If great odds are all you are looking for, fly to Vegas and play at South Point or Red Rock where they have full pay games. If you use game odds as your only criteria for visiting a casino, you are missing out on some nice experiences. I don't think the odds are worth the risk of playing bigger than quarters. The VP odds in Cherokee are better at higher denominations, but still negative. It's in a beautiful part of the mountains and worth a visit. I am ahead of them at the moment and I want to keep it that way.Ĭherokee is a nice casino. I never play VP in Murphy for longer than two hours. The best way to play negative VP games is to play them slow, small and run out with your wins. I suspect they have plans to expand it in the future. Murphy looks like a big metal warehouse with no atmosphere. Murphy is close to our summer home in the mountains, so we play there once in a while. Most of their players are driving up from Atlanta for a day of fun and could care less about odds. They reduced them a few years back and now they are just average. I have no personal experience that would indicate these casinos are cheating their players.Ĭherokee used to have better odds than most east coast casinos. I believe the VP games in Cherokee and Murphy are fair. If 'fair' means random, I have never seen any video poker machine that I believed was rigged.

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