Now only 1 sigma double joker 9/5 FP left. The three 8/5 double jackpot remain

I combed through all the IGTs in Great Cedar since they moved and all 9/7 DB was downgraded.

I was at Foxwoods last night. I did not find any of the .50 or $1 Sigmas in the Great Cedar. I ran into a technician supervisor coming out of the curtained area. He said that they are phasing out the Sigmas, since the founder died and no more are made, and that those machines are in a truck back to Las Vegas. The .25 Sigmas are still around for now in the Festival of Slots.

At foxwoods there are now ony (2) $1 8/5 Bonus and $1 10/7/4 DB.

There haven't been any major changes recently but you should update the list as follows: Points purge after 18 months but may be re-activated upon visit to the casino. Slot day is 6:00am - 6:00am. All the good machines on the list are upright models. .25 machines: The snack bar referred to is a Subway shop. The DB and BP macines do not pay 900 for 4 aces at this coinage. They should be removed from the list. 10/6/5 DB (99.3%) There are (3) of the .50 machines and they are Sigma's. No $1 machines at 10/6/5. 10/7/4 DB (99.2) There are (5) not (4) of these at $1 and they also are Sigma's. 8/5 BP (99.2%) There are (5) not (4) of these as well. 9/7 DB (99.1%) These are IGT's.

The BP machines are outside high-limit in the Cedar. I found 4 machines, not together. Near the wall, two on either side of the aisle. They're slow clunkers. Because they are Sigmas, they say "Four of a Kind Bonus" instead of "Bonus Poker".

Gas cards are now 150 points for $100. Still not bad with double points this month.

I was at the Woods last night and they changed the paytables on one or two of the Double Jokers in the casino by Bingo to 10/8/6/4/1/1 (I think that was it). Also near those machines, the .50/$1 Double Down Stud machines have lowered the paytable to 6-J being 1:1 (for the 97% version it is 6-10 is 1:1 J-A 2:1).

I scouted the high-limit areas and all the 9/6 JOB machines ($25+) and the 100 NSU deuces machine are DOA. On the $1.00 machines (played the Sigma BP)the coin count is now 90 before doubling (was 80 at my last visit), and for quarter machines it continues at 140. The lone $1 Double Joker has been donwngraded to 8/5.

I was at the woods last night playing at the casino near the bingo hall and they have installed some new Sigma TITO machines near the snack bar on the left hand side. They now have a few .25 9/5 Double Jokers (99.97%), 8/5 Double Jackpot Poker (99.62%), 10/6/5 (99.33%) and 10/7/4 (99.26%) DB. They also have 7/6/5 Double Double Jackpot (98.31%), a 10 Hand Stud poker machines and 5 Joker Poker (I'm not sure what the pay tables for those 2 are, I was in too much shock from seeing the other pay tables!). I can't figure that place out, they remove all of the pick'ems and install those games. Of course, only time will tell how long those paytables will remain.

All of the full pay PKM @ Foxwoods are MIA.

Noticed GameMaker $5.00 machines w full pay pickem in Grand Pequot casino high-limit area (which appear to be new) as well as the long standing $5 machines in the Great Cedar casino high area. The meters on .25c and .50c machines are at 140 and dollar and higher are at 80; so it appears they abandoned the 90 for all games.

I didn't have much time to take a good look arround but these are the paytables I saw in the great cedar casino at foxwoods: .25 - FP Pickem in the gamemakers in the alcove 7/5 bonus poker in the gamemakers in the alcove 9/6/5/(80 for full house) in the gamemakers in the alcove 9/6/5 (900 for Aces) in Sigma games in the alcove and with the short pay pickems on the main floor 8/5 Bonus (pays 50/40/20 for quads) (98.32%) in Sigma games in the alcove 8/5 Jacks in gamemakers with the short pay pickems on the main floor .50 - 8/5 Bonus (pays 50/40/20 for quads) (98.32%) in Sigma games 9/7/5 DB in IGT uprights 10/6/5 (900 for Aces) DB in Sigma - location and game details are unknown. $1 - 8/5 Bonus in Sigma - location details unknown. 10/7/4 (900 For Aces) in Sigma - location and game details are unknown. There are several other VP machines, but the paybacks are bad. It does take $90 for $1 and up VP and $140 for .50 and lower VP to earn 1 point.

As of 12/17/03, and all my previous recent visits (weekly), the Quarter Pick'em still requires $140 in to earn a point (.714) under regular circumstances (no double points). Also, the DB machines I viewed outside the Hi-Limit room in the Great Cedar Casino were 10/6/5 with 900 for 4 Aces, this works out to 99.33, with a varience of 32.5. If this were $70 coin in instead of $140, it wouldn't be a bad play for Foxwoods. These were the Halfs, I assume the Dollars are the same, but didn't check. I'm pretty sure the Dollars would be $70 coin in for a point, which may interest someone who plays 9/6 JB and wants a little more excitement?? Beware, with 2 pair... one pair being Aces, you keep the pair of Aces only.

After briefly scouting all the full pay machines I could find were: Old Casino (#2?) 5$ full-pay pick'em in high area, 1$ 8/5 bonus (Sigma, "4 of a kind bonus", 99.1%) just outside high area, $.25 full-pay pick-em in alcove; in old casino (#1) $25 9/6 jacks and $100 NSU deuces.