Okay you video poker geeks, how about this one?

zuluking · #1 09-19-2007, 07:44 PM

Local Indian casino has a ton-o .25 jacks or better machines with ONE out of the whole bunch a 9/6. With your club card inserted, you get 1 point for every $10, or 8 plays, on the machine. For every 100 points, you get $5 back. On Sunday, they double the points. So you get 1 point for every $5, or 4 plays, on the machine.

I'm probably wrong, but the first senario gives me about even money, and the second senario gives me about .05% +EV. Is this right?

My other question is: Should I really give a [censored]? Or should I stick with the pohka?

p.s. Video poker is fun when drunk though.

pzhon · #2 09-19-2007, 08:21 PM

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My other question is: Should I really give a [censored]? Or should I stick with the pohka?

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It's up to you. How do you feel about making $3/hour?

The comps are worth 0.5%, and 1% on Sunday. The house advantage of 9/6 JoB is about a half percent if you play well, so you can turn that around, and make less than a penny per play on Sunday. That's better than losing money, but not better than winning real money playing poker.

SheetWise · #3 09-20-2007, 01:12 AM

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... with ONE out of the whole bunch a 9/6 ...

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Pzhon is right on the money. There's a whole "ton" of these machines -- but only one employing a 24/7 shill who's making $3 an hour [maybe](without benefits).

Why wouldn't they put one 9/6 machine in?

Abdullaev · #4 09-22-2007, 05:01 AM

Sounds like you'll make enough money to pay for your lunch but not for the gas to get there.

SamIAm · #5 09-23-2007, 11:24 PM

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Sounds like you'll make enough money to pay for your lunch but not for the gas to get there.

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Before taxes...

Nonononono · #6 09-23-2007, 11:27 PM

1% cash is not bad at all, but 25-cent single line JOB is too small to add up to anything interesting. Multi-line games such as triple or 5-play would come in handy here.

Does the casino ever offer anything better than double points? If I'm thinking of the same place, I'm pretty sure I noticed a 4x points offer posted to the web site for the July 4th holiday a little while back.

I don't know about your bankroll considerations, but at 4x points, you can more safely move up in denomination, or play multi-line quarters even if the pay tables are only in the 99% range.

zuluking · #7 09-24-2007, 10:25 AM

This is Cypress Bayou Casino/Shorty's. Of all the machines in the joint, they have just that one 9/6, and its a quarter machine.

Sometimes if they games haven't 'juiced up' yet in the poker room, I'll sit at this machine at kill some time. So I was just wondering about the odds, thats all.

Eihli · #8 09-24-2007, 12:23 PM

how are the games there? what limits do they spread?

zuluking · #9 09-25-2007, 10:00 AM

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how are the games there? what limits do they spread?

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3-6-12 limit and 5/5 NL.

The 3-6-12 plays like your typical LLHE game. The 5/5 NL game playes like a 1/2 game on the weekends and a 2/5 game the rest of the time. In other words, yummy.