What can I say? As long as I keep having winning trips, I'll keep going back!
I made 3K this weekend and 1K last. Even though their uprights are painful, they sometimes dump the quads!
This weekend's trip was a roller coaster, as VP often is. It's the first time I've played mostly at the 2-dollar level (10 coins on the dollar 9-6 DDB machines).
I started at the 50-cent level and got a heart royal within the first 90 minutes of play. I upped it to dollars, got some quads, then decided what the heck? Why not up it to $10 a hand? And after maybe an hour I got dealt four aces and managed to draw the 4 for a nice 4K payout. (See photos on jackpot photo pages.)
And then 3 hours later got the four aces w/kicker again for another 4K payout. In 12 hours of play in session one, I was up $6,100. Considering I had 18K in W2-G jackpots (5 1,600 jackpots for other bonus quads), it seemed like I should have been up a lot more!
Session two started well and at one point, after 3 more $1,600 jackpots, I was up about 9,000 for the trip (22K in W2-G's). Not bad considering my starting bankroll was $1,250. But then came the inevitable slide: in eight hours I gave back $6,000 because of a complete lack of any bonus quad or royal jackpots. I still went home up 3,000, but with 22K in IRS jackpots, it just seems like it should have been more.
Looking at that 8-hour streak:
- If I play 800 hands/hour, that means I'm doing 8K per hour coin in at $2 level.
- So in 8 hours, that's 64K in coin in.
- So with 6K in losses, that means my EV was 90.6% on a 98.98% game.
- Just for fun I just removed the EV for the bonus quad hands of Aces and above, and the return comes out to about 89.5! So pretty much as would be expected in that kind of drought.
A 6K loss in 8 hours of $2 play is akin to:
- 3K loss in dollars.
- 1,500 loss in 50 cents.
- 750 loss in quarters.
So in the end, even though 6K in 8 hours seems harsh, it's probably not that an uncommon a bad streak ...
Next up: Will they send me any offers in the mail?