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Videopoker in The Baltics

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That game used to have a 3% meter on a heart royal (no joker). It was frequently a pretty good play, and actually there was some team play when the jackpot reached NLG 13,500 ($6750 US or so)....5- coin bet equiv to quarter denom.<<

Hi Paladin, I remember that jackpot. Good times. Unfortunately I was clueless back then and couldn't take advantage. But the denom was equivalent to 50c I think (NLG 1). The casino closed at 3 am, but teams could reserve machines for the next night if they had been playing until closing time and would get back in when the doors opened. This made the casino very unhappy as the regular players couldn't get a seat, but this rule had been in place since forever and they couldn't just go ahead and change it (being state-owned and all that, things like that took time).

There were slot teams as well, I remember one team playing a cherry jackpot slot for days and days. There were many spectators. They didn't crack it and finally had to give up. Must have cost them tons of money. One or two days later a college kid won it.

There used to be many opportunities in this casino, even some a clueless person like myself could take advantage of (most notably the wrong accumulation of points on player's cards. This went on for months. I remember playing for quarters one evening and accumulating around $ 250 in cash back). And there were some very attractive bonus slots near the bar. We would just sit and have a drink and if someone left a good machine we would advance on it.

Unfortunately all of that is now gone and the place even has the gall to offer low denom black jack where you lose a push(!).

#2

I know a couple of the slot team organizers...one ended up in Bangkok, got himself a lovely, educated, and very well connected Thai wife and is doing well in real estate devlopment and restaurant franchising over there.

The VP progressive was about the time I started playing VP, you're right, my bad about the denom. Just double the numbers. I remember once it got to like almost $20K US and you couldn't get on, but not a lot of team play. I'd show up in AMS occasionally and stop in and play some poker.

AMS is a great city...the most American of the European cities.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Karen Beno <karen_beno@...> wrote:

>>That game used to have a 3% meter on a heart royal (no joker). It was frequently a pretty good play, and actually there was some team play when the jackpot reached NLG 13,500 ($6750 US or so)....5- coin bet equiv to quarter denom.<<

Hi Paladin, I remember that jackpot. Good times. Unfortunately I was clueless back then and couldn't take advantage. But the denom was equivalent to 50c I think (NLG 1). The casino closed at 3 am, but teams could reserve machines for the next night if they had been playing until closing time and would get back in when the doors opened. This made the casino very unhappy as the regular players couldn't get a seat, but this rule had been in place since forever and they couldn't just go ahead and change it (being state-owned and all that, things like that took time).

There were slot teams as well, I remember one team playing a cherry jackpot slot for days and days. There were many spectators. They didn't crack it and finally had to give up. Must have cost them tons of money. One or two days later a college kid won it.

There used to be many opportunities in this casino, even some a clueless person like myself could take advantage of (most notably the wrong accumulation of points on player's cards. This went on for months. I remember playing for quarters one evening and accumulating around $ 250 in cash back). And there were some very attractive bonus slots near the bar. We would just sit and have a drink and if someone left a good machine we would advance on it.

Unfortunately all of that is now gone and the place even has the gall to offer low denom black jack where you lose a push(!).

#3

I agree it's great, but I'm curious why you'd think that it's the 'most American'. With its liberal attitudes (window-shopping for sex and numerous "coffee bars" with marijuana menus), Amsterdam seems like one of the least American cities to me. Even ignoring that small side of the city, Amserdam still feels typically old-European to me--on a par with Brussels or Cologne, for example.

Rotterdam or The Hague, to mention two nearby cities, seem much more American to me.

--Dunbar

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

AMS is a great city...the most American of the European cities.

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Enlgish is widely spoken there, and people are generally as rude as you'll find in any other american city lol...whoops! I mean, frank and candid!

The girls and drugs there are way overrated IMHO...but that's for another forum lolololol.

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

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "paladingamingllc" <paladingamingllc@> wrote:
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> AMS is a great city...the most American of the European cities.
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I agree it's great, but I'm curious why you'd think that it's the 'most American'. With its liberal attitudes (window-shopping for sex and numerous "coffee bars" with marijuana menus), Amsterdam seems like one of the least American cities to me. Even ignoring that small side of the city, Amserdam still feels typically old-European to me--on a par with Brussels or Cologne, for example.

Rotterdam or The Hague, to mention two nearby cities, seem much more American to me.