Surviving Biloxi

[FloridaPhil]

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[alpax]

Thanks for the trip report! I enjoyed it, your wife saved the trip for sure. Congrats on those hits.

Strategy Wise in fooler deuces your wife made the correct play.

You only hold a dealt wild Royal if you have 3 deuces. You toss a 5oaK and straight flush away.

[Lucky Larry]

Phi,
Glad you had a enjoyable trip to Biloxi. We've concur on the pay tables and we've too have heard the old "Isle" - Golden Nugget really looks good. Hope to get over there again someday. The new Golden Nugget in Lake Charles is definitely Vegas of the Gulf Coast.

[notes1]

phil, glad you had a good time and escaped with your bankroll intact. the fact that you can get a comp room for an extended time period means one is either a high roller or the casino needs the customers. and, if it is the later, why do they need the business, might tell us the reputation that now have for poor play results.am i reading correct, you played at least two days at the beau and only had the one quad deuces?  

[Mr.Dawes]

Sounds like a great trip. Congrats on the wins. I was at the IP the day before you got to Biloxi. I spent several hours building up the progressive royal for you guys. It was at $1,362 when I left but it sounds like you didn't stop in there.Curious about your comps at the Beau. I usually just take day trips and spend $2,500 to $3,000 coin in per trip twice a month. They offer me Sunday thru Thursday rooms which I can't use because of my work schedule and $60 monthly free play. I am going to switch to the IP for a while to see what offers I get from them.

[Vman96]

Nice hits! Depends on the comps you get, but I would consider moving your play to the Nugget with that paytable. Has to be better than the Beau.

[FloridaPhil]

We actually only hit 2 quad deuces at the Beau over the entire trip, luckily one was for $500.   Some guy that was playing next to me for two days said he heard the games were rigged to never payout if you were dealt two deuces.  I told him with odds this bad, they didn't need to rig anything.  I'm sure the reason the Beau gives away the comped rooms is because it's the only way they can get players.  They let my wife and I play on the same account, so we probably look like one decent player to them.With the Cheap Strategy the odds don't matter that much as it all hangs on the luck of hitting a few max coin jackpots.  Over the years we've learned that winning at video poker is all about what happens on a very small number of hands.  If those two hands I posted didn't happen, we would have lost $2K.Interestingly enough, except for a small group of old standup clunker machines at the IP, all the DW odds in Biloxi really stink since Margaritaville closed.   It works for us because we can drive there and the rooms are free.  I think the entire 4 day vacation cost us about $200 in gas and tips.

[notes1]

i think you got a great deal for the money spent. you are absolutley correct, the difference between a winnng and losing session normally comes down to just a couple of hands.

[olds442jetaway]

Nice trip and hits Phil and Mrs Phil. You are right about the few hands separating OK results from disaster. Just back from an overnight marathon at Mohegan Sun. These are the hands that bailed me out and I ended down about 140 bucks compared to 500 or so 2/3 of the way through the session. Wild Royal on Double Down Stud, 5 of a kind on the same game, Deuces quads on a nickel game, the new Asian slots, and 5 Wild Royals in 15 minutes playing the Phil method on quarters near the end of the session. Also had 4 shots at a Royal with 4 dealt, but still can't connect. Well over a million hands now without one. Not counting accurately anymore. The Deuces are keeping me at least in the game with a little help from the Asian slot game.

[rascal]

I am on the Mississippi Coast several times per year. I absolutely refuse to play at the Beau as a matter of principle. Their paytables are beyond awful. At the IP in high limit there are some decent paytables on $10 - $25. I have found the best paytables to be at the Silver Slipper just to the west of Bay St. Louis. The Coast is a highly competitive casino market, so I am uncertain why the paytables are so universally awful. As far as your comment about the Beau needing to throw in everything just to attract players --- I wish it were so. However, I have been to dinners and meetings there where I had to walk through the casino and its awful paytables, and it is frequently packed. Many people just don't care about the paytables. If VP players would organize and boycott greedy casinos such as the Beau, there would be better paytables. But as long as there are sheep, there will be fleecers......