horseshoe casino and bedbugs in baltimore

First, the rooms show their age with stained carpet and furniture, and loose tiles in bath(room 1518).

Last weekend's visit was quite a step down for the once regal hotel/casino. But based on VP, I guess we'll keep going to Vegas, AC, Winstar World (Thackerville OK).The Horseshoe has not come through the pandemic well. We had to go there and had no trouble reaching the Horseshoe coming in 295 from the south, which turns into Russell St. That of course is speculation, whereas the VP pay schedules are very well documented and factual. And there are experts who claim that a casino with decent VP pay schedules will have decent slot returns as well. The nice thing about video poker is that the pay schedules are imbedded right on the screen and you can look up the schedule to find the long term percent payback and compare among machines or casinos. You can find better quarter DDB VP at Ocean Downs, though not much of it. I was surprised that only a couple of the numerous bars had VP machines imbedded in the bar. I had high hopes for a Caesar's property, one of the major casino brands in the country, but the pay schedules and VP inventory are a major disappointment. MD Live has 7/5 DDB at the quarter level - you've got to be desperate to play a game stacked that much against you. Neither the Horseshoe or MD Live offer decent VP pay schedules or variety of games.

And if you want to play Triple Double Bonus, you better bring a load of money because the game's only available at the $1 and up level and then it's a 9/5 pay schedule (97.1% game). The DB quarter pay schedule is abysmal at 9/6/4 or 96.38%. While 9/5 DDB at the $1 level returns 97.88% long term, the 8/5 pay schedule at 96.8% will kill your bankroll quickly. Many of the multi-denom DDB pay schedules were 8/5 quarter, 8/5 50c and 9/5 $1. Most of the multi-game IGT machines include JOB, dueces wild, Double Bonus (DB) and Double Double Bonus (DDB). There are about three quarter progressive banks of maybe 4 machines at the quarter level.

The only multi-denom quarter, 50c and $1 VP machines are on the lower level in the far right corner, where you'll find about 50 machines including multi-hand (typically triple and five play) and more $1 and up machines. Of the approximately 150 VP machines (Horseshoe number, not mine), there are NO VP machines on the second floor offering less than $1 games. First, about one half of the VP machines are $1 and up. Because it was very early in the day, we were able to review pay schedules in most all of the machines. Unfortunately, we were unimpressed with the pay schedules and general lack of VP machines on the floor. My wife and I just returned from our first visit to the Horseshoe Baltimore.

Horseshoe casino and bedbugs in baltimore