All of the Optimum play machines by the Splash Cabaret are gone. A floor person told me they had been removed from the casino floor. The full pay dollar progressive double bonus and double double bonus machines remain in their same location.

IMHO, this is the nicest casino experience in Laughlin. Plenty of room to walk around the casino floor. High ceilings, friendly staff, nice background music. The back bar (Cove Lounge) now serves food so the whole back section of the casino is now non-smoking. All the games in the "Optimum Play" bank near the Cabaret lounge, need $4 for a point. So earning points on this bank is difficult.

The two 5$ Jacks or Better have been downgraded to 9/5.

Most of the inventory is accurate however I could not find the triple play 9/6 JOB in the high limit area

It appears that it takes a about $615 of coin in on 9/6 Jacks to earn one Tier Point.

5/22/12 Some of the machines in the non-smoking area were being worked on. Marked out of service and maybe being moved.

I have not been able to find the extra five 25c 10/7 DB machines "deep in from the main entrance." I think there are just the 10 optimum play machines near Splash. Also, the DDB in optimum are not 100% because the straight flush is set at 200.

Regarding the 5 $1 DB and 5 $1 DDB progressives: The bank is still there, just moved a bit deeper (10 ft) into the casino.

It looks like ALL the NSUD machines have been downgraded to Airport, i.e, Illinois Deuces. They still have their full pay machines but I believe they earn cash back at one forth the rate of other video poker machines. Video poker earns at half the rate of slot machines. They sill have some reasonable video poker, just that much is getting downgraded like in most casinos.

The new Tropicana cards are FIFO. They do look at your play every 6 months for card upgrade and I think the 7th month of play is deleted and not part of the decision. I believe the Aquarius has changed their system and you now mainly just need to keep their card active each year to not lose cash back and comps. They just upgraded my card and said my card level was good for one year. Card level points are earned on a very complicated and secret system. They do generally tell you some of the things they consider, but you have no way of knowing how many tier point you are earning. You need to wait until 24 hours later to find out have many points you earned the previous day. You can get a general idea by keeping track of you play, time, machine demonimation, etc. but this is not really worth it since it will still only be a "ball park" estimate.

Update on the Aquarius Casino Resort in Laughlin, NV as of 01/31/10 Regarding the Optimal Play VP - 10 machines deep in from main entrance by the Splash Caberet in Aquarius Casino Resort: 25¢ , 5 Coins , 1 Play , Slant-top , TITO 100.07% DDB 1-1-3-4-6-10-50.0-80-160-160-400-50.0-800 The pay scale actually is 1-1-3-4-6-10-50-80-160-160-400-40-800. The Straight Flush only pays 40:1 as opposed to 50:1 on these particular machines at Aquarius.

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*** MIA - *** $1/$5 9/6 JoB in high-limit area. $5/$10 (3/5 Play) 9/6 JoB in high-limit area. (3) $25 9/6 JoB old slant-tops in high-limit area.

*** MIA - *** (22) 25c uprights with 9/6 JoB and 8/5 BP just east of the main entrance/lobby. (5) 25c (3/5 Play) 9/6 JoB in casino area in front of reception desk.

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