Believe it or not, after playing VP now for oh a year or two years using the slot dollars they give me, I'm still up by a fairly significant amount statistically speaking. Most of the action though has been done at the .50 level as it wasn't until recently that the majority of machines with 99.5% payouts or better went to $1 or worse payouts. In that time, I've gotten one Royal, one straight flush and average one 4 of a kind for every two trips or so. My advice to you is to get off at the Hilton where they will give you $30 instead of $25 and are offering a free buffet promo right now or at least they were last week.