Thanks for confirming, Triple.

Any strong opinions on where the best promotions will be on this coming Sunday, Labor Day weekend?

With Md Live's downgrade of video poker last month, it looks like MGM now has the best VP out of the 3 area casinos with DB (99.1%).

md live used to be best with 99.4% deuces wild but its been lowered to 98.9%

http://casinoconnectionac.com/issue/...-eye-new-games

The Maryland Lottery and Gaming Commission has given preliminary approval of a drop of up to 3 percent in the minimum theoretical return-to-player percentage allowed for slot machines at the state’s casinos. According to a report in the Baltimore Sun, a final decision on implementation of the new rule is pending from state officials.

The minimum payback percentage on Maryland slots is currently 87 percent.

The News 4 I-Team, an investigative unit of the Washington, D.C.-area NBC affiliate, reported last week that Maryland’s slots pay out slightly less on average than they did in 2012

It would be a good idea to discuss slot machines in Other Gambling Games where people might care.

there are probably Md poker players that also play slots/vp and would care about this, and don't read other forums.

thx for the suggestion.
I created a thread there. here's the link:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/3.../#post53055547


and Just out of curiosity Rapini, what made you sign up to be a mod?

Thanks for creating the new thread in the correct forum.

I was asked to become a mod by the mods of the forum. I accepted so that I could make the forum a better place. Did you find it helpful that I was able to let you know the correct forum for posts about slots?

"skill-based video games and eSports competition can boost sagging revenues for the casinos."

You have got to be f-ing kidding me... does anyone else find it frustrating that the gambling market as a whole in MD is going gangbusters, yet the corporations that profit from it act as if they are struggling to regulators?

Yes, I'm a rec poker player, and occasionally play VP for bonus payouts, etc., so I'm appreciative that AA Suited brought this to my attention in a poker forum that I follow.

(feedback provided so that forum mods can better act in the interest of readers... this thread is relatively light, so new news re: MD in general is welcome to me.)

yes and no.
the "where people might care" part came across as irritating and hostile.

my 1st thought was when did you become omniscient and know that no one in this sub-forum would care about my post?


a better response would have been:
'Please discuss slot machines in Other Gambling Games and link that thread here.'

or just:
'Please discuss slot machines in Other Gambling Games.'
and leave off that little jab at the end.


I do agree you make the forums better but sometimes you unnecessarily come across as not so nice in doing so.

Thanks for the slot info. A lot of us play VP with our free slot play so it's definitely something people here care about. If you really want to make the forums a better place, maybe try being polite?

Fair enough. I apologize for my poor choice of words.

Hopefully now that everyone knows where to discuss non-poker gambling, we can keep posts related to it in the right place.

Any thoughts on who has the better promo this Saturday, MDL with the 15 minutes high hand or MGM NH with the lucky table drawing?

Let's do some math and find out.

MGMNH has $500 per player lucky table at 9:15 and 10:15, then $300 per player from 11:15 through 3:15. If there are 10 players at a table, that's $5K or $3K per hour they are giving away.

ML has $500 every 15 minutes, 11am-11pm. That's $2K per hour they are giving away.

If ML has a lot fewer players at eligible tables, only then would they be giving away more dollars per hour per player. I'd guess both rooms will have very VERY roughly the same number of players at eligible tables.

I guess the answer in MGM NH early in the day and then ML later in the day.

The thing is MD Live's promotion runs for longer hours.

All in all, on that day, by my calculation MGM gives out 25k while MD Live gives 24k. If you divide that by the number of eligible players and the fact that Live's promotion is more spread out throughout the day, MGM's promotion is stronger, which is actually surprising to me.

But ML will only have 48 potential winners and MGM 70 (assuming 10 handed). The ML 48 get $500 and the MGM average $357. Need to factor in number of tables - ahh my head exploded.

Unrelated to poker. But I am planning on visiting the area in a couple weeks. Apparently the pit boss at MGM told a friend a mine that every blackjack game in Maryland is now at 6/5. Anyone know any truth to this?

About 90% of the games at MGM are 6:5 with CSM. The pit nearest to the Poker room is all 3:2 S17 and is usually $25 during the day and $50+ at night. You should be able to find a $25 3:2 game most of the time.

As for the rest of Maryland I know that Horseshoe is mostly 6:5 now and I think Maryland Live has transitioned into some 6:5 now as well. Maryland is no longer the blackjack haven it once was but thankfully the Poker is still great.


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Nov2017 revenue: http://gaming.mdlottery.com/wp-conte...e_slots-TG.pdf

Live! Casino, at Arundel Mills, had $43.4 million in November gaming revenue, down by 13.5 percent from a year earlier. (Nov 2016 is the last month before Mgm opened.)
Nov 2017 Non-Banked Games (poker?): $1,144,510.00

Baltimore’s Horseshoe Casino had $22.7 million in November gaming revenue, down 20.3 percent from a year earlier.
Nov 2017 Non-Banked Games (poker?): $484,064.00

MGM Nov 2017 Non-Banked Games (poker?): $1,872,054.06
less tables than md live, yet 60% more poker revenue!

Is the rake higher at MGM?

Well right now at 9am on Sunday MGM has 10 tables running and Live has 5. MGM may have fewer tables, but they will have more games going then Maryland Live most of the time. Unless obviously both rooms are full.


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Rake is the same


--klez

I have played exclusively at MGM since they opened. If they start charging for parking, I will be going back to Live. I don't understand why a Casino wants to charge for parking, people park there so they can give money to the Casino.

I’d be ok if they made it free for anyone who has a players card. If they want to charge non-gamblers money to eat at their over priced restaurants or shop at their over priced stores all the power to them.


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If their Las Vegas results are any benchmark, people are going to park there *anyway* to give money to the Casino. They might as well get an extra $10 or $15 out of each car. In LV at least parking is free for Pearl and above.

The BIG difference - from a poker standpoint - is that SO FAR...MGMNH has shown no inclination to giving poker players tier credits or mlife level credit based on poker hours played. So in LV, poker players that play even a bare minimum amount of hours could make Pearl or even Gold (which would get you free valet too). IIRC it was 75 or 150 hours played in a year.

MGMNH just has shown no progress on this front after...14 months? IMO I wouldn't count on anything like this happening at MGM NH. Too much of a captive audience. But I would love to be proven wrong.

But then again, parking is millions in free revenue for them. In fact MGM just announced on their recent investors call that they are actually raising their LV parking rates - again - at a few of their resorts.

FWIW I agree with you. But I dont work for MGM corporate lol.

You should keep in mind that in LV poker players didn't get tier credits or higher level cards for poker play UNTIL they started charging for parking.