STP

[Howard_Stern]

Last day before labor day my mom was playing 3 play 25c STP. After four hands she is already complaining about no multiplier. On the sixth hand she gets a 3x and is dealt Ac, 4c, Kc, Tc, 4s. The game is 9-6 jacks and I believe that normally going for the royal is right by a very narrow margin. IN has a 3.4% tax on W2Gs which makes the 4 flush better. We decided to go for the royal and the cJ appears on the first line and she starts moaning. Meanwhile the number 12,000 appears in the middle of the second line and she is still complaining about the first line. After I point it out to her the complaining stopped real fast! That is the only time either of us has hit a royal on that game.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Nathan O. Roemer
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 8/3/2007 7:06:11 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] STP

The Wizard of Odds says that a random multiplier will appear on STP approx
every 15 hands.

At Palace Station last week, I put $200 into one of these machines and was
down to $60 before I got the first hand with a multiplier, playing max coins
at the 3-play $0.25 level.

That's $140, or a little over 41 hands.

The thing is, I obviously didn't play 41 straight hands without winning
anything. I was going up and down in terms of credit in the machine, so I
actually played much more than 41 hands without getting a multiplier.

I actually kept looking down to see if I was actually betting all 18
coins...I was, even though I had a hard time believing it!!

I recall similar streaks without multipliers as well that seemed bad, if not
quite so extreme.

So, what gives? Surely this can't be commonplace, but I've never seemed to
have much luck with STP.

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[GOLDFADA]

Back in the good-old days of the 9/6 JoB Caesars Palace STP, I hit a 3X
royal, drawing three. Half an hour later, I complained to my neighbor
that "I never get any good hands with a multiplier." Her incredulous
stare taught me a lot!

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "howard.w.stern@..." <howard.w.stern@...>
wrote:

Last day before labor day my mom was playing 3 play 25c STP. After

four hands she is already complaining about no multiplier. On the sixth
hand she gets a 3x and is dealt Ac, 4c, Kc, Tc, 4s. The game is 9-6
jacks and I believe that normally going for the royal is right by a very
narrow margin. IN has a 3.4% tax on W2Gs which makes the 4 flush better.
We decided to go for the royal and the cJ appears on the first line and
she starts moaning. Meanwhile the number 12,000 appears in the middle of
the second line and she is still complaining about the first line. After
I point it out to her the complaining stopped real fast! That is the
only time either of us has hit a royal on that game.

[whitejeeps]

One time I hit a $4000 royal. A friend of mine, walking by, looked
over the hit. In jest I said to friend something like, "what i hit?
Wow, I thought I was playing a nickle machine. Geeze, I never play
dollar. Etc." A few spectators walking away were amazed that I, a
nickle player, actually hit the machine by accident. They probably
told the story a hundred times back home. Sometime I give them a
good show. Sometime I hit the button and hide the screen with the
move the bet up and down screen. That kinda excites the spectators
because they can't see what you hit.

Cheers...Jeep

Back in the good-old days of the 9/6 JoB Caesars Palace STP, I hit

a 3X

royal, drawing three. Half an hour later, I complained to my

neighbor

that "I never get any good hands with a multiplier." Her

incredulous

stare taught me a lot!

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "howard.w.stern@" <howard.w.stern@>
wrote:
>
> Last day before labor day my mom was playing 3 play 25c STP.

After

four hands she is already complaining about no multiplier. On the

sixth

hand she gets a 3x and is dealt Ac, 4c, Kc, Tc, 4s. The game is 9-6
jacks and I believe that normally going for the royal is right by

a very

narrow margin. IN has a 3.4% tax on W2Gs which makes the 4 flush

better.

We decided to go for the royal and the cJ appears on the first

line and

she starts moaning. Meanwhile the number 12,000 appears in the

middle of

the second line and she is still complaining about the first line.

After

I point it out to her the complaining stopped real fast! That is

the

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "GOLDFADA" <GOLDFADA@...> wrote:

only time either of us has hit a royal on that game.

[robert_tryjefaczka]

Ten times nothing is still nothing.

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--- GOLDFADA <GOLDFADA@excite.com> wrote:

Back in the good-old days of the 9/6 JoB Caesars
Palace STP, I hit a 3X
royal, drawing three. Half an hour later, I
complained to my neighbor
that "I never get any good hands with a multiplier."
Her incredulous
stare taught me a lot!

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "howard.w.stern@..."
<howard.w.stern@...>
wrote:
>
> Last day before labor day my mom was playing 3
play 25c STP. After
four hands she is already complaining about no
multiplier. On the sixth
hand she gets a 3x and is dealt Ac, 4c, Kc, Tc, 4s.
The game is 9-6
jacks and I believe that normally going for the
royal is right by a very
narrow margin. IN has a 3.4% tax on W2Gs which makes
the 4 flush better.
We decided to go for the royal and the cJ appears on
the first line and
she starts moaning. Meanwhile the number 12,000
appears in the middle of
the second line and she is still complaining about
the first line. After
I point it out to her the complaining stopped real
fast! That is the
only time either of us has hit a royal on that game.

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