The Path III

[tech58]

How many hours of play for nine 4OAK's FAA?
I quite often have "over-quad" days and still a loser.
Have done rough calculations several times and have seen days with one per 150-200 hands.
Also recorded one day with two royals and ZERO quads in 6 hours of play (roughly 3600 hands).
The gods of the machine giveth and taketh away.

[tech58]

How many hours of play for nine 4OAK's FAA?
I quite often have "over-quad" days and still a loser.
Have done rough calculations several times and have seen days with one per 150-200 hands and a lighter bankroll.
Also recorded one day with two royals and ZERO quads in 6 hours of play (roughly 3600 hands).
The gods of the machine giveth and taketh away.

[FAA]

Tortured Thursday. I lost my $25 Caesars table FP on a four to out. I won $27 on my $25 quarter JOB FP. It took eighty minutes for my first quad, the second twenty minutes later. But a pure overall disaster. Net Day: -$400. 110 TCs.

[olds442jetaway]

Sounds familiar. Better luck next time. In desperation for 2024, I have switched to inferior multi line nickel games. You probably read it already.

[olds442jetaway]

Just looked back and probably shouldn’t have. Last tiny Royal was 12/21/2023. Since I have been playing lots of multi line poker since then my best guess is at least 300,000 hands without a Royal. . I hope I am not heading toward my two records or over 600,000 hands set twice some years ago.

[Tedlark]

FAA, I know this may be a bit of a stretch for you but have you ever thought about playing multi-line games at a lower denomination? Triple play, or maybe Five play at the .05 or .10 denomination? Max coin in of course.

[FAA]

No, but the time has come. It'll be cloning the Olds rut. But I'll settle for lesser pay tables if I can curtail the massive losses. The alternative is three hours of progressive JOB.

[Tedlark]

If you do dip a toe into multi-line games, don't go for the carnival games. Stick to the games you know until you feel comfortable with multi-line play. Good luck.

[olds442jetaway]

Ditto

[dinghy]

But I'll settle for lesser pay tables if I can curtail the massive losses.

I think you should do whatever olds and Ted agree on.