Short-coin bets give the casino a huge advantage over the player. Did the first video poker machines require 5 coins to get the bonus ("full pay") on the royal, or was that something that evolved over time?
Nowadays, we see all sorts of full-pay variants: 3-coin, 5-coin, 10-coin, 1-100-coin, etc., with the vast majority being 5-coin to get the full-pay royal. Just wondering if that was always the case. Don't think I've ever seen a 1-coin game that was full-pay, come to think of it.
JD
I first played in early 1981 and the pay schedule was full pay for
five coins, 250-1 for less than five coins, and the same 800 50 25 9 6
4 3 2 1 that we see today. I believe it was March, 1981 in case that
sosomebody saw this about that time.
Short-coin bets give the casino a huge advantage over the player.
Did the first video poker machines require 5 coins to get the bonus
("full pay") on the royal, or was that something that evolved over
time?
Nowadays, we see all sorts of full-pay variants: 3-coin, 5-coin, 10-
coin, 1-100-coin, etc., with the vast majority being 5-coin to get the
full-pay royal. Just wondering if that was always the case. Don't
think I've ever seen a 1-coin game that was full-pay, come to think of
it.
The first paragraph was my answer to John Douglas' question. I put
the answer in the wrong place. Henry Itkin
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, John Douglass <john.douglass@>
wrote:
>I first played in early 1981 and the pay schedule was full pay
for
five coins, 250-1 for less than five coins, and the same 800 50 25
9 6
4 3 2 1 that we see today. I believe it was March, 1981 in case
that
sosomebody saw this about that time.
> Short-coin bets give the casino a huge advantage over the
player.
Did the first video poker machines require 5 coins to get the
bonus
("full pay") on the royal, or was that something that evolved over
time?
>
> Nowadays, we see all sorts of full-pay variants: 3-coin, 5-coin,
10-
coin, 1-100-coin, etc., with the vast majority being 5-coin to get
the
full-pay royal. Just wondering if that was always the case. Don't
think I've ever seen a 1-coin game that was full-pay, come to
think of
Short-coin bets give the casino a huge advantage over the player. Did
the first video poker machines require 5 coins to get the bonus ("full
pay") on the royal, or was that something that evolved over time?
Nowadays, we see all sorts of full-pay variants: 3-coin, 5-coin, 10-
coin, 1-100-coin, etc., with the vast majority being 5-coin to get the
full-pay royal. Just wondering if that was always the case. Don't think
I've ever seen a 1-coin game that was full-pay, come to think of it.
JD
All though not "full pay", I have seen (no longer set up that way) that
had 800 for one coin 1600 for two etc through 4000. Min denome was a
dollar, but I used to play them for a dollar a hand at 98.98%.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, John Douglass <john.douglass@...> wrote: