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Let's Talk VP Tourneys

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My only experience playing tourneys is at River Palms(Laughlin).
They have a free 5 minute one every other Tuesday, $5k/pays 25 places.

The machines (Bally Gamemakers?) were in tournament mode, a Jacks or
Better game. Here is the taytable:
(75,150,200,250,500,1000,1500,2000,2500)

Put it in units based on Jacks it computes to:
(1,2,2 2/3,3 1/3,6 2/3,13 1/3,20,266 2/3,333 1/3)

So Flushes, Full Houses, Straight Flushes are enhanced, one/two pair
the same, the rest diminished in value, compared to 9/6 JB.

Messing with Winpoker a Royal pops up every 63,829 hands. The first
order of business in strategy change is to save any non-pair three
flushes.

Questions: What is the IGT tourney mode paytable? Are most tourneys
JB based games, or do they get exotic?

The Pioneer is going to offer their "Doc Holiday's VP Shootout"
starting next week, Tues and Weds. for the Snowbird season. They have
their own tourney room/machines. I think it is 20 minute/1500
credits/300 hands sessions, top score wins with just one round. $20
to enter-100% returned as prize fund.

Anyone play this before, remember the game/paytable? How about some
VP tourney stories?

BS

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--- In vpFREE@y..., "bluestreak86001" <graytleegray@a...> wrote:

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Anyone play this before, remember the game/paytable? How about some
VP tourney stories?

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I've played in two kinds of tournaments, and here's what I remember
of each:

Strat - 2 day tourney, using 8/5 Bonus game, with standard paytable
except RF was reduced to 500 credits. 4 rounds, played two per day
at predesignated session times. The machine was set to 1500 playable
credits with a separate credit meter registering the wins. We had 20
minutes to play each round, which was easy to do. No wild cards or
anything strange - just basic high score wins, and prizes were
awarded 50-deep. (top prize = $10000, total prizes = $21750)

Harrah's (AC) - Simple, one-round tourney, played whenever you walk
in between certain hours. Game was DJ (8/5, I think) with no
adjustments to the pay table. I believe the time alloted was 10
minutes. I think top prize is $3K, but the total is only $6K, so not
too many winners. I'll be doing this one again soon, so I'll try to
pay more attention!

Still hoping to hear from some of the folks who played in
the "Executive" tourney at Strat - combination of VP, BJ & slots.

Marsha