"VpKing77" wrote:
Jean and Brad must be one of the lucky ones that hit a couple of
top line royals. It is not uncommon to lose over $5000 on a $1 9/6
MS in two hours. Come in the next day and do the same.
Lower that threshold to about $4K in 2 hours and I expect you're pretty much on target. (It's my guess, off the top off my head, that odds drop considerably for a >= $5K loss, considering that the wager-weighted variance of 4-level Jacks play is roughly on par with $5 single line play.)
For those appropriately bankrolled for $5 play, I wouldn't expect someone to deem $1 MS play "brutal". (Not saying that was your characterization, VPKing.) Bear in mind that even if you never see that approx 1:320000 top line hit, you're still playing with an ER that's close to playing the same game in single line format (albeit with volatility at something like 1.2x that of the total wager played on a single line game).
Still, I can understand why some people will drive expectation based on the somewhat misleading "$1" denomination of the game.
- H.
<XVP aside: As new Georgia denizens, we got our first taste of a Southern style hail storm early last evening. I've never witnessed anything like it in my 50 years in the north (Michigan/Pennsylvania). In a very localized 15 minutes unrelenting assault in Marietta, our lawns/gardens were solidly blanketed with a cover of gumball (1/3") sized hailstones.
Bev (with my able assistance) had potted eight mid-sized to large containers with flowers, adding to eight the previous weekend, as well as planting two new modest beds with herbs/perennials. In the first couple minutes of the storm, Bev expressed concern and I (expecting the hail to quickly dissipate, as had always been my experience) muttered something along the lines of, "what doesn't kill them will make them stronger".
My smugness quickly faded, as I watched stem and stalk battered down one by one as the stones accumulated with shocking speed. Next thing I knew I was failing in driving rain and hail around the deck and pool, grabbing containers two at a time and ferrying them to Bev on our enclosed porch. We then pried out the hail from amongst the stems and used a couple of hairdryers on low setting to mitigate the frost damage.
When the storm finally abated, the stones on the lawn had largely melted, leaving the beds still blanketed in what otherwise might have been mistaken as a fresh 1/4" snow cover. It was simply unreal.
I expect that when daylight breaks shortly, we'll discover the fate of the flowers in the larger urns left out last night. It's not gonna be pretty, but maybe the flowers will be hardier than I expect.
All I know is, having parked our cars on Philly streets the last 20 years, I'm damned thankful of our new garage!
- H.