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Castaways royal promo in Sept..

#1

I posted this on SHG. TomSki

I haven't kept up much on video poker lately but noticed there was a
promo at Castaways in Sept based on how many cards you held to hit a
royal. Bob Dancer wrote about it in his column:
http://www.casinogaming.com/columnists/dancer/082702.html

If you were dealt a royal you got a 500 coin bonus, if drawing 5 to a
royal and you made it, you also got 500 coins, 400 for holding 1 and
making it, 300 for holding 2 and making it, 200 for holding 3 and
making it, and 100 for holding 4 and making it.

To find the value of this bonus we need to know how many times you
hold 4 to a royal, 3 to a royal etc. I wrote my own software years
ago, and it includes this info. For example, there are 21,576 times
you hold 3 to a royal correctly in 10-7 DB. You can then compute the
EV of the bonus for this as 1/1081 * 200 * 21576. Doing this for all
combination, then dividing by the 54.01 total royals made brings the
average bonus to 207.77 coins, or about 0.086%. Good luck. TomSki

#2

So are you saying Dancer's estimate of adding .20 is wrong?
Scot

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I posted this on SHG. TomSki

I haven't kept up much on video poker lately but noticed there was a
promo at Castaways in Sept based on how many cards you held to hit a
royal. Bob Dancer wrote about it in his column:
http://www.casinogaming.com/columnists/dancer/082702.html

If you were dealt a royal you got a 500 coin bonus, if drawing 5 to a
royal and you made it, you also got 500 coins, 400 for holding 1 and
making it, 300 for holding 2 and making it, 200 for holding 3 and
making it, and 100 for holding 4 and making it.

To find the value of this bonus we need to know how many times you
hold 4 to a royal, 3 to a royal etc. I wrote my own software years
ago, and it includes this info. For example, there are 21,576 times
you hold 3 to a royal correctly in 10-7 DB. You can then compute the
EV of the bonus for this as 1/1081 * 200 * 21576. Doing this for all
combination, then dividing by the 54.01 total royals made brings the
average bonus to 207.77 coins, or about 0.086%. Good luck. TomSki

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#3

Can anyone tell me exactly where to find the only FPDW machine at the El Cortez?
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#4

Can anyone tell me exactly where to find the only FPDW machine
at the El Cortez?
   
  I think it is a bartop machine. The bar is the one fairly
near the place where there are about 3 steps down to a sunken
area that holds the snack bar.

    QZ

#5

I think QZ is correct.

But it's not a very good machine. It does take bills, but it is
painfully slow.

Dancali

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> Can anyone tell me exactly where to find the only FPDW machine
> at the El Cortez?
   
  I think it is a bartop machine. The bar is the one fairly
near the place where there are about 3 steps down to a sunken
area that holds the snack bar.

    QZ

#6

Can anyone tell me exactly where to find the only FPDW machine at the El Cortez?<<

The ONLY fpdw machine at El Cortez? Why it doesn't matter:

3. No RF in 287,000 hands, but it pays full on a boat.

2. Typical customer sits down, looks for a slot handle.

And the number one reason it doesn't matter....

     It's the El Cortez, fer cryin out loud!

lb

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#7

--- In vpFREE@y..., "Scot Krause" <krauseinvegas@w...> wrote:

So are you saying Dancer's estimate of adding .20 is wrong?
Scot

Dancer's estimate of adding 0.20% was incorrect. The actual number
was to add 0.086%. Bob had estimated the bonus to be over 300 coins
when it was only 207. But even at 300 coins it would have added only
0.12%. (300*54.01/(2598960*5)= 0.12%) It would have to average 481
coins to add 0.20%. So I don't know how Bob got to that number. TomSki