in the Wine Cellar @ Horseshoe was in there too, and that was fabulous.
 
I am definitely staying at Horseshoe, since it is close to Gold Strike, where I am NOIR.
 
Who knows - I may become a basketball fan (says the short, old, fat guy ). [/QUOTE]
I've only played Mirimichi once, very nice course with greens as slick as they come.

[2222A]

There was a poster here a while back, Vegas local. She also validated that something had changed in the vp world. Last time I was at GVR in Vegas on a $5 bonus machine, I went 32 hands without a single winner . Math wizards would say 23 percent of time you should get jacks/better. I admit I went on tilt till I lost my $800 Tito. However my wife hit 2 royals, no wild, on a $1 deuce machine 1 hour apart.

[DaBurglar]

Caesars is doubling down in some of its existing markets os sure, it may look like they are still "expanding" but if you see through the semantical BS about attracting other investors to fund continued expansion, and notice other areas or properties that caesars owns that are NOT expanding but in fact are contracting or cost cutting, then I doubt the total reflects a huge net gain.   The debt still remains and is still unsustainable unless or until the economy changes or the business paradigm changes.  This is also a "fact", of the mathematical type....  I live in MASSACHUSETTS (for all you would be stalkers out there lol).   The Newly formed Mass Gaming Comm DENIED Caesars Entertainment Corporation last month the license to open the 1 billion dollar casino resort in the Boston Area it had planned:   The reason?   Massive unsustainable debt. I appreciate the article billyjoe posted, but something somewhere has to give eventually.  And I contend we who visit CET properties are already seeing it in these scaling back of comps efforts, however gradual or random, are just the tip.......and obviously, just like in society itself where the RICH rarely feel whatever everyone else feels, SEVEN STAR players will feel the reduction in comps least.

[olds442jetaway]

Poor vp returns not happening just in A/C. I think I posted a little while back the following....Between 5 and 6 million hands of single line Draw Poker and less than 30 Royals. Should have been well over 120. And the poorest showing is in the last 4 years. There are still a few players with tremendous luck even with horrible paytables. I have noticed most of them are one timers or irregular players. Really makes you wonder. I'm tempted to play with no players card in for a few months and see what happens. I have also noticed in Ct. that most of the Royal hits people are getting are on multi line games and not on the deal line.

[onemoretry]

I have also noticed in Ct. that most of the Royal hits people are getting are on multi line games and not on the deal line.

That makes sense. If you're playing a ten line machine, and you draw royal, it's 9 to 1 that it won't be on the first line.

And, usually, multiline games mean more total hands played - thus, more royals are likely

[DaBurglar]

i do not play (or have not played in the past) multi-line games except on rare occassions when I find one that I think is worth the risk because it is "fun",  As such, in the last two and a half years at the Taj in AC, I have played both the multi line dreamcard game and the multi line Quick quad game.    Since I play them infrequently, I so not have massive hand totals, but even still my infrequent play on these machines netted me the following stats: Total hands played on 3 line quick quad machine 25 cents:  156,003 hands over two-plus years (that's 52,001 deals playing 3 lines at max coin)  all hands were plain old JOB QQ coin in: $234,004    returned: 210,000    a percent of about 90%, which is quite shatty/shoddy  Total hands played on 3 line dreamcard machine(s) 25 cents at the taj (there are 3 of them but one was recently removed:  124,200 hands over almost 3 years (thats 41,400 deals playing 3 lines at max coins)   note:  I chose both bonus poker and JOB in my dreamcard games coin in: $310,500    returned:  285,600   a percent return of slighlty better 92%, which still blows.  Now here's the stinker:    number of royals on BOTH games amidst all these hands?    ZERO   NADA  ZIPPY   ZILCH  furthermore, in the 2 plus years I paid attention to these games and watched others play as well, never saw a royal.   i did see one lady playing dollars hit quad deuces three times in twenty minutes on dreancard deuces, but that was the best i saw or experienced.