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Bonus Poker That's Not

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I have seen this game labeled both bonus and jacks or better and it appears under both on vpFae's list of games used to maintain the databases.

Not only do you need to notice wheteher this is 6-5, 7-5 or 8-5 but the quads can be 25 (normal jacks or better), 30 or 35 ("bonus poker"). All nine of those combinations exist and I have seen all of them. If the quads are 35 it is about 1/2% better than normal bonus poker. If the quads pay 30 (The game you saw.) it is about 2/3% worse. Full pay is 8-5-35 at about 99.66%.

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-----Original Message-----

From: Jason Pawloski <jpawloski@gmail.com>
Sent: Nov 12, 2008 12:03 AM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] Bonus Poker That's Not

Just thought I'd through this out there as a warning.

I went to a bar over the weekend which had IGT bartop machines. I went with
friends and I was playing video poker to pass the time away. I knew it was
going to be bad walking into the place. I searched for JoB and saw they
didn't have it, and so I settled for Bonus Poker. I fully expected to be
playing 6/5 Bonus Poker.

Well, it was 6/5 Bonus sure enough. I'm not a pro or a serious player and,
like I said, and I was stuck at the bar because that's where my friends
were.

Well I'm playing and playing and I hit quad queens. But then I noticed
something strange - it paid 150 coins. I looked at the paytable, and the 6/5
Bonus Poker table was actually worse than 6/5 Bonus Poker - ALL of the quads
paid 30 per coin! 2s, 3s, 4s, and aces, all paid 150 on max bet instead of
the customary bonus amount!

I'm no VP expert but I haven't seen anything like this so I thought I'd just
share. I don't know if similar pay tables exist for 7/5 BP or 8/5 BP but
it's worth remembering to check the other numbers as well, I guess.

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#2

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Howard W. Stern" <howard.w.stern@...>
wrote:

I have seen this game labeled both bonus and jacks or better and it

appears under both on vpFae's list of games used to maintain the
databases.

Not only do you need to notice wheteher this is 6-5, 7-5 or 8-5 but

the quads can be 25 (normal jacks or better), 30 or 35 ("bonus
poker").
All nine of those combinations exist and I have seen all of them. If
the quads are 35 it is about 1/2% better than normal bonus poker. If
the quads pay 30 (The game you saw.) it is about 2/3% worse. Full pay
is 8-5-35 at about 99.66%.

It's almost like buying a can of Pepsi, only to be surprised when you
take a sip to discover it's Seven Up.

Many of us "gravitate" to a colorful glass top saying "BONUS POKER"
that we've seen for years. But then, in glancing at the "fine print"
we see no bonus at all for A's or 2's-4's, a payout for 1 for 2 pair,
or some other abomination.

Sneaky, aren't they?

So, especially in this economy, know what you are playing.

I would also like to offer a word of caution for something many of
you have already noticed. Paytables no longer automatically improve
as you increase denomination. This is contrary to what logic would
dictate. But be aware if you are playing 25c and change to 50c or $1
you may be transitioning to poorer payouts. So, as you change
denominations, always recheck the paytable.