Long time casino host Brian Togubat is no longer at Pechanga.

The complete list of 26 Pechanga hosts has been added to vpFREE2.com.

Report from a Pechanga video poker player: Pechanga has 3 scattered banks of Ultimate X. One of them offers 8/6 Bonus Deluxe which has the best return of the options. There is also 8/6 Jacks and 7/5 Bonus, both considered "full-pay" for Ultimate X. I saw these choices at both 50c (3/5/10 play) and $1 level (3/5 play). If you plan to play heavily, choose the 50c 10 play instead of the $1 5 play. That's because even though your total bet and the base game return are the same Ultimate X awards higher multipliers with more hands played.

A side note: these machines are almost occupied during most of the day. Late night through noon play will give you a shot.

Report from a Pechanga video poker player: Pechanga has added 3 $1 SuperStar machines next to the circular bar in High Limit. They feature single-line games which are normally seen as 3 or more lines (ex: STP, Double STP, Dreamcard, etc). However, the best paytables I saw were only on Ultimate X: 8/6 Jacks and 8/6 Bonus Deluxe, which return roughly 99.4%. That's below the full-pay regular 9/6 Jacks and Bonus Deluxe on the bartops. But it does give you the potential of multipliers if that "floats your boat".

To find a host you need to go into the fancy card-playing room which is adjacent to HIGH LIMIT. Inside there is a room on the east side with 2 desks opposite one another where hosts can and do issue discretionary comps called "e-comps" which require no paperwork, just present players card and ID at the restaurant to receive comp value with no earned points deducted.

The 10 uprights near the hi-limilt room have been changed for over a year. All of the full pay games are gone with the exception of 9-6 Jacks or Better. They have integrated this bank into their overall network of VP games spread throughout the casino. So there are a lot of 9-6 JOB games at 25c and up. But the full pay 9-6 BDLX, 9-6 DDB, 8-5 Bonus, and 8-5 $Bonus Aces$ are gone. There are a lot of other weird games like Aces & Deuces and White Hot Aces, but the paytables are lousy.

*** MIA - *** 25c bar-tops with NSUD, 9/6 Bdlx and 9/6 JoB in high-limit room.

*** MIA - (7) $1 9/6 JoB next to Rewards Club. (8) $1 (3/5 Play) 9/6 JoB next to Rewards Club. (7) $5 9/6 JoB next to Rewards Club.

*** MIA - *** 25c/$1 7/5 SA.

*** MIA - *** 25c MG 8/5 BP scattered around casino.