First $1 VP Machine I sat down at....dealt four to a royal of diamonds and drew the lacking king! NICE! $1 progressive on JoB. Not so kind, on the second floor. Same with .25's Dont like the smoking rules, even the canadians realize they have to provide some better way to let patrons smoke. Right now, you have to go outside on the street and smoke. Canadians at least provide a heated veranda or terrace for that. Didnt hit much after the royal, but that was enough to wet my appetite to return! Hotel Horseshoe uses is the Ritz. Did not stay , but will the next time! chrisottsr

Although the Horsehoe Cleveland claims to be gambler friendly it is not. There are no full pay VP machines that I could find. The Ohio Gaming Commission recently reported that slots and video poker (the report grouped them together) returned only 88%. There are video poker games on the first floor with very poor pay tables (JoB 8/5). On the second floor there were mixed machines for example JoB 8/5 with 8/6. There were some progressives in an area nearby to these that were 7/5. Yikes! I saw Deuces Wild 20/12/10/4/4 - 97.58%; Bonus Poker Deluxe 8/5 - 97.40%. Also, the slots and video poker areas seemed very crowded or cramped together with machines. I wish they would improve the paytables especially with their high take. But it seems unlikely. chil44124

The video poker offering seems to be one of the poorest in the mid-West. There's 8/6 JoB at 98.39% which is generally unplayable but there seems to be no 99+ machines at all, whereas such machines can be found at other casinos in the region. The lack of any competition seems to be a factor and there seems to be little to convince the operators that a better gamble is needed. There's a good selection of games on IGT multi-game machines including Joker Poker with kings or better and trips or better pay scales but all with sub=par pay tables. There are Deuces Wild, or Bonus Deuces, but both has sub-98% pay tables.\ There are also multi-hand machines, but with 6/5 JoB pay tables, the gamble is exceedingly poor, even if they are nickle machines. And with the decreased benefits from Total Rewards, one might as well stick to some of the two-coin traditional slots such as the Double Diamond machines on the second floor with the 80-unit third coin payout for the scatter-pay on the Double Diamond emblems. There's little impetus to play the third coin and the credit rate with Total Rewards is double that for video poker. So all of you that have heard that video poker is the best gamble in any casino, take warning. That is not always the case, and is likely not to be the case when your apt to be playing a machine with a sub-96% pay table. Reprobate