I phoned the Belterra casino in Indiana and asked about room and food comps. The host is Jim Swan . He said that their comps are based on theoretical. I told him that we will only be playing their best 25c VP games and will play about $6000 coin-in per day combined play. He offered me 2 nights comped upfront, and said that he would review our play and probably comp some food. He said that they have a buffet, steak house (new), and a 24 hour coffee shop.

Belterra has been changing its machines around again so I thought it was time for an update. BAD NEWS - The 50 Play 5c Super Aces are gone as are the 10 Play. All of these have been downgraded to 7/5. This was a great play on triple point's days. The 9/6 JOB multi-strike is now 8/5. It now takes $8 to earn a point on every Video Poker machine (1 point is worth 1c making cashback .125%). GOOD NEWS - There are now 6 100-Play and 6 50-Play machines with JOB at the 1c, 2c and 5c levels. On triple points days this is almost breakeven. Triple points in July are Tues, Thurs and Sunday. They briefly had 9/5 SDB on the machines but it disappeared last week. Maybe it will return? They have also added 25c 3/5 Play 8/5 Bonus as well (6 machines). The 9 $1 9/6 JOB machines still exist. OTHER NEWS - The old steakhouse has been replaced with a Jeff Ruby's steakhouse (he's a local restaurant legend) which is a different upgrade. The old coffee shop is now a full blown Starbucks (another big improvement) which makes comps useful for take-home coffee and stuff. Also a new tower has been built which has even better rooms than the already excellent original rooms.

Belterra Casino is about an hour and 15 minutes from Cincy. This is the nicest casino in the area, almost classy. They have the best rooms by miles as well. They also have the best low/mid roller VP. There are (6) 25c machines with 8/5 BP and Aces Bonus. There are also (2) 50c machines with 8/5 BP and Aces Bonus. They have (4) 5c 10-Play machines with 8/5 BP and 8/5 Super Aces. Also available are (2) 25c 9/6 JOB Multi-Strike machines. Belterra also has (12) $1 9/6 JoB machines. They also have x3 points on dollar machines every Sunday at the moment. That's a pretty good play for the weekend in this part of the country. Cashback is only 0.25% but they have x3 points every Tuesday and Wednesday and x2 points every Saturday in March. On multi-point days the 5c 10 Play SA is a really good game for us low/mid rollers. I get bounce back cash as well from all three. It's normally $10 x 4 from Belterra and Grand Vic (which can be $20 x 4 on specific days of the week) and $20 x 2 from Caesars ( x3 points for the other 2 weeks). That's with about $10,000 - $20,000 of action a month at each (very rough estimate).

Cashback has been halved for all VP. I talked to a host and was told that this is a permanent change.