"The video poker is now $11 coin-in for one point on all video poker machines. 100 points are still worth $1 free play. You also earn food credits for playing which are in a separate account."

The rape of Cal Neva has occured. Every formally full pay machine I checked is now garbage. The 50 and 100 play Jacks are now 8-5. All the 5 and 25 cent and up single play Double Bonus are now 9-6. Everything I checked was not only reduced but both full house and flush were lowered. Club Cal Neva is now a VP wasteland.

Bounce Back Cash / Free Play / Marketing comps...
Got a mailer with $21 per week free play for the next 6 weeks-- only second visit.
Free room offer with slot toun. entries and $10 Free Play.

Inactivity for a 24-month period will cause membership benefits to expire. But I think comps never expire. I was there yesterday and still had food comps. I haven't been there in 4 years. I think it is $12 to get a point. The meter on the $0.25 double bonus started at 1,200.

*** MIA - *** 5c/10c MG/MD 10/7 DB Spin Poker under the escalator.

*** MIA - *** (4) 5c/10c/25c 99.9% PKM uprights on first floor in front of the players club.

*** MIA - *** $5 MG 10/7 DB bank on the other side of the snack bar.

*** MIA - *** 5c/10c MG/MD NSUD Spin Poker under the escalator.

*** MIA - *** (2) 5c/10c/25c (50 Play) NSUD near the slot booth under the escalator.

All ML 10/7 DB has been downgraded to 9/7. Some SL 10/7 DB remains. A bank of SL MG the other side of the snack bar has been upgraded to $5 10/7 DB. All of the ML8/5 SA and 9/6 JoB have also been downgraded.

Some of the multi-line 10/7 DB has been downgraded.

I just returned from Reno. I played nickel ten coins full pay double bonus video poker at Cal Neva on the first floor in the rear of the Virginia Street entrance right by the alley. There are six MG machines. The double bonus 10/7 game has 4 progressive payouts: Aces,2s 3s 4s with 2 3 or 4,5 through K, and Royal. Very exciting to play. The are lots of full pay video poker machines all over this casino.

Cal-Neva has FPDB, SA, JB and other games in 3 and 5 play up to $s. The environment isn't the greatest but the pay tables make up for it.

It's reported on bj21.com that the 10/7 DB on the 50/100 plays has been shorted to 9/6 and the 8/5 super aces to 6/5.

The Coupon Craze promotion at the Cal Neva - one of my favorite, fun, low roller plays over the past six months or so - has been downgraded again just this week. 1. The quad bonus coupon that paid a nice bonus for any quad has been downgraded to a one time Card of the Day bonus that pays a flat $10 for only the card of the day, one use only. It's hardly worth playing now, unless you happen to be there anyway. 2. The $1.99 Big Win breakfast deal is now just a $1 off coupon (making it a $2.99 Big Win breakfast). 3. The former $4.99 steak dinner is now just a $1 off any Top Deck dinner (or $2 off a Copper Ledge dinner) coupon. The coupon sheet still has the $5 match play, 5 free keno games and a couple of other items. It's still worth picking up if you happen to be down there playing anyway, but it's no longer worth a special trip to pick up and play.