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.
