I was at the Sun Saturday night playing full-pay 99.54% $1 JOB at the
Bow & Arrow. I quickly lost $290 in <400 hands. Just for the hell of
it, with my last $10, I tried the penny slot game (the one with the
racecars in it) that we criticize all the cheapskates who hoard up all
of our good machines at the bar. Sure enough, the 3 people I met to my
left and right were 21yr olds whose sole purpose was admittedly to
drink for free. I even played for only 1 penny/hand which I've been
told repeatedly is not the way to go because it reduces the number of
lines played and chances of winning. Now back in October, I indicated
that the State of Connecticut reported the average penny slot % return
to be a little over 88%. Think of that as about twice as bad as worst
paying VP game you could play. With each spin taking <3 seconds (and
faster when you hit the deal button early) I thought it should not take
long to blow through 1000 pennies(credits). Without hitting any big
payouts (highest just over 100 credits), I could not lose. After 3
hours and an estimated 3600 plays, I gave up -- ahead 200 credits ($2),
not to mention $.20 earned in player's club points. Go figure.
MS Report: Wonders Never Cease Dept.
Stevie,
We had a similar experience on Sunday/Monday. $40K through the JB at
the Bow and Arrow bar and lost $3K. Without a royal, I was hoping to
lose no more than $1K (about 2.5%) but 7.5% loss was frustrating. We
intended to play 2 hours on slot machines but ended up playing 6
hours and winning $600. MS was extremely crowded. The 97% VP machines
at $1, $5, $10 were heavily played. I noticed mostly short coin.
My wife got an email on Wednesday inviting her to a $100K drawing at
MS on Sunday night plus free room that night. She is stil Sagamore.
We figured they were intiting her because Sachem turnout was going to
be light. We discovered the drawing had at least 500 participants and
ONE person got the entire $100K. Talk about high variance.
Food was very good (buffet) and the whole event done efficiently.
--- In vpFREE_NewEngland@yahoogroups.com, "steviemcc1"
<steviemcc1@y...> wrote:
I was at the Sun Saturday night playing full-pay 99.54% $1 JOB at
the
Bow & Arrow. I quickly lost $290 in <400 hands. Just for the hell
of
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it, with my last $10, I tried the penny slot game......