I hope vpFREE members like you will keep monitoring this game as
a "case study".
I fidget a lot when I play vp, I smoke, I drink, and I play musical
chairs trying to find the least lumpy chair with the right height.
With these SL uprights, I ended up playing one-handed, switching
hands every 15 minuetes or so; I found that I ended up playing maybe
30% slower, but can play twice as long since I didn't have
to "assume the position" of the two-handed play on an upright, which
is atrocious to one's posture, neck, and shoulders. May lady luck
smile upon you on your test drive!
Another game worth monitoring is the $FPDW at Harrah*s, someone
posted that they may have been downgraded already.
The Peppermill multistrike 5c-10c-25c FPDW is also worth monitoring.
It didn't occurred to me _before_ I got slaughtered there that if I
didn't want to stomach the huge swings, I can play two levels
instead of all four, and then need only memorize level 3 strategy
and use it on level 1, and use regular strategy on level 2. Free
Ride frequencies differed by 0.45% between level 1 and level 3, but
I suspect the effects on the return and the strategy are minimal.
You'll get a return of 100.76% _without_ strategy adjustments, so
the additional few hundredths of a percent improvement is just
gravy). I think the multistrike countertop platform (like the 6
machines at the Peppermill) offers the fastest and most comfortable
play, far superior than the regular (non-MS) machines. I suspect
that if I play level 1 only, I can probably do quit a bit over 1000
hands per hour; and playing 1000+ hph there returns more than
playing 700 hph on the old (now extinct) upright progressives at the
SL, and with a smaller variance too. Can't wait to test drive this
idea myself, but sadly, my next visit to Reno won't be until late
February.
I look forward to reading your trip report (and I agree with you--
let's post it here at the Reno forum).
L. Wluiki
--- In vpFREE_Reno@yahoogroups.com, "Mark"
<mark_my_words_again@y...> wrote:
Thanks for posting this, what a nice Christmas present from you
and from
Silver. Looks like everyone weighed in on vpfree (me included).
Quadzilla
doesn't post much anymore, but when he does, yeow, look out. He
considers
you a friend, huh?
This COULD be the start of another chapter for VP in Reno, by the
sounds of
it. Looks like $1 Full Pay is the cutoff: at and above which
the pros play, and
keep their secrets.
Another week or so and it might have been me "spilling the
beans". I will be
staying at the Silver next Thurs-Mon and I would have reported the
loss of the
.25 FPDW Progs and the entrance of these Multi-, multi- Game
Kings. I would
have stepped IN IT unknowingly tho', not fully realizing the
implications to
"pros". You obviously knew this would cause a fuss by your follow-
up posting
on vpFree.
Well, I surely hope those 14 machines aren't swamped, I can't
imagine it, I
have only spent perhaps 25 days at the SIlver in the last year,
and no VP
bank has ever been full, even the vaunted .25 FPDW Progs, which
are over
101% payback.
Anyhow, thanks for the heads up, it has at the least given me a
chance to
rework my "game-plan" for my next visit. And I'll try to
remember to clock my
play, that 1000 hph sounds exciting, I was always "waiting for
the machine to
catch up to me" at 600-700 hph.
Maybe we should just post here on the vpfree-Reno message
board, try to
keep the Vegas crowd in Vegas, eh?
~MARK P.
(Seattle)
--- "lwluiki" wrote:
> Just returned from Reno.
> Found the $1 FPDW at Harrah*s (I reported I couldn't find them
in a
> previous post).
> Also found 14 (banks of 8 and 6) lightning fast multi-multi TITO
> brand-new GameKings at the Silver Legacy with FPDW in 25c/50c/
$1.
> I clocked myself doing a sustainable one thousand plus hands per
> hour. The strange thing about this was during the weekend, I put
in
> about 15 hours of play and there was only one other serious
player
···
> there the whole time.