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Majestic - "Don & Mike's" open

#1

The Multi-Strike has all the same full pay games at 25c that they do downstairs.
The 10c Multi-Strike has some semi-playable games (7-5 super aces and IL deuces at about 99%. The nickel games are poor but better than Trump.)
In all cases, make sure that the RF is 4000 for 5!

The lesser known games on the $1 progressive include the three best!
Triple Pay Plus is full pay 9-5 (reset is 99.80%)

Double Bonus Deuces is full pay 25-12 (reset is 99.81%. This is the strongest game on Multi-Strike at 99.96%)

One Eyed Jacks Wild is 180-80-50 (reset is 99.98% but I do not know the basic strategy and neither Frugal, Winpoker or VPSM currently handle it. Since this is possibly the best play in the Chicago Area, I will probably do a semi manual generation of strategy unless somebody can help.)

Other Full Pay Games on the $1 progressive: BP deluxe, Jacks+ and DDB are 9-6.
    Bonus and Aces+Faces are 8-5.

One note on BJ at Trump: Late Surrender no longer offered.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Chandler
To: vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 5/8/2004 1:33:49 PM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE_Chicago] Majestic - "Don & Mike's" open

At 04:02 PM 5/7/2004, you wrote:

Apparently the bar was opened for business several days ago according
to some regulars I talked to.

Was there this morning and I can confirm. Multistrike had full pay options
(at least JB) at the quarter level. They were multidenominational at 5
cent, 10 cent and 25. Some of them are set into tables. Bartops were
dollar machines with 9/6 JB, 9/7 DB, 8/5 BP, 9/6 DDB (no NSUD) and several
other games that I am not familiar with, so could make no judgement on the
pay table. The kicker is that all vp games share a progressive meter on
the RF. Seats move and are comfortable. If the meter is set at a stingy
pace this could be a lot of fun.

Spent the night at Harrah's. Played the 7/5 BP progressive to kill some
time and hit the progressive at $1500. I took my money back up to the room
after we saw the show they had running. There really isn't much reason to
gamble there. They are not competitive. Much better vp and better (and
lower limit) blackjack conditions at Trump/Majestic. Darned nice and
convenient hotel, though.

Chandler

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#2

Darn. Many of the dealers were either uncommunicative or surly, but this was the best game I knew of in the Chicago area. Still lower table minimums, than Harrah's. On a Friday afternoon, Harrah's was pretty evenly split between 15$ and 25$tables and I hear most of them were bumped to $25 in the evening. Thanks for identifying the TP+ and DBD paytables. That bartop has potential.

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At 06:34 PM 5/8/2004, you wrote:

One note on BJ at Trump: Late Surrender no longer offered.

#3

--- In vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com, "Howard Stern"
<howard.w.stern@e...> wrote:

The Multi-Strike has all the same full pay games at 25c that they do

downstairs.

The 10c Multi-Strike has some semi-playable games (7-5 super aces

and IL deuces at about 99%. The nickel games are poor but better than
Trump.)

In all cases, make sure that the RF is 4000 for 5!

The lesser known games on the $1 progressive include the three best!
Triple Pay Plus is full pay 9-5 (reset is 99.80%)

Double Bonus Deuces is full pay 25-12 (reset is 99.81%. This is the

strongest game on Multi-Strike at 99.96%)

And also one of the more volatile.

One Eyed Jacks Wild is 180-80-50 (reset is 99.98% but I do not know

the basic strategy and neither Frugal, Winpoker or VPSM currently
handle it. Since this is possibly the best play in the Chicago Area, I
will probably do a semi manual generation of strategy unless somebody
can help.)

Where did you get the 99.98% value? I have not found any articles by
Dancer nor any of the other usual vp suspects. I suppose I should look
at the paytable on the next visit. This game definitely will have
unique nuances for potential royal draws. I suppose many of the Deuces
type hands are possible, but at what payoff?

BTW, for those of you scratching your heads after having looked at the
playing card images in some software, not all jacks are "one eyed".
That should be evident from the name, since if they were all "one
eyed" the game would simply be called "Jacks Wild". In a traditional
deck of cards just the Jack of Spades, Jack of Hearts, and King of
Diamonds are "one eyed", but for whatever reasons some bitmap
developers have chosen to implement some of the images differently. Grrr.

Other Full Pay Games on the $1 progressive: BP deluxe, Jacks+ and

DDB are 9-6.

    Bonus and Aces+Faces are 8-5.

One note on BJ at Trump: Late Surrender no longer offered.

Blackjack with surrender in the Midwest? Missed that. Oh well.

From: Chandler
To: vpFREE_Chicago@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 5/8/2004 1:33:49 PM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE_Chicago] Majestic - "Don & Mike's" open

>Apparently the bar was opened for business several days ago according
>to some regulars I talked to.

Was there this morning and I can confirm. Multistrike had full pay

options

(at least JB) at the quarter level. They were multidenominational at 5
cent, 10 cent and 25. Some of them are set into tables. Bartops were
dollar machines with 9/6 JB, 9/7 DB, 8/5 BP, 9/6 DDB (no NSUD) and

several

other games that I am not familiar with, so could make no judgement

on the

pay table. The kicker is that all vp games share a progressive

meter on

the RF. Seats move and are comfortable. If the meter is set at a

stingy

pace this could be a lot of fun.

Spent the night at Harrah's. Played the 7/5 BP progressive to kill

some

time and hit the progressive at $1500. I took my money back up to

the room

after we saw the show they had running. There really isn't much

reason to

gamble there. They are not competitive. Much better vp and better

(and

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----- Original Message -----
At 04:02 PM 5/7/2004, you wrote:
lower limit) blackjack conditions at Trump/Majestic. Darned nice and
convenient hotel, though.

Chandler

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