Casinos along Mexican Riviera?

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When you load money into your card there is a 8% tax right away. Then they tax whatever you win about 10% also if you do win. There is still advantage play opportunities even considering all that.
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Puerto Vallarta update:
Load $ fees onto player card is 4.4% (casino Life) and 5% (Winclub).
1.5 miles apart so no idea why different fee %.

There were locals checking the machines at Winclub when I was there.

Did not goto the casino in the mall
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Do they charge a fee to cash out?
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Only if you won. The original money you put in won't get taxed. So let say load 2000MXN, so you will have around 1850 on your card to play. you win 1000, you go to cash out 2850. You will get taxed 10% of 1000, you will get back 2750MXN

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Do they charge a fee to cash out?
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Casino Codere (Mazatlan):

No loading fee.
Loaded 500, lost 50 overall then added 500 for $950 because I saw a play at $7/spin.

Went all the way down to like $20 then a wave of wins.
Cashed out 1800 so tax on 850 profit, right? Nope.

They had my initial balance at $810 so 990 profit.
Taxed 163 so 16.5% tax. :(

No idea how they came up with 810 unless I went down to 310 in my initial buy-in before going up to 450.
But I don't think I dropped below 400.

Sidenote:
There's a casino codere in Cabo. I left $ on that card.
The card for codere Mazatlan looks exactly the same.
I put in the codere Cabo card hoping to avoid a load fee (which I later find out there isn't any).
It read $0.

I loaded $ into the codere Maz card and it read 500 on the slot screen.
Maybe I have the same account # like Caesar's casinos for multiple locations especially since I used the same passport?
so I put in the codere Cabo card thinking it'll also have 500. Nope, read $0.

So I'm going to assume I could have loaded $ onto the codere Cabo card and it'll segregate the amounts by city?
Thus I don't need to keep 2 separate cards?

if you leave money on the cards longer than 15-30 days depending on the casino they take it. i do this too to evade some taxes but i always make sure to visit at least once every 10 days. I believe the cards are always location specific.

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if you leave money on the cards longer than 15-30 days depending on the casino they take it. i do this too to evade some taxes but i always make sure to visit at least once every 10 days. I believe the cards are always location specific.
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Are these "smart cards" with chip contacts, or mag-stripe cards?

Where I play (Riviera Maya) they are mag strip.

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Where I play (Riviera Maya) they are mag strip.
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Where I play (Riviera Maya) they are mag strip.
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When I started they were Hollerith

Col 5 tiles removed.
I lost $ removing the other 16.
Bad variance or not a play?

I always play thoses. In fact usually i do better with thoses 16 than 2 on the 5th column

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Casino in mall:

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Puerto Vallarta: Casino at the mall changed it's name from Crown casino to Casino Central


But google maps still has it listed as Crown casino.

Load fees 4.4% (Same as Casino Life)


Don't understand what this "Deposit Other' means?

This casino is clean, bright, and a mix of must hits, old playable games, and fruit games.

Found a few of these at high denom (.25 cents) at bet levels between $50/spin to $150/spin.



Had bad variance. Lost $ on each of these plays.
Put in $4k. Cashed out $400. :(