Multidenominational Machines

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Multidenominational Machines

Post by FAA »

How important is playing on a multidenominational machine? I prefer Caesars as a location, but there is zero flexibility on their full pay machines. It's either quarters or the dollar and up banks. This is the major reason for leaning towards Borgata. That bar lets me pivot quite easily depending on how play is going. If you play quarters all day, it's going to be a so what trip without a RF. If you play dollars, you will likely bust. At Borgata, you can go from marathon to sprint mode and back without breaking a sweat.

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Post by Eduardo »

I definitely like a machine that can handle all the denoms I want to play. For me, that's quarters and dollars, or nickels if it's a crazy game with a high bet (10 line UX, Spin Poker, Powerhouse, etc).

If I see a machine that's only dollars or higher, or a 10 coin bet machine that's only quarters and up, it makes me think the casino isn't after my business and just wants people with a higher bankroll. Which may be true.

If one area of the casino only has dollars and another has smaller denom machines, I can deal with that as I don't mind taking a break to walk through the casino from time to time. But my favorite sessions are where I can switch denoms on the same machine when I want to.

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Post by FAA »

Everything is in the same area at Caesars. But players are much likelier to stay and bust on a dollar machine than simply scaling down to halves or quarters. Caesars requires much more discipline to survive than a multidenominational environment. I really need that ability to turn on a dime.

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Post by dinghy »

Maybe it's less common in AC, but in many or most regions, the lower denoms will be shorted on the pay schedule. For example, maybe the BP is 6/5 at 5c & 10c, 7/5 at 25c & 50c, and 8/5 at $1. In that case, it's effectively not a multidenom machine for my purposes because I would only consider playing the $1 denom.

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Post by FAA »

Quarter and dollar are the same table. Unfortunately, machines cannot alternate between them. At least at the Marina I can maneuver out of an impending wreck.

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Post by olds442jetaway »

Without quarters, halves, and dollars within the same machine allowing bets up to 25, I probably wouldn’t even play. I still miss the original machines when Mohegan Sun opened allowing bets up to 80 units on quarters. I especially miss the 2 cent machines with bets allowed up to 100 units. Myself and a small crew used to kill those machines. We would only play late at night when you could get them. I usually played One Eyed Jacks that they also pulled. Even with. 95-96 pay table it didn’t matter. After one lost a few hands, just up your bet one unit. Back your bet down depending how much you hit on any given hand. I don’t remember ever having to increase my bet past bet 68x 2 cents. I still remember hitting a dealt 5 of a kind at that level on the One Eyed Jacks game.

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Post by FAA »

You just don’t realize how good you have it. I am increasingly fed up with the limited nature of the CET machine options. It’s like fighting with one hand tied behind your back. I have to prioritize carving out a Borgata play window so that I can tread water. It’s more about scaling down in a cold cycle than ramping up in a very rare hot one.

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Post by olds442jetaway »

Probably right. However up here, they just pulled a large bank of vp machined and replaced them with mindless penny ones. 😬

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Post by advantage playe »

Where was that Olds ?? at mohegan ?? sky or earth if u dont mind my inquiring .

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Post by olds442jetaway »

Yes at Mohegan. Funny thing is none were 99 percent machines. Sky casino. Below the former high limit area that they already converted to a mindless penny machine area. It is directly across from the players club. Near the cabaret theater. In that general area, there are 4 or 5 99 percent machines left in that area and a couple at the bar maybe 50 feet away. Thats it for that part of sky. There are a couple left under the turtle done as well and one left at the circular bar near the turtle dome. They pulled the rest of the 99 ones at that bar and put in crappy paytable ones like 95-96 range. Eventually there will be no serious vp players left at Mohegan. Most have left already. There are a few left in Earth and a few 99 machines but not many. They never re opened the bar machines in the poker room. As far as I know, they have left the few pickem dollar nachines alone for the moment. One would think they would review how much serious vp players actually leave there. Most of the ones I know including myself leave 20,000-100,000 bucks a year there each. Mainly because of discipline failure. That goes for almost everybody

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