Hand of the day.

[billryan]

I've seen bars that offer a bonus if you hit a specific hand. I was wondering how much it would add to the house edge if they made the hand of the day a losing hand.
Let's say they make it 3h,5d,7s,9 c and 10h.
Let's say it would pay the same as a straight flush.
At what point do you chase it? Would you go for it with two cards? three cards? Even with four cards, you only have a one in fortyseven shot.
I'd imagine a lot of players would chase it with two or three cards, costing them a fortune.

[alpax]

A straight flush does not account too much towards the overall return of the game, the variance proponent is low, 1 in 9000+ for 0.50% return. To create one hand worth 50 for 1 (or more on games like White Hot Aces or Triple Bonus Plus) would not impact the overall game much.

A Royal Flush is tough enough to hit even if you get 4 to it on a draw. Thus I would not go for it even if I had any 4 to that losing hand. No connecting straight or no possible for flushes which are big, and you put yourself in the situation where you need that 1 card or else nothing else pays.

I believe Mr. Dancer has mentioned about a promotion about a casino offering a bonus payout for matching a player's last 5 digits of their SSN with the final card outcome regardless of suit. A bank of players who are chasing a progressive would memorize each other's SSN. When an idea situation would come up, they would switch seats so that the player who is close to matching their SSN will have a chance at winning. Your proposed hand is tougher and less rewarding.

[Vman96]

If you had 4 to the jackpot garbage hand it would be worth it because the garbage bonus would be worth 50/47 = 1.064 betting units, except for high pairs. But after that it wouldn't be worth it because 3 to the jackpot hand would only add 50/1081 = 0.0462 betting units. You gain more by tossing all instead of holding 3 garbage cards.

And as for the change in return, it's quite minor. Make the garbage hand worth a Royal, and it becomes more intriguing (and worth probably about 0.4%, like a royal in a 5th suit with a little discount). You would typically treat it like 3 to a royal (but it's close to pairs though as the draw alone is worth 0.74 units...i probably take low pairs over this in JoB/Bonus and 22-44 only in DB/DDB and if 4 to a flush was available, I'd take that too.), 4 to a royal. 2 to the jackpot hand I doubt because most of 2 to a royal value comes from the high cards and flush/straight chances.

[DaBurglar]

Golden Nugget AC used to have a  "CARD OF THE DAY"  whereby if you caught a quad with that card, you won a "bonus" of something like 400 coins/credits for whatever denom  you were playing.....it applied to only specific machines in specific BANKS (obviously only single line games too)  and I forget if you had to notify the slot people yourself (basically wave and jump up and down to flag them down)  or if they were kinda/sorta keeping an eye and would thus "Catch it when it happened."   I don't know the specifics of how it worked because, alas, I never ever hit it!  lolThey long since did away with this promo, however, as I have not seen it at GN in ages.

[billryan]

Lots of places do it, but it's always a winning hand. I was in a bar yesterday where the hand of the day got you entered into a pool. On the last Sunday of the month, those winners present were in a drawing and three people are chosen to roll a pair of dice.You win $10 for each point, and doubles let you roll again.
Nothing great but Ill guess most winners show up for the drawing, giving the bar a crowd at 5pm on a Sunday.

[alpax]

I recall that the handful of gas stations I've been to in Vegas, the special bonus hand is a quad of a specified rank each day. I would not mind if the special hand be a flush of 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 or even a sequential straight flush. As Vman stated, it has to be worth a Royal payout to even consider altering strategy from the norm.

The downgrade of a full pay DDB / Bonus Poker pay schedule does not make it worthwhile to play the special hand most of the time. Not sure if these bars carry full pay games to even consider playing, unless they give you free booze at a low betting requirement.