Nice Job Stevie:
I went there Saturday early AM to take advantage of the double
points and free play for a couple of hours before heading over to
Mohegan to play Pick'Em.
I've been playing Double Joker's Wild (JWD) for a couple of years
now. I practiced for a very long time on Frugal Software before
playing for real. It is an easy game to play but NOT an easy game to
master, since high cards don't matter unlike Jacks or Better. So
those expert at JoB won't find that strategy very portable to this
game. And there is a different strategy even within this game for
hands with 0 Jokers, hands with 1 Joker, and hands with 2 Jokers.
Also at least some of the more significant penalty card situations
should be considered to get close to long-term breakeven results. So
the casual player won't really be playing a 99.97% long-term payback
game.
So for the uninitiated, don't think you can walk in and expect the
most likely scenerio to be you more than likely cannot lose.
They're much better off learning and playing a much easier game to
learn such as Pick'Em with little complexity, very few tricky hands,
and no penalty cards to deal with.
Some things to consider with JWD, briefly, the strategy changes
depending on the number of jokers you are dealt (if any). With no
Joker's, you would keep a hand as low as a two card straight flush
even with one gap, starting with 3-J.
With 1 Joker the proper hold becomes extremely complex. As with the
Joker if you have nothing with it (remember high cards don't matter
regarding pairs), you would hold a single card with it, but not hold
a single card that is lower than a 5 or higher than a J. But if you
had a 10 and nothing better you would hold that card with the Joker
first over any other single card and without a 10, a J as a second
choice. Without a single 10 or J, deciding which single card to hold
with the Joker between 5 and 9 becomes a penalty card calculator's
dream and a normal person's nightmare :). I've got it nearly cold
but it took weeks of practice to learn it and remember it so it
would be automatic.
Dueces Wild holds or even Joker's Wild (Single Joker) hold are
somewhat portable but also are different in many cases.
Anyway, it wasn't until I was just about there on Saturday (after a
two hour drive) that I heard on the Radio (WEEI I think), that they
will be offering triple points on the 16th - 22nd.
On Saturady I couldn't get ahead, so kept playing longer than I
planned and after about 4 hours of play the best hand I got was a
wild straight flush: no five of a kind, no wild royal, and no pure
royal. Needless to say, after putting though about $3,000, I ended
up losing about $240. With a 22.1 variance that wasn't that
unexpected, but it was my worst loss ever at this game at the 25
cent level. I won back $200 later at Mohegan at PickEm.
I did get about $40 in comps at Foxwoods or 1.40% with the double
points. And if someone is accurate and fast at this game with the
triple points and a comp rate of 2.10%, it sounds like a worthwhile
play. I think it would be possible to get half back or 1.05% in cash
instead of the comps. So if you play perfectly you'd have a 99.97 +
1.05 or about a 101% potential cash payback (with no comps).
Of course you might have to play on the weekday between 1:00 AM and
7:00 AM to get one of the five machines and after the first day
Foxwoods may unplug them until 3x points is over :).
ST
--- In vpFREE_NewEngland@yahoogroups.com, "steviemcc1"
<steviemcc1@...> wrote:
OK, I know how much you $1 PKM players love the 'Woods, but for
a .25
player I think there's no better deal. Getting 2.14% on points on
a
near 100% JWD machine begins to rival the better plays at AC and
Vegas. And .25 players usually don't have to worry about
accumulating too many points. (I'll save mine for hopefully the
next
gas card promotion which I used up in 3 months.) Triple points
are
running 24hrs/day for one week from 10/16-10/22 on any
denomination
machine up to $1. This is unlike the older promotions where you
could get double points only during specified hours. If the
dollars
are still $1/$90, then triple points can get you 3.33% back in
Wampum; there may or may not be something ~99%; one might check
the
Sigmas left in Grand Pequot like DB or BP.
The Sigmas by the Subway are up, but most VP is still not set up
yet
for the free slot play tickets. However, once you pick them up,
you
have until June to use them. Double points have been ruunning
24hrs
from 10/3-10/15. I put in a 19hr last Thursday for double points
before they announced the triple play promo. I put in $8000 in
the .25 JWD. After being down $150, I won a $1000 Royal. What's
amazing is I have a cardinal rule against leaving a hot machine.
I
don't leave this machine until I fall back $200 from my highest
point, because one never knows how long a good streak can last.
After 16 consecutive hours of constant play I still could not fall
back $200. My brain was frazzled after 14 hours, and I had to
have
been making several mistakes. But regardless, I could not drop
any
significant amount and I was not hitting any other high hands; I
felt
like I could have hovered around the same balance playing
blindfolded. I could not take it anymore and as I stood up to
leave
for a long break, I hit a Joker Royal for my high of the day.
When I
returned to the machine 2.5 hours later, it was not the same, and
I
finally dropped $200. I went home ahead $700+. Since I had not
played at the 'Woods ~ a year, I wanted to give them one heavy day
to
establish a good average. Now, I wish I did it during triple,
(not
···
double) points.
