New: $1, $5 : 99.54% JoB location not reported

Added 25¢, 50¢ Denoms to (3) $1 3/5 Play : 99.54% JoB rear right corner of bottom floor, past poker tables

New Location - (3) $1 3/5 Play : 99.54% JoB rear right corner of bottom floor, past poker tables

Player's Club Update

Players Club Info - Cash and free play must be redeemed in $5 increments. Comp redemption is flexible. Gold cards receive 2x points every day, platinum cards 3x, and millionaire cards 4x, which makes a huge difference. Millionaire status is very hard to achieve, like Seven Stars status. Multiple point days are frequent, and can boost these multipliers, but some of them exclude VP. Information on multiple point days is available on the casino's Web site. Those who put in substantial play receive monthly mailers with additional free play offers. Points expire after 13 months of inactivity.

MIA: 25c : 99.95% PKM Game Makers on the bottom floor of the Grand Palais boat behind the escalators

MIA: (6) $1 3/5/10 Play STP : 99.54% JoB against left wall under escalator on bottom floor of the big yellow boat

MIA: (1) $1 1 Play SP : 99.54% JoB $1 Spin Poker against left wall under escalator on bottom floor of the big yellow boat

MIA: (4) 5c 100 Play : 99.54% JoB under escalator on bottom floor of the big yellow boat

MIA: (2) 5c 50 Play : 99.54% JoB under escalator on bottom floor of the big yellow boat

Recent changes, December to January over a period of three weeks.
First the $0.05 multi-hands were reduced from 99% returns to 97-98%. Then the 50¢ and then the 25¢ machines were changed and lowered in a bizarre way!
Deuces Wild, JOB, Deuce Wild Bonus, Aces Bonus, and Joker have been removed from all 25¢ machines but remain on 50¢ machines. Quarter machines added TDB+ (97.67% 7/5/4…); TDB (98.15% 9/6/4…); SDB (97.77% 7/5/4…); and SDDB (97.69% 6/5/4…)

We drove to the Isle yesterday and found that they have made some unfavaorable changes to the VP inventory. Two of the six Hundred Play machines and five of the 3P/5P machines against the far wall are gone, replaced by new GameMakers w/ single lines games w/ bad paytables and KENO. Of the four remaining 3P/5P machines, only one still has the good games at the quarter level. On the other machines, the good games only show up at the $ level. AFAIK, the STP and SP machines remain as is. I did not search both boats looking for the missing machines but a local player told me he did and they are just gone--poof. He was complaining b/c there are several locals who tie up the 50/100 Plays while playing 1-3 lines for 1-5 coins. Now there will be even more competition for the remaining machines. And who's to say that they are through w/ their improvements? The Isle already excludes VP from point multiplier promotions and has made it clear that VP players are not valued. Apparently they can't distinguish between someone playing one nickel a hand vs. $12.50 or $25. Once again management just doesn't have a clue. Honestly, I don't know what management at the Isle is thinking. They seem to want to follow the lead of L'Augerge du Lac and offer only full pay games at the $ and above level. What they don't seem to realize is that anyone who plays dollars and above would be crazy to play at the Isle with their dirty shabby rooms, lousy food and lack of other ammenities. They are a lesser property and should market to a different clientele. Most of their drawings and giveaways are directed at the locals so why not set up a whole floor or nickel VP on the smaller boat and let them pound away one nickel at a time. Then reward them with drawing tickets, gifts and FP. Meanwhile chase off players who run $50,000+ per day through machines. Sounds like another brilliant plan to me. As much as I love playing those multilines, this is probably our last trip to the Isle. I would love to know how chasing off all the VP players is affecting their bottom line but I doubt anyone there is smart enough to figure it out.

*** MIA - *** (3) 50c (3/5 Play) MG/MD against right wall under escalator on bottom floor of the big yellow boat.

*** MIA - *** 5c thru $1  9/6 Bdlx, 16/11 DDW and 9/5 WHA. 25c/50c SL NSUD and 9/6 Job. 5c/10c/25c NSUD and 9/6 JoB SP.

*** MIA - *** (8) 25c PKM Game Makers (2 are TITO). $1 SL NSUD and 9/6 JoB