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UNUSUAL VIDEO POKER GAMES

#1

In my travels I have come across unusual video poker games that you just don’t see everywhere. The first one listed here, in the screenshot, is called JOKER’S VAULT. It’s a single joker game…and a double joker game. The progressive meter starts at $100 and runs at 1.667%.

http://www.imgur.com/FssytwQ

The main game has one joker and when you make a Full House, either natural or wild, you get ten free games. There are two jokers in the free games. If you make a Full House in the free games you are awarded another ten free games. In any set of ten free games, if you win 8 out of the ten games you are awarded the money in the meter.

It’s quarter denom and you can bet up to $2 in this game, the payscale will multiply out but the progressive meter remains the same. but the optimum bet is just 50 cents to qualify for the meter.

#2

Oops! I accidentally deleted the photo so you can’t view it. I have a better screenshot anyway. Joker’s Vault is a progressive game that can and does go positive, and some big edges can be found. The main game has just one joker in the deck. When you make a full house (frequency 66.3) you get 10 free games. The payscale remains the same in the free games but there are 2 jokers in the deck. When you make a full house (frequency 54.9) in the free games you are awarded another set of 10 free games.

You can bet anywhere from 50 cents to $2. The optimum bet is just 50 cents to qualify for the meter. The progressive meter starts at $100 and runs at 1.667%. When you win 8 out of ten hands in any set of 10 free games you are awarded the money in the meter. Ploppies betting more than 50 cents a game run the meters up.

I generally don’t pay attention to this game until the meter runs above $500 as in this example where the meter is at $571. When the meter is above $500 it carries close to a 10% edge and an hourly rate at $40+. You can see the vault next to the meter. Notice the 7 hinges on the vault. When you win a free game a hinge will turn bright yellow.

http://www.imgur.com/EyAXtGb

In this next screenshot you can see that all 7 hinges are bright yellow. That’s because I have won 7 out of 9 free games. This is when the game gets exciting. I have one more hand to go. If I win that hand, all I have to do is make 2 Pair or Better, I get the money in the meter. So this hand carries super huge expectation:

http://www.imgur.com/6Zvq5mz

No I didn’t win the hand. But I took the meter off just a little while later. It takes an average of 146.4 sets of free games to win the meter. But since you get an extra set of ten free games when you make a full house in free game mode it only takes an average of 119 full houses in the main game to win the meter.

119 X 66.3 means an average of 7900 regular games to take the meter off. The breakeven point in this game is a meter of $191 and that includes the meter. So a meter at $571 yields an average earn of $380. At my speed the average seat time on the play is 9 hours. So it’s about a $42 an hour play, which is about as cheap as I work.

#3

Would you mind reposting the pictures? I would like to see what this game looks like.

rob

#4

Rob, I can’t put the screenshot back up from the original post. I accidentally deleted it from my imgur account. But I found some better screenshots and put links to them in the 2nd post. I just checked those links and they work fine. So go to the 2nd post and you should be able to use those links to see the game. .

#5

I completely forgot about this thread. I was supposed to be putting up screenshots of unusual video poker games I run across. So here is a game called BIG BIG WIN POKER. You win free games with wild cards for making 4-of-a-kinds or higher. The royal pays 500 for 1 and Montana law is $800 max jackpot so the bet is set on $1.60. Betting more than that you won’t get full odds on the royal. You can see that when you make the royal you get 125 free games with Jacks wild, 40 games with Jacks and Queens wild, and 18 games with Jacks, Queens, and Kings wild.

With that payscale you would be taking a 47% drop until you make a quad or higher. Would anyone care to guess what the variance of this game is? LOL!

http://www.imgur.com/CJIDgyV

I’ll check later to make sure the link works.

#6

I failed to mention that on these machines the payback percentage for the game is listed in the bottom right hand corner of the screen. You can see it in the screenshot.