I have an upcoming trip to Harrah’s Southern California and was just checking out the best games. I have never played dream card before. Any suggestions on strategy? I’m not even sure how this game works.
Sylvia
Dream card BP
Strategy is no different. You pay double per hand ($7.50 per deal of 25c triple play). About half the time (in BP, it varies by game), you will get dealt your first four cards and then the machine will pause and say “dream card” and fill in the best possible 5th card.
So if you have trips in the first four cards, instant quad. RF3? Instant RF4. Etc.
Game has a well known glitch and doesn’t recognize a pair of 4s as superior to a pair of 5-10s. So you have to manually change it when you get dealt hands like 4-6-7-9-DC. The machine will pair the 9 even though the 4s are a superior pair. No such glitch with 2s or 3s and it converts pairs to trips just fine.
Royal Flush cycle is under 8500. And I’ve hit several royals on those machines including dealt DC triples. But the variance can be brutal. Good luck.
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On Mar 31, 2014, at 1:32 PM, <sgosl…@…com> wrote:
I have an upcoming trip to Harrah’s Southern California and was just checking out the best games. I have never played dream card before. Any suggestions on strategy? I’m not even sure how this game works.
Sylvia
re Dream Card – I’ll also chime in on the same note … if high variance is your drug, you’ll enjoy the game. Otherwise, it’s not a prudent choice from a bankroll perspective.
The game requires 2x the wager compared with the base game equivalent, and only offers a very tiny incremental increase in return. Meanwhile, it hikes variance considerably.
It puts 8/5 bp into the risk turf of ddb, by concentrating 9% of the game return into just the rf and quad aces hits (15% if you lump in the low bonus quads). As long as the machine hits “on expectation”, it’ll be an exciting game, given the much higher hit frequency. However, during even modest droughts, I see the game as inducing quite a bit of pain.
In short, I look for much stronger returns in my play before accepting this type of bankroll risk. But I expect this game has a particularly strong “entertainment” payback.