Silver Slipper Casino, Mississippi Gulf Coast

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rascal
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Silver Slipper Casino, Mississippi Gulf Coast

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I have just returned to Laughlin-Bullhead after spending several months in Hancock County near New Orleans. I am trying to salvage some value from some property I own in Hancock County MS that was messed up (polite way of putting it ) during the hurricane a few years ago.
 
Anyway, during my short-term residence in Hancock County, I spent some time at a new casino, Silver Slipper. This is located right on the coast, and it is very convenient to where I was staying -- within a very easy 8-minute drive. Plus, the layout of the casino is amazing -- I was able to park in the garage and walk to the video poker area in about 90 seconds.
 
However, all of the amenities in the world don't make any difference if you can't win any money.
 
I am one of the long-timers on this forum. "A VP machine is a VP machine," has always been my attitude. As long as the casino is regulated, the only variation is in the paytables -- I thought!
 
However, Silver Slipper has changed my way of thinking. Over many visits during the past two months, and having run thousands of dollars through their VP machines, I have not a single jackpot to show. Not one! I have less than 10 quads. I have hit one (one!) premium non-jackpot hand (2222A on $1 DDB) in all that time.
 
I am someone who comes damn close to playing VP for a living. In Laughlin I rarely go to a casino without hitting at least one jackpot, sometimes more than one. I usually hit more quads in two or three sessions than I hit in two months at Silver Slipper.
 
After several weeks of cold play, I became intrigued. Even though I played at other casinos along the coast (IP, HardRock, Beau Rivige, etc) I spent enough time and enough money at Silver Slipper to analyze my return, to make certain that I wasn't just having incredible bad luck. I also talked to many other serious VP players on the coast, and the word is out: Something is seriously wrong there.
 
I am not going to libel or slander the casino; I am simply reporting (accurately) what my experience was and what others told me: Winning at VP there is hard to do. They have a "winners wall" near one of the entrances, and it is the most amazing thing you have ever seen. They have photos of people with jackpots so small that they are strictly routine occurances at most LV casinos. There are no photos of people with major jackpots.
 
This is not a chain casino. Apparently it is owned by a group of local investors.
 
This casino is supposedly regulated by the Mississippi Gaming Commission, an organization that I have the highest respect for. However, other VP players have speculated that perhaps because the casino is way out of the way, tucked into a far corner of Hancock County, that maybe they do not get the attention some of the others get. I don't know this for a fact and, again, I am NOT accusing the Silver Slipper of wrong-doing. All I am saying is that for a regulated casino I had an amazing run of poor returns.
 
Has anyone else on this board played there and, if so, what sort of results did you have?

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