Its probably been brought up before (many times probably) but since I am new to the group I'll put it out there anyway.
Just back from "what's left" of Atlantic City after 5 nights. Some time ago all Caesars properties changed the tier system on ALL positive expectation games in AC form $10 coin in to $50 coin for 1 tier point. This has been a major talked about issue in the acvpp (Atlantic City Video Poker Player) yahoo group since this started last spring.
While there I saw almost NO vacant seats at the 8 progressive 7/5 JOB machines most of the time at Caesars. I played some in the early morning just to see how things turned out and to get a seat. The progressive on these machines started at $1,300 when I arrived, and late in the week grew to over $1,900 (25 cent machines).
Right next to these progressives, were the 9/6 JOB machines with the $50 coin=1 tier point and most of the time were ALWAYS vacant.
My question(s) are, is there any time one should be playing the 7/5 progressive machines (based of the progressive amount) instead of the full pay machines with the bad comp/tier requirements? Is there a formula when the 7/5 machine is preferred? Are all those folks playing the 7/5 progressive machines wrong?
Thanks for the help
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