Report from a vpFREE2 User: In March of 2012, the Atlantis casino in Reno reneged on its offer to us to allow us to redeem slot club points for cash to cover our airfare. We had done this a couple of times and after discussing it with host John Weinreich we had things in place for this trip. Using slot club points to cover airfare makes it totally worthwhile for us to get to a place like Reno. When we were checking out and ready to get our cash for points, there was some mumbo-jumbo about whether the points we were redeeming we accumulated on that trip or previously. Anyhow, it was clear, they told us we could redeem points for cash to cover our airfare, and when we were checking out told us we could not do that.

My mailed offers have decreased from $300 a month to just $50.
In addition - the earned comp rate on the machines I play have been greatly reduced in just the last month:

100 Play Slant-top in HL Room
7/13: $100CI = 34pts = .34% earned comps
8/19: $1000CI = 85pts = .085% earned comps

3L $2 Progressive Slant-top FP TDB in HL
7/14: $25CI = 16pts = .64% earned comps
8/19: $20CI = 3pts = .15% earned comps

My guess is that all/most of the vp has suffered the same downgrades.

Troy Russell [email protected]

The 100-play NSUD in the "cave tunnel" have been downgraded.

MIA: (1) 50¢, $1 3/5 Play : 99.54% JoB Dream Card near gift shop

MIA: 25¢ SP : 99.17% BP Dream Card - Location Not Reported

Added $1 Denom to (2) 25¢ : 99.26% BPAF two leftmost slant-tops against wall to the right of Cafe Alfresco

Added Location - (2) 25¢ 99.26% BPAF two leftmost slant-tops against wall to the right of Cafe Alfresco

MIA: $1 10-coin Prog : 99.54% JoB near Xanadu Bar ($9400 reset)

Added to Database: 25c 10-coin Prog : 99.26% BPAF at the Sports Bar

Added to Database: (5) 25c Prog : 99.34% JoB overlooking the Waterfall Bar (4-way progressive)

Added to Database: (10) 25c Prog : 99.73% NSUD near gift shop

I just played there Monday on the $1 10/7 DB Prog at the bar. On a double points day, I was earning two points per $5 hand. So that tells me that those machines are $5/point normally. This is my favorite VP play anywhere because it is bartop and super-fast to play.

A vpFREE2 user reports some observations concerning Atlantis Players Club: Played on a 3x day single line quarters fpdb/NSUD: 10 machine prog near gift shop paid .03 for $10 coin-in in comps. 5 machine prog near Waterfall Bar paid .06 for $10 coin-in. All bars with NSUD paid .09 for $10 coin-in in comps. Card level point requirement is at least $100 per point. Do not know the exact amount required.

A recent report stated that many of the multigame machines have been downgraded. Also that it now takes $8 to $12 to earn one point on video poker.