--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Harry Porter" <harry.porter@...>
wrote:
The discussion last year caught my eye. I had had a discussion with
an AC player a few years ago re strategy on a stand alone game. My
gut feeling was that you would play by an average Fl payout -- they
argued that you'd go strictly by the current payout.
Your gut feeling was correct. But I haven't discussed the absolute
best strategy for stand alones yet. It's called the Sweep:
How many flushes would you have to make to collect 10 bonus flushes?
Since you have to make 3 to turn the light on and 1 to turn it off
you would have to make 40 total flushes to collect 10 bonus flushes.
But what if you walked into a casino and found a bank of 10 flush
attack machines with no one playing them. We'll use the 7/5 flush
atacks that come in at 100.8%, using the flush 50 strategy, as an
example.
So you sit down on the end machine, play it until you collect the
bonus flush. Then cashout, move to the next machine and play it
until you collect the bonus flush. Then cashout, move to the next
machine and play it until you collect the bonus flush. You sweep out
all 10 machines like this counting all the flushes you made.
And when you get through you made only 30 flushes total. Oh, it
might be 27, or 34, but we'll use 30 as an example. What you have
done is picked up all the 5 for 1 flushes that the previous players
made before quitting.
So where would you be percentagewise. You made 20 regular flushes
and ten bonus flushes. 20 X 5 = 100; 10 X 25 = 250; 100 plus 250 =
350. 350 divided by 30 = a flush value of 11.66. A gain in value of
1.66. 1.66 divided by 55 (how often you make a flush) is 3%. So
instead of your money being at 100.8% it's at 103.8%.
Then you come back a few hours later and do the same thing. Who
wants to play straight through on one machine when you can do it like
this and get a much bigger theoretical.
There is added value from what Flush Attackers jokingly call the
Motel 6. "I'm Tom Bodette, and we'll leave the light on for you."
Occasionally, some person will put the machine in flush attack mode,
run out of credits and walk off. Every one you find is worth a
twenty dollar bill. Finding 10 or 15 a week greatly adds to the
bottom line.
In places like Tahoe, Minden and Elko I made $5000 to $6000 a month
sweeping flush attacks. It was a bread and butter play.
My question to you specifically focused on your approach to a linked
bank -- for as noted, unless you deem that the competition has as
fine
an understanding of the strategy as you do, adopting a strategy
keyed
to the actual attack cycle of the full bank (vs that of optimal
standalone play) is called for.
- Harry
On the linked banks I used two strategies. First, when the light is
not on, the best strategy is to not play. But that created a problem
in the Laughlin houses because you could get pitched out for using
that strategy. So I played 1 coin to make myself look busy. I used
8/5 double bonus strategy. If I used any kind of flush strategy I
would just be contributing to the coffers of the other hustlers.
Because they are doing everything they can not to contribute to
turning the light on. I wanted the lowest loss rate I could get
between lights.
When the light came on I went to the 5-coin bet and played the
strategy based on 125 coins for the flush. It produces a flush every
42 games and your money is at 135%. I also played as fast as
possible.
The strategies the other hustlers used in mode was not that big a
concern to me. Most of the players had the key holds down--like
holding a flush 3 over a low pair, etc.
There were some who insisted on using flush 50 strategy which
produces a flush every 55 games with a return of 129%. But there was
a problem with this strategy, beside the lower payback, to me. It
stretched out how long you spent on the bank to get a win. Maybe you
don't want to do that in a house where what you are doing could get
you pitched out.
The ploppie tourist types might be able to produce a flush every 80
or 90 games. Maybe some were smarter than that.
Then you had the stone cold kamikaze hustlers who would hold a 3
flush over two low pair, or over a high pair.
There were all types. But my thing was hands per hour. How many
hands per hour am I getting in when the game is in flush attack
mode. 100 games per hour has a theoretical of $44 per hour. 150
games per hour has a theoretical of $66 per hour, etc. As long as I
am getting in a decent amount of hands per hour in the mode I don't
care what the other players are doing.
