The Path II
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Re: The Path II
I swear these casinos have a torture chamber. Oh! That’s right! It’s the chair we sit in in front of our machine sometimes. In many a marathon session over the years, I have been subject to The Rack as well.
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Perhaps close quads are part of clustered programming. It happens too often to be coincidental. They love to bunch them. Most players are scared rabbits who decamp after a quad. But I see value in staying for fifteen hands. In yesterday’s case, Q/SF.
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FAA, "clustered programming"? If so, then the machines are not random.
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Oh gosh, here we go again.....Waiting4RF wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 5:48 amFAA, "clustered programming"? If so, then the machines are not random.
Not a knock on Waiting, just looking at the "rigged machines" perspective. I have a question to FAA about "clustered programming": if you think there is such a thing, why don't you up the denomination that you are playing and play at max coin in during these stretches of "clustered programming?"
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Maybe a recent coincidental phenomenon. It must occur minimum fifty more times before I join the conspiracy theory camp. Right now, it’s just interesting.
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My Scientist friend who is gone now was an absolute genius. He always said even in chaos, there is order.
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Sad Saturday. I lost my $25 table FP on three craps. I won $20 on $25 dollar JOB and got it to $147. I lost all and left Caesars -$80, despite three quads in seventy five minutes. I never should have left. I had one quad in that span at Harrah’s before busting. I think that this will be my last side trip; much likelier to make bad denomination decisions. Net Day: -$480. 410 TCs.
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Three quads in 75 minutes is a Martingale Clone player’s dream. I would definitely have been ahead at that point. While it is impossible to tell what betting level I would have been at, my guess is if I started with 5 quarters, I would have hit at least one of the quads with 8 or 10 bet. Hope you can recover on the next trip.
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were the "broads" a distraction?
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I realistically expect a three trip recovery timetable. Quads commensurate with hands played. But I indulged a long two buck Harrah’s phase. I saw an early $800 DDB Aces hit, which gives me more faith to emphasize morning play. Four different machines. I left the first after my $75 quad. Sure enough, guy sits down and gets a quick $125 quad. Second took 45 minutes and thus cost me $160. The $31 quarter quad cost me another $30. In hindsight, I should have simply stayed at Caesars, where I better manage BR. More quads isn’t necessarily better. You’re paying plenty for them.