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I've always loved the Louis Pasteur quote "Chance favors the prepared mind," This is how this video keno game is played: It's a classic example of a progressive/banking game. It's a ten-spot It's a 50 cent bet. First, the payscale:
HIT..............PAY..............FREQ...............PAYBACK PERCENTAGE
4/10............2....................6.79..........................26.4638%
5/10............4..................19.44..........................20.5711%
6/10............9..................87.11..........................10.3315%
7/10..........49................620.68............................7.8946%
8/10........405..............7384.47............................5.4845%
Total...........73.7455%
This is why I'm lucky. I'm lucky because I can do the math and identify a strong play when I see it. Notice the 7 pyramids in the picture. Those are machine picks. Anytime you catch at least 4 machine picks and hit a pay in your own numbers you go into a bonus round. Do you know of any keno calculator online that will calculate that frequency for you? I had to do it myself. The frequency is 127. And I had to calculate the number of bets returned in the bonus round, 13.2
13.2/127 = 10.3937%
So now I have the game up to 84.1392%
In the picture you can see the progressive meter at the top of the screen is at $411.25. It runs at 4%. Next to the progressive meter you can see five icons. One of them is filled in, the other four are blank. On the payscale on the bottom right you can see an icon sitting to the right of the 7/10 line. When you hit another 7/10 it will fill in another icon at the top of the screen. Collect five icons and you get the money in the meter.
Since the frequency of 7/10 is 620.68 the cycle for hitting five of them is 3103.4. The meter on this particular play resets at $400. Thats 800 bets.
800/3103.4 = 25.7782%
84.3937% + 25.7782% + the 4% meter means I have a 113.9% play. The game plays on turbo speed at 25 games per minute. That's 1500 games per hour.
1500 X 50 cents X 113.9% means I have a $104 an hour play. Thats what I call getting lucky. Not lucky in the game. Lucky because I can identify a strong play when I see it.
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The game in the picture is called Chambers of Gold. It came out about 7 years ago. These are individual progressives. When it was new it had first position on the game selection screen with a tab next to it saying "new game." The ploppies hit the game hard. They would pop in 2,3,4 icons, all the while running the meter up, then walk off from the game. I would come in behind them and complete the play collecting the money in the meter.
The meter resets at $100. In the game in the picture the meter was resetting at $400. It was either a glitch or a technicians error in setting the meter. So I had a straight through play. Notice I didn't put the 9/10 or the 10/10 in the payscale. On plays like this I cull out the extreme long shots hits while calculating the payback. The 9/10 and 10/10 represent less than .5% of the payback.
In wonging this game I benefitted from both short coiners and long coiners. You can bet anywhere from a nickel to $2 on this game. But at a 50 cent bet or higher you qualify for the meter. The short coiners drove the meters up without qualifying for anything. But they also didn't pop icons in when they hit a 7/10. At the 50 cent bet you are putting 2 cents per game in the meter. At the $2 bet you are putting 8 cents per game in the meter.
I was finding strong plays like 2 icons to go and $250 in the meter. Stuff like that. The average cost to produce a 7/10 is about $50. So a play like this was worth about $150 for about an hour's seat time. To make my time worth something I usually required at least $80 in the meter per icon(s) to go. In other words, I would play it off if it was 2 to got and at least $160 in the meter, 3 to go and $240 in the meter, etc. One to go was an automatice play.
Long before I found this play I found 5 machines in a casino in Billings where the meter was resetting at $500. I got in about 200,000 games and collected the meter about 60 times before they caught up with it. The worst play I had it took me 8500 games to hit five 7/10's. I was stuck $670 and the meter payed $670 so I broke even. Darn, that's some bad luck.
I made a lot of money the first year this game was out. But eventually the ploppie action slowed down to where, unless I found a glitch meter, I was only making about $10,000 a year on the game. And it eventually got worse than that. Nowadays, I'm lucky to find 5 plays a year. The ploppies just quit playing the game.
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In this picture you can see that the meter is at $446.30. There are 3 icons popped in.
46.30 X 25 X 2 means I had played 2,315 games at that point....on my way to collecting all five icons. This old dinosaur is hi-tech these days. I have one of them new fangled windows phones so I can take pictures of my plays. And I learned how to use imgur.com to put these pictures up on forums. I think imgur is the easiest to use. It's so simple even this computer illiterate can figure it out. There are some circles, not the majority, that think I'm a fraud just telling drunken tales. But I'm hi-tech now, guys and gals. I can show proof in the form of pictures that I'm not a fraud.
CHAMBERS OF GOLD 2 http://www.imgur.com/2sKRC0D
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This is just one illustration in my machine play arsenal. I have a lot of other plays that are not known in the conventional machine pro world. I love blowing my own horn Call it narsissitic if you will. But I'm the good kind of narsisstic. I'm going "hey folks, look at me. This is what I can do." I'm not the malignant kind that tries to run others down to his level.
I know in my heart that I'm one of the best ever. I took a lot of training from the best, John Scarne, Jean Scott, Bob Dancer, Dan Paymar and others.
But I have pushed the bounds of advantage machine play well beyond the scope of their works. So much so that I am a pioneer of so many machine plays.
Am I willing to tell everything I know at this point. No. I have to protect my position. But I'm probably the only machine pro that ever existed that could make a $2000 bankroll earn $100,000 a year. That is the state of my game today. That is just how good I am. 19 years of experience and I had my first six figure year last year.
While everyone complains about the state of machine play today I just keep excelling at it. The older I get the easier it gets. I'm at the point today where I rarely have a losing day. I have a $607 a day average earn as the crow flies.
How its done is a question that I will only answer in the future. All you kind folks better hope I die a slow death. If I drop dead of a heart attack you will never get the answer.
mickey writes: "How its done is a question that I will only answer in the future. All you kind folks better hope I die a slow death. If I drop dead of a heart attack you will never get the answer."
You should put it all in a "diary" or personal memoir to be released by your estate only upon your untimely death. Better yet, make sure Bob Nersesian is your estate lawyer, I'm sure he'd know how to handle it. If you wanted to make some money off of the idea now, maybe you can do one of those crowd funding things where they pay you to write it and get a copy only upon your untimely death.
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Thanks for the advice, NOTI. I think I will look into that.
BTW, I only had the play in the picture for 2 and a half days. I found it in a dive bar in Deer Lodge. The little joint just couldn't take the losses. I heard the owner on the phone to the slot route operator "Get your *&%&$*^%$#%* asses down here and figure out why I'm getting my *&$$#%()^%$$% ass kicked on this one machine."
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