The casinos crowds are much less now than reopening week. Hard Rock was the only large casino in town for a 2.5 hour driving radius and you could see the Reno hustlers setting camp. Now, Hard Rock is dead or slow on the weekends. Ditto for Thunder Valley and ghost towns for the smaller casinos during the week.

Too many bonus machines are turned off or not operational and the hustlers are constantly checking the few that are operational.

I am going back to playing games of skill like VBJ or VP or slot machines that I won’t disclose. The modus operandus is lose on the game and make up it on points into free slot play, promo’s, mailers, etc. It is a lot work practicing the games, losing money and then waiting until next month’s welfare checks. For starters, my comp balances have exploded.

There is one game that gets me an insane amounts of points. In the past, I have to play at off hours, now the machine is empty most of the time. I actually spent years giving away info to beat this game in another forum. When a game manufacturer creates a slot, it makes certain assumptions about randomness and this company never realized how one aspect could be exploited. Don’t get me wrong, over the years the manufacturer has updated its pRNG software as well as other countermeasures. But at the end of the day it’s a game of skill of a house edge of 50 bp. If I can get the house edge less than 30 bp, I start to make money off the casino’s marketing programs.

I will give an example of a game that is gone. There was a video version of Ultimate Texas Hold’em and you can count the outs. The house edge is roughly 50 bp (58 bp using Element of Risk per WoO). I don’t play live Poker so I had to learn to count outs and use the advance strategy by Grosjean. So with skill, I was able to reduce the house edge (I played multiple stations to see more players cards) and make money on promo days and mailers. It was work. The drain between premium hands was large. And it was a grind.

Here’s a link if you want the strategy card: https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/shop...texas-hold-em/

My point is rather than waste time walking around in a sea of too many hustlers chasing limited plays, I can go to my empty machine, run some coin in and make predictable money. Some casinos never change the structure of their promo’s (different theme for each month as it’s July 4th themed for next month). I’ll spend a couple hours afterwards making my rounds and then it’s back home.

There are many of these skilled based slot games that APs do not share and if someone told you the angle, you would probably get upset for not seeing it. UTHE required counting outs & an advanced strategy to reduce the house edge, which can make it a play in the right environment.

It was very easy for me to run $10K to $20K at low risk through video UTHE in a day using multiple seats.