I received an email saying these were coming to CET properties. Has anyone seen them? What are you thoughts?
Williams my poker
What is it? Looked like an online game to me.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "robert" <barton454@...> wrote:
I received an email saying these were coming to CET properties. Has anyone seen them? What are you thoughts?
I was told that a bank of WMS slots on the floor of Harrah's NOLA are slated for conversion to vp with My Poker enabled, pending regulatory approval.
My take on the feature set: Lots of buzz, but no real meat. (I've been mistaken in the past)
The real gem here is a machine profile that features a lower keypad/handrest ... promising a more comfortable play experience.
- H.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "robert" <barton454@...> wrote:
I received an email saying these were coming to CET properties. Has anyone seen them? What are you thoughts?
I haven't
seen the live version, but I did examine what they had at the G2E Gaming Show
recently.
The boxes
are more comfortable to play at than the IGT boxes. Different body types may
not fit so well, but it's worth checking out.
For otherwise the
same pay schedule, WMS pays 275 for a straight flush rather than 250. This adds
about 0.05%. It's hard to get excited about this amount --- but still, every
little bit adds up.
They have a
large number of options on how you see the cards. Most are worthless, in my
opinion. The two options that seem most useful to me are sorting by rank (high-to-low
either right-to-left or left-to-right) and they have a couple of 4-color suit
options that might make it easier to differentiate clubs from spades or
diamonds from hearts. Using both a sort option and a 4-color option together
would make 3-card straight flushes, for example, much more obvious than they
are now. That alone could easily improve someone's accuracy because they would
"blink" fewer such combinations. And it would be easier to see if
they had 1 or 2 gaps if they were in sequential order.
Harrah's (nationally
and Las Vegas Strip) and Station Casinos (Las Vegas local) are purported to
have a 6 month exclusive on the game. After that, expect to see it everywhere.
Bob
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Apparently IGT knows a good thing when they see it (in reference to the comfort of the new WMS vp consoles.)
I did a walk-through of Harrah's Lk Tahoe tonight (I arrived in Reno today), and discovered that the H/L inventory $1/$2 3/5- & 3/5/10-play slants have been replaced with new IGT uprights featuring a lower button panel / armrest similar to the noted WMS consoles.
(The new H/L machines feature the same paytables as the displaced machines. The former machines have been relocated to the main gaming floor, yielding 2 or 3 new machines with $1/$2 9/6 JB and 9/6 DDB (3/5 plays only ... 3/5/10's are still shorted))
- H.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bob Dancer <bobdancervp@...> wrote:
I haven't
seen the live version, but I did examine what they had at the G2E Gaming Show
recently.The boxes are more comfortable to play at than the IGT consoles.
Thanks a lot for the info. I figured since the sent emails, the new machine would start appearing. Probably a while before the hit Atlantic City. I like the keeping track of how many hands you play. Makes it a little easier to figure comps and offers.