Last trip I played a couple and made notes about another.
River Palms fairly recently tuned-up their bartops with new flat
screen/slanted platforms. All three bars have royal meters at the quarter level. Each
bar/game has its own meter. So a little scouting is needed, but I usually can
find a playable game. Trouble is my strategy adjustments are on the fly ones.
I played 8/6 Jacks with a $1,700 meter. Plugging the numbers into Winpoker
the base game at reset is just like 9/6 Jacks, with a royal frequency at 40,395
and SF 9,149. At $1,700, this is diminished to 33,133/8,946 for a perfect
stragegy ER of 99.98%.
The EW's bartops are all tied to the same quarter royal meter now. Bonus 8/5
is excluded and the best ER game is 9/6/5 DB with a base 97.8% (royal-40,864,
Straight-64.48 frequency). So there are 60+ play stations that might be
contributing to the meter.
At $2000 meter, the ER is 100.09% (royal-32,927, straight-64.96). The guy
two seats down from me hit it at $2781 in the Sportsbar while we were watching
the games. The Winpoker numbers are 102.01 %, royal-32,169, straight-66.88.
I just wonder how close I get to ideal treating the base game like 9/6/5 DDJ
and saving anything that looks like a two card royal or better above $2k on
the meter?
I never get to play the $1 8-coin game in Sassy Sue's. But it has been in
the Pioneer forever. It is a unique 9/6 Jacks style game, with a three-way
progressive. The SF and any Quad meter reset at the right spot. But the royal
resets like a 5-coin game.
I wrote down two snapshots of the meters. One was $7410, 777,213 for 100.79%
and the second $7,887, 1,016, 200 for 100.95%. You have to adjust the meters
to five coin equivalents to plug into Winpoker. If you just add one coin to
the quads ($208 meter) that raises the base game to 99.78%, with the royal/sf
at normal 800/50 payoffs.
These games get alot of short coin action to help the meters. Sassy Sue's
bartenders can even comp drinks with one dollar coin play.
But what do high-rollers get playing these games indirectly? I know there
are appreciation dinner partys, but I do not know if they will comp you tourney
entrys? Pioneer does quarterly BJ, slot and VP tourneys with entry fees from
$220-650 a pop.
You really can't help yourself with the casino promos. Usually it is a quad
that will get you a drawing ticket, not coin-in. Pioneer does distrubute
free-play, but is it for locals only? Pioneer's best suite is not much better
than the room I get comped through the low roller Getaway Night promo.
So does anyone have a progressive meter that gets your interest once in
awhile?
BS
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