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Reno is morphing again...into
fall...new slots, new systems, new tournaments and games, great
shows...the list just goes on and on and on. Jackpots are going
off like leaves falling off the trees... and that's the kind of
play we all expect and want. I'm feeling real good about gambling
in Reno during the fall months...and I'm hoping everyone else is
feeling that way as well. Fall is the time when the crowds aren't
as great, but the gambling is. I just made the drive over Donner
Pass from Sacramento to Reno, and it sure was a pretty time of year
to do so. CalTrans has been rebuilding much of the eastbound and
westbound lanes, and it looks like they are getting ready to wrap
it up as soon as the snow flies. Like most of Reno, I am hoping
that people will still come over to Reno during the winter months...I
think it is worth driving through a little snow with chains on the
tires to come over the pass and have fun in Reno. I've heard such
mixed reports coming out of Thunder
Valley in Lincoln, California...but none really make me want
to even drop in. Last report from someone on the Reno Gaming Guide's
message board about Thunder Valley was that everyone looked so "serious"
about their play and I'd have rather heard the word "fun"
in there...could it be lacking in fun? Well, just another plus for
Reno if there's no fun found in California!
Over at Gold
Dust West they are converting to ticket technology, in a couple
of phases, plus making sure the bill acceptors will take the new
$20 bill...so if you are used to teams of slot personnel running
all over the place making hand pays, you'll have to get used to
punching the cash out button and taking your ticket to the next
machine. I've heard that the Winner's Corner gas stations are switching
to ticket technology soon, as well as the three little Winner's
Circle casinos. Ticket technology is taking over...even into the
smallest of places. And I'm glad. I really didn't think I would
like it, but have found the benefits are greater than originally
thought. I have more time to play, freedom of movement between machines
without waiting long periods of time for someone to clear my machine
and pay me... and I'm sure regular readers will remember how many
times I've pointed out the health benefits and the benefits of clean
hands and clothes without black streaks. I wore a white blouse the
other day into the casinos...guess what? It was still white when
I left! I made sure I went somewhere that was 99.9% ticket machines,
because I went out to Tamarack
Junction, which is way out on the southern end of Virginia Street.
That is where I go for good food, good coffee, and ticket machines
that often reward me with enough money to make me smile. Coinless
slots are taking over, slowly but surely... Yesterday's headlines
on the front of The Reno Gazette-Journal had news about Harrah's
buying 11,000 coinless slot machines from IGT, which goes down as
one of the largest single orders in the 23-year history of IGT.
I'll be visiting Harrah's more often too... I appreciate the technology
and the benefits.
I'm sure many
people are wondering where oh where is their weekly newsletter,
and for the past 10 days, I've been wondering where oh where is
the mailing list. I'd used a third party server to send them because
I felt that was the easiest place for people to subscribe as well
as the safest place to keep the list. But last week, the list wouldn't
accept my password. I wrote the company about seven times asking
and they didn't answer until Sunday morning...when I received a
terse message telling me that the list was held up because I had
abused their ad policy and it would cost me $50 to retreive it...it
appears that in my effort to shrink the once huge ad at the end
of August that I reduced one line of the ad...the part that said
"lease this web app for less than $5 a month..." wording
that looked like it was geared to me anyway...who else would lease
it? I doubt a stranger would...or could... so I borrowed more money
and paid off the ransom money...subscribers should have their newsletters
flowing once again ... Those who haven't subscribed can do so by
going to THE RENO GAMING
GUIDE and putting your e-mail address in the subscribe box...
just be sure to confirm your subscription when the notice arrives
in your e-mail and you too will get your copies!
Reno is losing
a part of the skyline when the Sundowner
Casino closes in early December and word on the street is that
more are closing as well. I hope not. Reno is a great place to visit...though
the Sundowner was a place I used to visit and one I currently haven't
visited much, I still will miss it. I used to visit the Sundowner
because it had an older, more funky casino with good casino coupons
and great food specials... Reno has changed a lot in the past years,
and I will always have fond memories of places like Harold's Club,
the Nevada Club, Eddie's Fabulous Fifties... now the Sundowner...
I miss the little casino, Mr. C's, that used to adjoin the Sands
along with a Denny's restaurant, too. Ah... those were the days...
but the new things that have come along... the changes from MGM
to Bally's to the Reno
Hilton, the newer properties like the Silver
Legacy, Eldorado,
and even Circus
Circus since it got "attached" to the Silver Legacy...
all the new additions have brightened up the whole town, bringing
along more fine entertainment, great dining choices, and it all
has come together well. I'd like to see someone pick up the Sundowner,
and bring it back, it doesn't seem right to have an empty building...but
I guess only time will tell.
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