Originally Posted by FABismonte View Post
Went to Harrah's Northern California yesterday for the first time.

The road was fine if only one lane each way. But rather than blindly follow GPS directions, you should follows traffic signs and use broad and well paved Buena Vista Road.

The blackjack I saw looked 3:2 payouts. The card craps on that Sunday afternoon was $5 min with 10 times odds. No Bubble Craps.

The video poker sucks: By way of example, 6/5 Bonus Poker (150 on all quads), 8/5 Double Bonus Poker, 6/5 JOB. Bunch of Chinese style penny video slots.

Free fountain soft drinks were nice.

No rooms or reason to go there but to gamble at tables.
A team of AP plays here ... it’s the same team that hustle the Aruze Bubble Craps throughout Reno & Tahoe area & high limit VP promotions at Cache Creek. They hustle low IQ promo’s.

They are what we call dim-witted AP’s but have money to burn. Even Cache Creek knows they are AP’s but let them play because Cache Creek makes money off this team during the promo. And to show you guys how dim-witted this team is, they play the 5th best VP opportunity during the Cache Creek promo ... the best game is like 5 feet away from them but they don’t know it. The Cache Creek reporter for vpfree2.com told this to me personally.

Here is another example: after Red Hawk fixed a glitch in the Bubble Crap, it was allowing Free Play through the machine, the dim wits played Bally’s SD Video BJ to run through their Free Play but Bally’s was H17 while the IGT machines with S17 and similar rules were just 15 feet away. Btw, Red Hawk casino cut the team off.

Last month in December, Harrah’s in Ione had a promo where you get free play (no cap on FP) on Fridays. This tall white guy wearing glasses and a female partner were banging away on 3-Play 7/5 DSTP BP at $21 a hand in the new “high limit” section. The game was worth 98.5% and say 1% from the promo.

Harrah’s in Ione is hurting for business with the casino being full on Saturday’s and whenever they run promo’s.