Technically, maintenance of Black Label after the first year requires that $1000 in comps be earned from play. If one sticks strictly to the most advantageous games -- pretty much defined as 9/6 Jacks, but it's possible that it's also true of 8/5 BP or 9/7 DB (or plays anything on multigames with qualifying games on them), the comp rate is currently .33%. Thus, it'll take $300K of annual play to meet that requirement ... a stringent threshold for a relatively casual quarter or halve player. However, there are reports of players being extended (for at least the second year) on as little as $400 earned comp dollars. There are also reports that Borgata will extend simply by presenting a renewed premium card from another casino (or a dated letter documenting access to a premium players lounge in some cases where premium cards aren't issued). Given that other casinos (including Harrah's) extend premium status on a fraction of the Borgata 9/6 Jacks requirement, I've expected the ranks of Black Label players to swell. However, if anything, the lines have become shorter now that they're moving into their 3rd year of operation. Borgata play economics and appeal are such that many of the more active AC players either find other more advantageous plays elsewhere (particularly as Borgata cb/comps have thinned with time) or are simply put off by Borgata's relatively "snooty" atmosphere, preferring more down to earth digs. I consider Black Label indispensable and the place intolerable without it. Black label lines at check-in, the players card desk, and the casual restaurants (coffee shop and buffet) are a fraction of the standard lines. At peak hours it's not unusual for the standard lines to entail a 20 to 30 min. wait. The Black Label lines rarely require more than 5 min. and at all but the very peak of times it's not uncommon to simply walk up and be served (providing all the vain ego boost of sauntering past the long buffet lines at Bellagio with a line pass. Black Level Perks - Free parking, a big one in and of itself. - Primary seating at ALL the casual restaurants. Since the lines can get quite long, this is nothing to scoff at. - Special lines for hotel check-in and the My Borgata club center. Did you ever look at the line of people waiting to check in on a busy night? You can bypass that with a Black Label card. - More mail offers than you know what to do with. I get an offer for free rooms, Sunday through Friday, twice a week. EVERY WEEK, if I want it, which I don't because I'm a local. - Mail offers for free slot play on a given day, free comp dollars (becoming rare), entries into drawings and slot tournaments. (They're a zoo. I usually don't even bother. The line to do last Friday's slot tourney was an hour and a half. With 22 prizes, I said f--- it, and hit the casino.) - Offers for multiple "cashback," actually free slot play. It's been 4X every day in February and March, now it's 3X for April. Every day in the time period. My free slot play bucks are adding up quickly. - Access to the Amphora Lounge. They take $10 off your comp account and you get a nice buffet and open bar. My 24-year-old nephew loved the latter when I took him there. - If you don't want the booze, you can get a yummy buffet for 10 comp dollars. It's actually food you want to eat, not just to fill your stomach. - Getting treated like a friggin' king or queen.

The $1   9/6 JoB PROG are MIA.

Borgata has 12 full pay 25c AA near the Amphora Lounge and 5 near the box office.

All of the AA are reported as MIA.

Borgata has $2 and $5 9/6 on multi-denomination games. They might even have some $10 and $25 but I cannot confirm that right now.

I was at the Borgata on January 27th. The only 9/6DDB VP machines I located were Multi-Strikes. The B-bar no longer has DDB. The one's scattered around the casino were shorted to 9/5. And the DDB progressive bank was set to a ridiculously low payout schedule of 7/5 which equals a whopping 95.7120% return with perfect play.

Takes about $24000 coin-in to get a weekend room comp and about $15000 for a weekday comp.

9/6 JOB inventory - There is one bank of six 25c machines near the buffet entrance and then nearby another six 25c machines. (I have not been able to find any other quarter machines other than the B-Bar and a couple of other people have not been able to as well.) As to the $1 machines near the high-limit area, there are three and they are $1/$2. There is also $2 in the high-limit area. Not sure about higher denominations in there since that is my current maximum level. A new addition is two $1/$2 multi-game machines with JOB in front of the main cashier at the end of one of the rows that say "Super Bonus Deuces". There is also two $1/$2 machines near the progressive machine in back of the B-Bar.

Borgata now has (5) Multi-Strike (5 Play) which are located near the regular Multi-Strikes. Very poor paytables.

Borgata seems to be cutting back on comp dollars again which determines when you reach Black Label status which requires $1000 comp dollars earned in a rolling twelve-month period. With the recent cut in comp dollars, Black Label will require well in excess of $300,000 and perhaps $400,000 if they stick with the current comp dollar rate of .25%. Slot dollars seem to be about .15% of coin-in.

(3) of the Multi-Strikes are MIA.

The banks that were located in the non-smoking area are no longer there. There are two new banks which are back to back located in their "video poker" area which is left of the buffet when you exit -- they're a few rows after their spinpoker games and basically adjacent to their triple play joker pokers.

There are (3) $1 & 2 8/5 BP Slant Top MG MD outside high-limit area next to roulette tables.

Some of the $1 9/6 JoB games pay a $1000 bonus for a sequential royal.

The Comps will show up on the player card display when you press the "promo" button. Everyday is a new start (I do not know exactly what time breaks the day, but it is likely 6 AM). Your comp dollars will start to change when you accrue $5 that day. Then it will continue to accrue and you can watch the dollars change. I find it helps to pull and reinsert your card to see the changes. If you do not accrue $5, you will not receive anything. The Cashback or slot dollars are similar in that you have to accrue $5 at the regular CB rate before you get anything, including the 4X. The CB will not show up on the card display until a future visit (I do not know how long, but it is at least 24 hours). It can be viewed on one of the kiosks, however, the day it is earned as "future slot dollars". Again, you will see nothing until you have accumulated $5 at the regular rate. If you are eligible for the 4X, you will all of a sudden see $20 or more as future slot dollars during this promotion. I find that the next day I see the future slot dollars from the previous day until I earn $5 that day. Then my future slot dollars start to grow. There is a relationship between normal slot dollars and comp dollars for each machine. When you know what it is for the machine you are playing, you can predict your future CB from the changing comp dollars. VP varies but I find most of the machines that I play give about two comp dollars for every dollar of regular CB. That means that until I see $10 comp dollars, I probably have no future CB. The relationship varies on different VP games. Some progressives appears to accrue at a lower rate for everything. Slots as always, accrue more rapidly in all areas.