Harrahs

[jetermacaw]

Was at Harrahs yesterday and there are a slew of new grey colored VP machine scattered around the floor in various states of readiness, will be interested to see what they are.

[dbldbl scotty]

harrahs joliet recently replaced their entire $1 progressive bank of slant tops with a new type of machine - kind of a cross breed of a slant top and an upright. about 40 machines or so.

the slant top was my favorite. very comfortable, lots of room. easy on the eyes. the new machines are ok - somewhat awkward. the screen is more upright, buttons flat instead of on a slight angle. has the hard foam for your forearms to rest on but no real place for a drink as its perfectly flat (i dont drink but i see this being a problem with spilled drinks = sticky buttons).

i didnt have any issues with buttons yet as they appear to have just been put in - probably in the last few weeks or sooner. had that new machine smell (j/k).

of course, nobody was hitting squadoosh for the 4 hours i was there. i hit a few quads but nothing to write the forum about. the royal hit for 4200 and we left a few minutes later.

they have to pay for those machines somehow!!!   :)

[Vman96]

Yeah tunica just put these in too. Actually they havent got around to horseshoe yet, but they had the old units off. I wrote more about this responding jeter's thread at Wizard of Vegas. I am tringlomane on that forum.

[jetermacaw]

I just read on the TA AC board that most if not all the VP machines were shut down this weekend at Harrahs, can anyone confirm this.

[Tedlark]

  Was this done in anticipation of a visit by roveer?

[Tedlark]

roveer posted about this in the Video Poker Stories forum.

[yankees4ever31]

Just returned from Harrah's last night and roughly 2/3 of the VP machines were out-of-service. They were turning them up and should be fully operational by next weekend.

yankees4ever31

[Tedlark]

roveer posted about this in the Video Poker Stories forum.

[jetermacaw]

Was at Harrahs yesterday 10/24,the new VP change over is still in
process. Not all machines are being affected as the change is scattered
around the casino. A lot of the old machines are still up and running,
my favorite has been untouched, thank God, as I hit my 5th Royal of the
year. The 3 9/6 machines in section DD are being replaced, but are still
in the same diamond configuration. Most of the new machines are now 8/5
or 7/5, I could not find one 9/6 even in Diamond Cove.

[doris13]

heard from my host that caesars entertainment has sold the claridge property.don't know how that's going to work since they connected claridge and ballys.