With the resets those machines have been pruned quite a bit, although it’s not just IGT machines that have been targeted.

Their gaming floor started very IGT heavy, featuring a very large amount of persistent state games as reviewed here on the site. For the most part these came in the form of three reel machines, but there are some video slots like Diamond Queen that also found a place on the floor as a result. They’ve been aggressively updating their slot floor, good to see given the age of the property, and they are rolling in new games as they come out.Īlthough the floor is pretty broadly leaning towards new games, as would be the expectation for a new slot floor, in a savvy move by MGM they brought in a small, but meaningful amount of old hardware, which allowed them to feature some older, but popular, games, to balance things out a bit. There was a lot of repetition of games at the beginning, which has slowly been unwound as new games and machine types have come out. Unfortunately the video poker is set to MGM corporate standards, meaning pretty poor pay tables such as 7/5 Jacks or Better at quarter denomination (compared to 8/5 or 9/6, depending on whether you want comps or not, at Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods).

They had too few video poker machines in the original incarnation, and at this point they have a larger video poker section in one corner of the casino, along with a few other machines elsewhere. That’s shorthand for less games on the floor, but in the process they’ve been righting some wrongs. Over the past 18 months, a slow and steady overhaul of various sections of the slot floor has been occurring, with changes to reduce the gaming density.

When the casino first opened, it was densely packed, mostly with new slot machines and table games. In today’s article, I’ll share my thoughts about the property. MGM Springfield opened first, and is about as close to me as Foxwoods is, so I’ve paid a number of visits to the property since it’s opening. Starting with a slot parlor at Plainridge Park, two more casinos have come online since: MGM Springfield, which is part of the MGM Rewards program, and the Encore Boston Harbor, which is linked to the Wynn/Encore properties in Las Vegas. A few years ago, Massachusetts was among the latest states to rev up its gaming options.

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