From a contributor: "You seem to earn comp points the same as you did last year, but now it's much harder to earn tier points on video poker, requires (what I was told by a casino host) anywhere from $30 to $60 coin-in depending on the particular video poker game you're playing to earn one tier point."

The 99.81 Double Bonus Deuces Wild at the sportsbook bar are not included in the progressive.

Report from an Atlantis visitor: Was recently no mailed. Hit some big jackpots in high limit but overall was a $24k loser in 2013.

From an Atlantis video poker player: Let's say you have been put on no mail status at both due to your AP play. At Atlantis, you can still earn comps & participate in multi-point days with no penalty which means you can also play up to a premium status, just won't receive any or very few mailers. At Peppermill, due to player-tracking which causes you to earn points at an awfully slow rate, comps & tier points are earned at a glacial rate. I continue to play at Atlantis but not Peppermill for that reason.

Three of the 10-coin, over-100% payback machines have returned. They are against the back wall to the right of the gift shop and they still have the 100% flags above them.

A recent report says that $10 coin-in playing NSUD or $5 playing 8/5 BP yields one comp point. Tier points appear to be earned at one tenth the rate of comp points. For example, earning 100 comp points also yields 10 tier points.

Tier points and comp points accumulate very slowly on the circular bank of six 100% payback machines. Playing the 5c 10-coin games, it could take 24 hours to earn the 20 tier points needed for the free lunch buffet for new sign-ups.

Report from an Atlantis visitor: Atlantis is now watching VP players closely and if they think you are a "skilled player" they will not send you any offers.

My mailed offers have decreased from $300 a month to just $50.
In addition - the earned comp rate on the machines I play have been greatly reduced in just the last month:

100 Play Slant-top in HL Room
7/13: $100CI = 34pts = .34% earned comps
8/19: $1000CI = 85pts = .085% earned comps

3L $2 Progressive Slant-top FP TDB in HL
7/14: $25CI = 16pts = .64% earned comps
8/19: $20CI = 3pts = .15% earned comps

My guess is that all/most of the vp has suffered the same downgrades.

Report from a vpFREE2 User: In March of 2012, the Atlantis casino in Reno reneged on its offer to us to allow us to redeem slot club points for cash to cover our airfare. We had done this a couple of times and after discussing it with host John Weinreich we had things in place for this trip. Using slot club points to cover airfare makes it totally worthwhile for us to get to a place like Reno. When we were checking out and ready to get our cash for points, there was some mumbo-jumbo about whether the points we were redeeming we accumulated on that trip or previously. Anyhow, it was clear, they told us we could redeem points for cash to cover our airfare, and when we were checking out told us we could not do that.

The 100-play NSUD in the "cave tunnel" have been downgraded.

A vpFREE2 user reports some observations concerning Atlantis Players Club: Played on a 3x day single line quarters fpdb/NSUD: 10 machine prog near gift shop paid .03 for $10 coin-in in comps. 5 machine prog near Waterfall Bar paid .06 for $10 coin-in. All bars with NSUD paid .09 for $10 coin-in in comps. Card level point requirement is at least $100 per point. Do not know the exact amount required.

I just played there Monday on the $1 10/7 DB Prog at the bar. On a double points day, I was earning two points per $5 hand. So that tells me that those machines are $5/point normally. This is my favorite VP play anywhere because it is bartop and super-fast to play.

A recent report stated that many of the multigame machines have been downgraded. Also that it now takes $8 to $12 to earn one point on video poker.

If you are playing on a multipoint day do not assume you are getting 2X, 3X or 4X points. Even if you swipe your card you may not get the multipoints. The machine you are playing must say 2X, 3X, or 4X if it doesn't, don't play it.