I was helping my friends at Leading Edge Design demonstrate their new
Multi Strike Poker game at the recent Native American Gaming Show in
Phoenix, when I bettered trip Aces to quad Aces with a 3. Upon
seeing the quad Aces, I hit the deal button for the next hand as I
spun around to joke that it was too bad that I wasn't playing
triple
double bonus. Still, it was a little strange that everyone was
looking at the machine bug-eyed. Turning back to the game, I
realized that I was dealt a Royal in Spades on the 2nd line for an
8,000 coin win! It wasn't even important that this game was on a
trade show floor and not in for-pay operation, so it was points, not
coins that were won. Still, the place went wild just like in a
casino.
Half an hour later, I bettered three to a royal to the RF on line 3,
for 4x the pay table, or 16,000 credits. In my book, that's the
same
as 6 RF's in 30 minutes since the total win was 24,000 credits.
Reality returned fast when a slot director asked me to demonstrate
one of the 12 VP games choices on Multi-Strike Poker where I
didn't
know the strategy. As I fumbled around, figuring I was seriously
misplaying, I look up to see Bob Dancer shaking his head at my poor
play, violating the cardinal rule of not playing a game if you
don't
have the strategy down cold. Very humiliating.
Speaking of strategy, in Tuesdays online VP column, Dancer takes a
look at the strategies for Multi Strike at
http://www.casinogaming.com/columnists/dancer/061003.html.
Definitely worth a read.