Though my five night stay at Wynn's was shortened to three because of
death in the family, I thought I would give an overview of my first
experience playing here. I go to Vegas about four times a year and
have pretty much been comped for everything at the Palms. Since we
don't quite fit the Palms demographics and they are not quite up to
our overall expectations we tried Wynn's beginning on 10/15/06.
While I thought I'd give the two 100 play and one fifty play machine
most of my time, the difficulty of getting an available machine and
the continuous over $1,200. stops playing 9/6 JOB at the $1.00 level
made me switch over to the single play $25 ($125) for five coin in
JOB machines in the high limit room.
Even with this game, there is a fair level of volatility. I was up
about $8k playing a machine until hitting 4 oak then going to the
next machine.
Then one night I played about an hour without hitting 4 oak on a
specific machine. Even though it makes no real difference playing
any machine with the same pay table, early in the morning I came back
to this same machine (I was the only person playing the machine as it
still had the $ amount of my previous night's cashout listed). I then
proceeded to play an hour with one 4 oak and two more hours with 0 4
oak. Later, figuring backward from the Wynn point meter and my
notes, I had one 4 oak in about 2,750 hands. I was so frustrated
after talking to the room supervisor, he contacted the Gaming
Commission for me and I asked them to check the randomness of the
RNG in this particular machine. The room supervisor was very helpful
and professional and the Gaming Commission folks took down the
details in a good manner. Later as I calmed down, the retired
Engineer in me concluded that what had happened to me was
mathematically possible albeit at the extreme end of the distribution
curve.
Because of the family death, the remainder of the day was spent
changing airline flights, going to dinner and then crashing. I had
lost about 30K in this four hours of play so I was now down $22k.
After breakfast in the morning, checking with my new host, checking
out etc. I had about 45 minutes to kill so I played Super Aces on one
of the two multistrike machines for $1.00 ($20 per hand). Now that's
a change in volatility from JOB. In 15 minutes I hit 4 Aces twice
one on the bottom line and one on the second line. This gave me $6K
so I ended the trip down about $16.5k which is about 1.4% of my coin
in. So without a single line Royal flush, I still was down less than
the 2% plus one would expect over the long term. I have read every
VP book over the past five years and actively use Win Poker and the
Dancer/Daily VP guides. I know what advantage play is, but in the
short run Mr. Singer is absolutely correct. Anything can happen I
thought Harry Porter's comments on the Rob Singer controversy as he
reported on freeVPfree on April 28 was right on. Mr. Porter should
be listened to, and there is sound reason for the concept the Singer
espouses.
I strongly recommend Wynn for high limit playing Video Poker
Players. My wife, most of the time was able to play her 25c Double
Bonus Poker on one of the four full pay machines and she saw 2 Royals
hit while she played.
I also want to thank those in this forum who recommended Carol
Bosshart to me as a host at Wynn. She and the Wynn's staff took
excellent care of me despite my mercurial personality and I would
strongly recommend her and the hotel to others. Denny
(well, you might want to buy them their own ...)