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.

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.

All of the full pay PKM @ Foxwoods are MIA.

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.

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.

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.

*** Just got back from Foxwoods, usually go every Tue/Wed. It still takes $140 in to equal $1 comps on Quarter and Half VP. Also, there aren't any Discretionary or Marketing comps that I have ever heard of. If there were such, and you played at a level to be there, it wouldn't matter in a way, as you'd have more than enough points to do as you please anyway. BUT, 10-15K day would get you in a mid-level lounge, which includes Bar, tv's, and pretty decent hot and cold spreads. They also do mailers.. My X was a green chip BJ player and received 4 coupons per month (all $20's, 2 for food, 2 for Points; use 1 per week, Mon-Fri.), and one or 2 free nites.

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.

*** $90 coin-in now earns 1 point on all machines and all denominations.

The only deuces they have in the .25-$1 range are ugly deuces, really ugly deuces and these-are-so-bad-I-should-just-stick-with-slots-deuces.