6a. Re: PICTURE: $4,000 - $1 Dealt Sequential RF
Date: Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:32 am ((PDT))In a message dated 8/30/07 7:27:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
weharter@yahoo.com writes:> To get the probability of a dealt, sequential T-A RF you just
> multiply the two probabilities which is 4/311,875,200 or 1/77,968,800.
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But does A-T count too? The only game that I play with a Sequential RF bonus
is Royalmania Bonus 8/5 at the Golden Nugget-Laughlin...either way works.
The picture showed a "pay" of 4,000, so apparently this particular sequential Royal was not on a machine that awarded anything special for such a "hit". I would suppose that what "counts" will depend on the specific machine / bonus.
I played some 8/5 $1 triple play Jacks or Better at Venetian a few weeks ago, where there was a progressive at almost $80,000. I was prepared to hit the ATM if I ran out of money, but fortunately, before I got behind, I re-read the fine print and saw that you had to get a royal on all three lines to get the progressive - which means either a dealt royal or an incredible draw!! Left as soon as I saw that "detail". Sequence was not an issue.
I don't know how to figure it out, but I suspect that $80,000 for a dealt royal on a machine that costs $15 a hand is not a sufficient progressive to make this positive expectation, with the underlying game being Jacks or Better 8/5 - since you need about $8800 for a "regular" progressive on 8/5, as I understand it.
I thought it was too good to be true, and sure enough, it was. And it was indeed "fine print" that told the whole story, on the screen, but not on the machine itself anywhere at all other than the screen, at least that I could ever see.
--BG
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