New: (5) 25c Prog : 99.17% BP Between cafe and main entrance--they say preferred poker

The new Tropicana cards are FIFO. They do look at your play every 6 months for card upgrade and I think the 7th month of play is deleted and not part of the decision. I believe the Aquarius has changed their system and you now mainly just need to keep their card active each year to not lose cash back and comps. They just upgraded my card and said my card level was good for one year. Card level points are earned on a very complicated and secret system. They do generally tell you some of the things they consider, but you have no way of knowing how many tier point you are earning. You need to wait until 24 hours later to find out have many points you earned the previous day. You can get a general idea by keeping track of you play, time, machine demonimation, etc. but this is not really worth it since it will still only be a "ball park" estimate.

It looks like ALL the NSUD machines have been downgraded to Airport, i.e, Illinois Deuces. They still have their full pay machines but I believe they earn cash back at one forth the rate of other video poker machines. Video poker earns at half the rate of slot machines. They sill have some reasonable video poker, just that much is getting downgraded like in most casinos.

New: (5) 25c : 100.17% DB, 99.96% DDB Deep in from main entrance by the Splash Cabaret

MIA: (10) 25c : 99.96% DDB deep in from main entrance by the Splash Caberet

Update on the Aquarius Casino Resort in Laughlin, NV as of 01/31/10 Regarding the Optimal Play VP - 10 machines deep in from main entrance by the Splash Caberet in Aquarius Casino Resort: 25¢ , 5 Coins , 1 Play , Slant-top , TITO 100.07% DDB 1-1-3-4-6-10-50.0-80-160-160-400-50.0-800 The pay scale actually is 1-1-3-4-6-10-50-80-160-160-400-40-800. The Straight Flush only pays 40:1 as opposed to 50:1 on these particular machines at Aquarius.

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*** MIA - *** $1/$5 9/6 JoB in high-limit area. $5/$10 (3/5 Play) 9/6 JoB in high-limit area. (3) $25 9/6 JoB old slant-tops in high-limit area.

*** MIA - *** (22) 25c uprights with 9/6 JoB and 8/5 BP just east of the main entrance/lobby. (5) 25c (3/5 Play) 9/6 JoB in casino area in front of reception desk.

Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds is buying Stratosphere

i was in laughlin last week and quite a few of the positive machines listed for aquarius i did not find. the only ones i found were the ten back by the buffet 25c only.

*** MIA - *** (6) 25c large screen 9/4/4 BDW slant-tops near hotel registration.

Those ten 10/7 Double Bonus 25 cent slant-tops have now been moved deep into the casino but still, more or less, directly in from the main entrance. This also applies to the NSUD on these same machines. And also on these machines is 9/6/90 Jacks or Better (90 to one on the straight flush).

Ultimate Rewards is now A.C.E. Rewards, and "Action Cash" has been replaced by a new cashback program. It now takes $1 to earn a point on slots, $2 on video poker and $8 on positive video poker at all ACE properties. 600 points equals $1 cashback. There will also be a weekly mailer with additional cashback and food comps for active players.

Aquarius. There’s okay news for vp players here. I found a back to back row of $.25-only slant-tops (10 or 12 total) with 9/6 JoB, 9/6 DDB, 9/7 DB, 8/5 BP, 9/6 BPD, and the requisite ugly ducks near the Arizona Tower restrooms and the poker room (the north side). It’s harder to find plays at the $.50 level. I couldn’t get to many machines to read pay tables (heavy crowd during the grand opening), but I only found five $.25, $.50, and $1.00 slants with 8/5 BP between the showroom and the hallway to the buffet. All the other games on those machines were short pay. There are full pay $1-only slant-top machines in the little alcove right by the main door to the riverwalk on the Edgewater side with the same games as the quarter slants. Summary: nothing over 100%, and you either play quarters or dollars for multi-game full-pay (or nearly full-pay in the case of the DBs). Slots $1=1 point, VP $2=1 point.