There are now 16 slant-top single lines with $NSU. They are on the low level, by mens room facing poker area. These are multigame, multidenom machines, at .25 and .50 the dueces are airport/pnsu, but at $1 they are full nsu. This is a welcome improvement to already a place which ranks as one of the best Harrah's for vp players. They shorted these machines on Jacks to 8/5 at the quarter and 50 cent levels, still 9/6 at the dollar levels, but there are many, many other machines with 9/6 jacks in denominations from .05 to $25.

Horseshoe in Shreveport, in addition to adding many playable games at 99.5%+ is paying cash back on vp at .5% instead of the old .25%. CB is now back to 0.25%. It is a little complicated but here is how it works since they have blended with the Total Rewards system: There are TR tier points and then there are Horseshoe CB points. Say you sit down to play and have 0 Horseshoe points. You put your card in the machine and it says you have 0 points. You begin playing and occasionally the screen will show how many points you have earned and what the countdown is. These points are tier points for TR, not Horseshoe points. Say you finish up with 1000 points = $10,000 coin in just like any other Harrah's. You take your card out and put it in again, the welcome message flashes and then it says you have 2000 points - these are Horseshoe points. Since 200 points = $5, you have now earned $50 instant cash back = .5% of the 10k coin in.You don't earn any rewards points at all on the Harrah's system, fine with me, I'll take the .5% cash. For comps there is a second "back screen" in the system. They don't/won't tell you how much you have available in specific amounts. You have to go and ask for what you want, ie dinner, buffets or whatever, they will then tell you if you have enough. Very gray and undefined. My host told me just come to her and she'll take care of anything big I may want. A good approach is to charge everything to room and have them take it off at checkout - they are pretty generous. I'm not sure if this cash back rate is going to last, but all indications are it will. The printed literature they have says you earn 1 Horseshoe point for $5 coin in and doesn't say slots or video poker, just coin in. The same literature talks about TR tier points and does make a distinction between VP at $10/point and slots at $5/point. This tells me it was intentional.

The Shreveport Horseshoe deal was completed on July 1. The name is not expected to change at this time but it is now a 100% owned Harrahs property.

Horseshoe now has $1 9/6 JoB.