Video Poker Pro, Bob Dancer's Las Vegas Adviser blog is now behind a paywall. His article dated 18 Feb 2025 was called Change In Point Structure. It's about the recent change made at the ROW in Reno. Because of copyright concerns I don't think I can publish the article here. So I'll just give a few notes on his article:

1. The ROW in Reno, owned by CZR, has changed it's point structure from $10 per TC to $20 per TC.

2. They had made a similar change a few years ago, business dropped so they nixed the changes.

3. Dancer still plays to 7 Stars level. It's the package of benefits he likes, game, slot club, promotions, mailers. The benefits of 7 Stars that Dancer likes are:

A. 5 $100 food credits
B. $1200 travel to any Caesar's property
C. $500 resort credit
D. Highly discounted 7 day cruise for 2 on Norwegian
E. Each property has a daily benefit for 7 Stars players
F. Monthly mailers for free play, resort credits, and rooms

Note: Having followed Dancer for 25 years through his blogs I know that he plays NSUD, 99.73%, flawlessly. He's been playing this game at the ROW and also at Harrah's Cherokee for several years now to maintain 7 Stars status.

Another note: Dancer is a cruise junkie. IIRC, he's reported that he's been on over 60 cruises in the past 30 years. I did 4 interviews on his podcast, Gambling With An Edge, over the years. He became quite interested in advantage slot play. A few years ago his articles started carrying content on his advantage slot play on the Strip.

He doesn't play video poker on the cruises, the payscales are to bad, but some of his blogs have content on playing advantage slots at sea. Part of his day on each cruise is making laps around the advantage slots in the casino.

The advantage slots are a source of income that he didn't have until a few years ago.