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Wheel Poker

I was under the impression that when you "buy" a feature, like the
multipliers in STP, or the wheel in Wheel Poker, the extra coin(s) you pay for that
feature cannot reduce the overall payback percentage. Am I remembering this
incorrectly?

Brian

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In a message dated 4/7/2008 12:23:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
bdancer@compdance.com writes:

George wrote: The wheel does not change the expected return and
unfortunately JOB is not one of the games offered. IGT offers it in
Bonus, DB, DDB, TDB, and 2 types of DW. Highest offered payback is
99.7%.

Not entirely correct. The wheel has an expected return of between 238
and 239, which makes it a slight improvement for games based on Jacks or
Better, but a lower overall return for DW. If you are playing a DW game
on one of these machines, you're better off betting 5 coins and avoiding
the wheel altogether.

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Brian wrote: I was under the impression that when you "buy" a feature,
like the
multipliers in STP, or the wheel in Wheel Poker, the extra coin(s) you
pay for that
feature cannot reduce the overall payback percentage. Am I remembering
this
incorrectly?

I was under the same impression. However there are pay schedules in the
newest wave of Action Gaming products where this isn't the case.

Bob Dancer

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To determine optimal Wheel Poker strategy and/or practice optimal
strategy in your vp tutor (winpoker, etc.):

-- Multiply the quad bonus (stated elsewhere in this thread to be 428
for non-wild card games) by 1.2 (6/5) and add that value to the quad
payouts.

If you analyze the adjusted paytable, the ER will be skewed, but all
hand statistics will be correct and the analysis of the best hold for
any hand will also be accurate. You can correctly practice against
this paytable.

- Harry