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[dewey089]

The quarter video poker at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun is pretty weak. However, on a trip there this last week (see trip report http://forum.americancasinoguide.com...hegan-sun.html) I just wanted to play something besides the live poker. Just outside the poker room at Mohegan was a 9-5 DDB. 97.87%.
I generally play a certain bankroll and quit when that is lost if losing.
If winning, I set an amount for quitting with profit and reset it if I hit big.
So, since I have to play a negative expectation game, I calculate that the volatility in any session of play (with my parameters of win/loss stop points) will actually reduce the number of times that I am short paid on the full house or flush, unlike a grinding machine where I am up and down a little bit for a longer time. And actually, many folks who play in Vegas are satisfied with this pay table and most don't get to a 10/6 but see 9/6 as the standard choice.
They are supposed to have a 10/6 at Eastside Cannery near Marilyn's coming in just under 100% and one over 100% at Sam's Town near the arcade. One other payout must be different to make the difference, but I don't know what it is. I'll check next trip if they are still there and I can find them.
I actually played an 8-5 DDB at Foxwoods, but that is a really dumb play. I did not get short paid much, however, as I lost very quickly.
The 9-5 at Mohegan Sun seemed a better deal in short play choices.
I did hit three quads, one of them 4-4-4-4 and so I made $50, coming from $70 behind.

I was still dumb because I started playing while waiting for a poker seat and missed the call for a new game, missed my seat, and had to get back on the seating list and it took a long while.

What I miss most are those 10/7 DB machines with the progressive royals at the Four Queens in Vegas. Those are my favorites because I really have the strategy down. I make mistakes on the DDB, but for a bit of variety a few times a year, I'll play the short pay machines. I can't always get to Vegas.

[scrappy]

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The quarter video poker at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun is pretty weak. However, on a trip there this last week (see trip report http://forum.americancasinoguide.com...hegan-sun.html) I just wanted to play something besides the live poker. Just outside the poker room at Mohegan was a 9-5 DDB. 97.87%.
I generally play a certain bankroll and quit when that is lost if losing.
If winning, I set an amount for quitting with profit and reset it if I hit big.
So, since I have to play a negative expectation game, I calculate that the volatility in any session of play (with my parameters of win/loss stop points) will actually reduce the number of times that I am short paid on the full house or flush, unlike a grinding machine where I am up and down a little bit for a longer time. And actually, many folks who play in Vegas are satisfied with this pay table and most don't get to a 10/6 but see 9/6 as the standard choice.
They are supposed to have a 10/6 at Eastside Cannery near Marilyn's coming in just under 100% and one over 100% at Sam's Town near the arcade. One other payout must be different to make the difference, but I don't know what it is. I'll check next trip if they are still there and I can find them.
I actually played an 8-5 DDB at Foxwoods, but that is a really dumb play. I did not get short paid much, however, as I lost very quickly.
The 9-5 at Mohegan Sun seemed a better deal in short play choices.
I did hit three quads, one of them 4-4-4-4 and so I made $50, coming from $70 behind.

I was still dumb because I started playing while waiting for a poker seat and missed the call for a new game, missed my seat, and had to get back on the seating list and it took a long while.

What I miss most are those 10/7 DB machines with the progressive royals at the Four Queens in Vegas. Those are my favorites because I really have the strategy down. I make mistakes on the DDB, but for a bit of variety a few times a year, I'll play the short pay machines. I can't always get to Vegas.

the 10/6 DDB at sams town that used to be near the arcade are gone, or moved somewhere that I could not find them. All boyd V.P. is slowly going bad little by little. There is very, very little good V.P. in connecticut. There are some .25 job, and 8/5 bonus at mohegan but they do not reward any points on them or anything they consider full pay.

[dewey089]

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Yeah. Connecticutt is just a fallback for me. I would not play much VP there. I don't think I was getting any points on the 9-5 DDB either. But then I don't really do much with points as I might get to Mohegan a couple times a year. Where exactly are those 8-5 bonus poker machines at Mohegan located?

I did hear that Sam's Town was cutting back on VP. Eastside Cannery is supposed to have a couple full pay. I hope they are still there when I arrive. My buddy found 10-7 DB still at Sam's Town in January and also at Eastside Cannery although he did not find the JOB 9-6-90 at EC, a very rare game in Vegas. I'll look more carefully than he does when I go again.

I put most of my real bankroll into 10/7 DB at Four Queens, but I had been playing a good bit of full pay Deuces at Sam's Town my last trip and I get some free nights from that. Nothing spectacular. I get weekends on my play at the Orleans and that is basically the 9/7DB in triple play nickles with progressives. On Senior day that is a good play as points are multiplied and food is cheap.

However, it is tough to beat those Four Queens deals. They will put me up for a three night weekend, give me some freeplay, and often have a deal on food just for playing the best 10/7 DB in the world. And cashback is part of the deal as well. Then one day a year they just hand me $12.50 in cashback when they double my 500 points with the American Casino Guide coupon. It does not seem to dawn on folks just what a deal that is. It pays or the book and any other coupon pays for the shipping. My VP playing poker buddy uses his coupon too.
On my last trip that bank of machines did something that never happened to me before. It dealt me a royal. Odds are 1 out of 649,740. And while in general in VP royals come mathematically every 40,000, this number goes up to every In 10/7/80 Double Bonus the math is every 46,727 hands.
If the Four Queens was the only casino in Vegas, I'd still make the trip there. However, were they without intense competition I suppose it would be like Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, huge casinos with nothing worth playing.


That is my favorite casino, and because they have that basic deal, I'll play any slots there too that I might like to play just for fun. And I've brought in a few buddies who play table games all day there. Still, they don't report doing so well in spite of having great gambling. Always they seem on the verge of trouble with rumors of shutting Binions. Perhaps this new surge in the economy, and especially the surge in downtown will give them a needed boost. Shows have changed there too since I was last there. That might help some. There really is not a successful comedy club downtown, so that might be a draw.