Hollywood St. Louis

[Tedlark]

  I made a quick trip down to Hollywood in St. Louis Saturday Dec. 27th because they were offering a tier credit multiplier and I wanted to take advantage of it to reach Producer. I arrived and got settled into my comped hotel room and took a 2 hour nap. I awoke refreshed and after cleaning up I had dinner at their steakhouse, "The Final Cut". I enjoyed a very nice King cut Prime Rib and taking advantage of a $50.00 comp; made it even tastier.   Entering the casino I decided to start at a higher denomination game, playing Deuces Wild Bonus. I was approaching my loss limit for the game and then I was gifted with this:     I decided to go hang out in more familiar territory and left high limit and went to a bank of All Star machines that I've played before. Playing TDB I caught quad 2's with a kicker for $500.00. Keeping my interest in this machine, a little while later I caught:    Over the rest of the evening I got aces without a kicker twice and a host of quad 2's/3's/4's without kickers.   One thing I noticed was that machines were hitting ALL OVER THE PLACE. The guy next to me got a royal and so did a woman two machines over from me. A guy playing a single line machine across the isle from me also caught a royal.    I got my points for producer and left this morning happy.   Good luck all.

[pokerpokerpoker]

Sweet hits. I have seen those days a time or two, where everyone seems to be hitting. One time I walked into the VP area at Ameristar and there were 3 people waiting on hand pays - out of about 8 people playing. After I saw a few more in the next hour I started to wonder where is mine. Then, sure enough, I got mine.

[Galeygoo]

What an enjoyable story to read;  thanks and congrats, Ted.  I bet there are many people who would be proud of you as well, say Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, etc  to name a few.   Hope your luck continues; you seem to be on a roll 

[chattycattty]

Tedlark you are on fire. I hope your good luck streak follows you into the new year.

[Lucky Larry]

Congratulations Ted. Best wishes for a long hot streak.

[Tedlark]

  Thanks everyone; I'm going to ride her 'til she bucks me. Good luck.

[Vman96]

Nice hits! Especially the redraw deuces! I got that at the penny level in vegas in Sept...meh Did you play at Joliet at all this year? They have some really good paytables, especially on spin poker machines.

[Tedlark]

  Vman I may have played once at Hollywood Joliet this year, February maybe. I spent time at: Hollywood Lawrenceburg, IN; Hollywood St. Louis; Hollywood Tunica. I'm thinking about heading to Hollywood Aurora, IL soon and I'll probably go to Hollywood Joliet, IL too at some point.    I know many players like Spin Poker but its not for me.

[alpax]

Congrats Ted on those hits and making it to Producer level on Marquee Rewards, not sure if you do that regularly on top of maintaining status on Total Rewards. The benefits for the Executive Producer level are amazing at most Marquee Rewards casinos, at least at the M Resort in Las Vegas you can get 50% off at all restaurants, but that requires 125,000 tier points when Producer requires 30,000 tier points.

I do not like how the casino industry adapted the whole 6 month play period to determine membership level, it would require a mixture of slot play on point multiplier days for low rollers, or lot of high roller play for strictly VP players (the highest I see for VP is 2x and slots are 7-10x).

[Tedlark]

Thanks alpax. Except for this year I haven't played much at the Hollywood casinos and I'm not a fan of the 6 month tier qualification either. I've been Producer before but I never approached Executive Producer status and I regularly achieve Diamond with CET and at least you get your status for the full year with CET.

I try to take advantage of tier point multiplier days when I can and I really like the tier credit bonus that CET offers.