Triple Action Poker

[neilemb]

This is a game that has appeared at Casino Rama, where my wife and I
have been playing recently. My gut feeling is that it is not worth
playing, but I am unable to do all the math needed to confirm that
feeling. I'll give all the details here, to see if anyone wants to
try and analyse the game.

It is on IGT machines, supposedly for quarters. However, you must
play for 20 credits to get the full 800 for 1 royal flush payoff,
making it, in essence, a dollar machine. On that basis, the pay scale
is as follows:

royal flush 4000
straight flush 400
4 aces 400
4 2's, 3's, 4's 200
4 5's thru K's 125
full house 40
flush 25
straight 20
3 of a kind 15
2 pair 5
pr jacks or better 5

This appears to be a brutally downgraded version of bonus poker, with
an E.R. of 86.647%.

But, there is an upside. If your completed hand contains 3 threes,
you play the next nine hands at triple the above pay scale. The E.R
for these nine hands increases to 259.94%.

It appears to me that one would have to play about 7.5% of their
hands at the triple pay scale to produce a weighted E.R. in the order
of 99.6%, an E.R. I could live with. This suggests that one would
have to have those elusive 3 threes about once every 110 hands. I
don't think this is a realistic expectation, but I don't have the
math tools to prove it.

Does anyone want to try and figure this one out?

[mubowor]

I'm very confused. Is this the 3-Way Action Poker they have at Palms
in nickels and dimes and at Caesars in quarters? I guess it is not
since you play on these 30 coins maximum. You get paid on the five
card deal, then on the second five card deal, then you get two extra
cards for a 7-stud hand. Three paytables. Complicated. I'm sure a
dedicated person could sit and figure out a strategy and payback
percentage, I'm not such a person, but I find these machines fun.
Your machines might be the same or different, maybe a good Samaritan
will tell us all there is to know of both.

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This is a game that has appeared at Casino Rama, where my wife and

I

have been playing recently. My gut feeling is that it is not worth
playing, but I am unable to do all the math needed to confirm that
feeling. I'll give all the details here, to see if anyone wants to
try and analyse the game.

It is on IGT machines, supposedly for quarters. However, you must
play for 20 credits to get the full 800 for 1 royal flush payoff,
making it, in essence, a dollar machine. On that basis, the pay

scale

is as follows:

royal flush 4000
straight flush 400
4 aces 400
4 2's, 3's, 4's 200
4 5's thru K's 125
full house 40
flush 25
straight 20
3 of a kind 15
2 pair 5
pr jacks or better 5

This appears to be a brutally downgraded version of bonus poker,

with

an E.R. of 86.647%.

But, there is an upside. If your completed hand contains 3 threes,
you play the next nine hands at triple the above pay scale. The E.R
for these nine hands increases to 259.94%.

It appears to me that one would have to play about 7.5% of their
hands at the triple pay scale to produce a weighted E.R. in the

order

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of 99.6%, an E.R. I could live with. This suggests that one would
have to have those elusive 3 threes about once every 110 hands. I
don't think this is a realistic expectation, but I don't have the
math tools to prove it.

Does anyone want to try and figure this one out?