peaegg said:
Jason, which store in AC would give you slot dollar for table action? It never happened to me.
It is trump taj mahal, but I brought this on myself. Up until fall of 2008 I only played BJ there and received monthly match play coupons as bonuses. That summer I fell out of the chairman ranks and back to the 'executive ranks as my play fell off there due to not very good games. In fall of 2008, I set aside $1000 to play some video poker on each trip. I figured I would quickly aquire points which would bump me back to chairman status, would be great cover, I would earn many more comps (blackjack comps aren't great there) and if I could hit a royal somewhere along the line, I would probably break even or be ahead. I played maybe an hour or two each trip and every thing I was hoping for happened except I never hit the royal.
By the following summer I had exhaused the $1000 so I quit playing VP. Although I lost a thousand bucks, I did receive some benifit from it so it wasn't soo bad. One negative to the whole story is that somewhere along the line because of my video poker play, I started receiving my monthly bonus in slot dollars rather than match play coupons. I didn't see that one coming.
So last summer, I no longer played video poker except to play through my required slot dollars each visit and guess what? I have now hit 3 royal flushes while playing through my slot dollars. 25 cent machine last august for $1000, 25 cent machine in october for $1000 and $1 machine this month for $4000. Needless to say the video poker experiment turned out pretty well in the long run. I do wish I could get my match play coupons back, but I haven't even seen anyone at the tables play them for quite a while. Maybe they did away with match play and converted everyone to slot dollars.