Cherokee Harrah's has made changes to their player's card rewards. For a Diamond card, one still needs 15,000 tier credits and the Aspiration levels 1 and 2 were dropped. Also now for access to the Diamond Lounge, a player must have 25,000 tier credits for year round use of the Lounge. Which is a disappointment because the food in the lounge is terrible, which is why they give it away.

Special note about recently added (16) $5 machines: you have to insert your ticket upside down for it to work

There are 8 new All Star II slant tops outside the high limit room with 7/5 BP and 9/5 DDB at the $1 denomination. Available on 3/5/10 play, STP and SP.

Harrah's Cherokee has only single line video poker machines. There are no multiline machines. No 3 play, 5 play or 10 play, no Spin Poker no Ultimate X, no Super Times Pay, no fifty or hundred play, no multistrike.

Harrah's Cherokee requires two ID's when a jackpot is won. The second ID can be anything from a credit card to a health insurance card to a fishing license but a player must have a second ID with their name on it.

The six $5 single line full pay video poker machines in the high limit room also have $2 and $1 games but these games all have paytables 1% or more less than the $5 games.

The poker room and gift shop at Harrah's Cherokee have moved. Therefore we've updated the location of a number of the machines in the inventory.

Player's Reserve is the new name for high limit area.

Harrah's has expanded their Cherokee casino and doubled the amount of slots. All of the new slots (about 500 new machines) are NOT VP and the VP that was there have been changed for the worse.

MIA - All 8/5 97.30% JoB progressives.

Slot club operates on a "Don't ask, don't tell" basis. The amount of coin-in required to earn
bonus reward credits varies, depending on machine played and whether you win or lose.
Harrah's FAQ

The best machines I have found are located close to the back entrance (away from buffet) to high limit room. There are four right outside the entrance and six or eight in a circle right inside the entrance. Many of dollar games have close to a 98% payback. The best is probably a version of 9/5 DDB that pays 400 for four of a kind (5-k) with an ace kicker. These machines have a $2 (75-45) version of NSUD. At $5 the machines have full pay NSUD and JOB. Right inside the back entrance to casino (on way to hotel) there are about 16 fifty cent 8-5 DDB machines linked together that have fast moving progressives on all four of a kind and the royal. It does not take much for these to become the best play in house.

Here is an update on the machines: 9/6 JOB – (1) $100 slant-top in high-limit Area 8/5 BP – (2) $25 slant-tops in high-limit Area 7/5 BP – (2) $5 slant-tops in high-limit Area 6/5 JOB Progressives - .25 machines scattered throughout the casino- rarely positive (takes $2.00 or 8-coins to reach the progressive level) 7/5 & 8/5 JOB Progressives - .50 and 1.00 machines scattered throughout the casino, both take $4.00 to reach the progressive level (8-coins at .50 and 4-coins at 1.00) Each bank of the progressives had different royal amounts. Be sure to check around. Amazingly, people were playing machines in the same areas with widely different royal amounts. We found one 7/5 JOB with an $8200 progressive. If I calculated that correctly it was just under 100% (remember it only takes $4 and not $5 to qualify for the progressive). My friend and I lost $400 each chasing it over the one night we stayed. We both put on around 1,000 tier- points. These machines are very annoying (and slow), because you have to press "Accept Win" (or "Double-Up") after each win. Found what was listed as 8/5 BP in .25 upright (GameKing I believe), but was not the usual BP. The only difference in BP and JOB on this machine was 150 coins for any four-of-a-kind on BP. People were playing 8/5 JOB instead of BP, which made no sense. The BP didn't have any of the normal four-of-a-kind breakdowns, only an increase to 150. The hotel was very nice and the café breakfast was excellent. We didn't eat anywhere else. The diamond lounge had food after 3:00 on weekdays and we nibbled there. I'm Diamond status and requested a comped room from Dean Haney. His email address is [email protected]. A friend referred him to me. He was great! Came down and met us that evening (he was working 6pm-3am). He even tried to get me a comped room in Vegas during the NCAA basketball final four weekend, when I only had paid room offers.

*** MIA - *** (10) $1 TITO 10/6 DB outside high-limit area.

The $1 9-6 DDB machines have been downgraded to 9-5. They are incorrectly listed as 10-6 DB in Data base. The only 10-6 DB that ever existed were .25 and they are also gone. Everything they put in is worse than what they took out and it was bad enough to start with.

*** MIA - *** (10) 25c TITO 10/6 DB in front of Total Rewards booth.

Harrah's Cherokee has added about 10 machines located outside of high-limit area that are TITO and have $1 DDB (9-6 98.98) on them.