Random Rewards Poker

[Webman]

We are pleased to make this great new game available for all members to play now.Random Rewards Poker







Random
Rewards® Poker adds a new element of anticipation to the gaming
experience. Several lower ranking hand combinations – from the flush to
the straight flush – have randomly designated jackpots, up to 2,000
additional credits per qualified hand.  All members can experience Random Rewards Poker today! Click here to play

[gullysmom]

I am not a gold member, but there are cash payouts listed and I have won some, is this just for fun?

[New2vp]

Webman, do you know if the 2000 additional credits is equally likely to come up on any of the metered pay lines within each game?  I've seen a higher than expected number of big bonuses added to the Full House for Jacks or Better and added to the Flush for Double Bonus, but my sample is not big enough to form a conclusions that these pay lines are more likely to hit than the other pay lines.In limited play, I've guessed that the different games have different likelihoods of producing this big add-on but cannot conclude anything about the distribution within games.  Jacks or Better seems to have the biggest chance to hit the 2000-coin add-on per pay line and Bonus Poker has the least chance to hit.Double Double Bonus has a bigger chance per deal because it has 8 metered pay lines as opposed to 4 metered pay lines for Jacks or Better.Here's my current guess as to how many pay lines and deals have to occur to average  a chance at one big bonus of an additional 2000 credits:GAME                  PAY LINEs/BigBonus  DEALs/BigBonus  meters/dealDouble Bonus                 923                         154                     6Bonus Poker                 2000**                     333                     6Double Double Bonus     552                          69                      8Bonus Deluxe               1143                         286                     4Jacks or Better               444*                       111                     4*Seems too optimistic.     **Seems too pessimistic.Like the other games here, I'm presuming that the Random Rewards on-site game has the same chances at the various metered payoffs at what we would find in the casino.  Is that true?In limited play, I have never seen the 2000-credit add-on on 2 different lines on the same deal and given the high odds against even 1 of these, I can see that it is very unlikely, but is it possible to have a 2000-credit add-on on more than one pay line on the same deal?

[cddenver]

I am not a gold member, but there are cash payouts listed and I have won some, is this just for fun?
 
Yes, it is.  On the up side, you don't have to pay anything when you lose. 

[EDC1977]

I've been playing this for a few weeks now. It's just now being opened up? Nobody told ED da Cat! Neat game because of the cash bonuses but I couldn't play it for a long time because of the volatility and extra high variance from the random cash bonuses.

[Blorple]

Is there any public information on the expected return of the sixth-coin bet in this game with optimal play?

Obviously optimal play becomes more difficult when the paytables are constantly shifting; a game with a $75 FH and $40 flush does not play the same as a game with a $45 FH and a $50 flush, for instance, but you get both in $1 RR BP.

[doris13]

about 25 years ago at the frontier in vegas the had video poker that was very similar to random rewards.does anyone else remember it or are you all too young,lol?

[New2vp]

Re:  Random Rewards Single Line TDBWebman,This game is quite different than when I played it a while ago on the site.  I'm wondering if these are two different versions of the games that I might find in the casinos or if the first game was just a mistake.
In the current version, the average straight flush payoff went down from around $100 to around $80 and the average quad 5-K payoff went up from around $80 to nearer $100.  The average flush and full house payoffs appear to be lower, too, than they first were though that might be by chance, especially because I previously saw a couple 2000-coin bonuses for both the flush and full house.
Single line TDB used to have only 4 Random Rewards meters; now it has 8.  The meters used to be on each hand only on the flush, full house, straight flush, and quad 5s-Ks.  But the 2000-coin bonus did come up on the other 4 quad paylines occasionally.  In only those cases, there was a 5th meter shown.
I've played a few hundred hands in the last couple days and I have not seen the 2000-coin bonus even once on any of the eight lines.  I would think it would be as likely now that the eight lines are always showing as it was when only 4 lines showed.  Based on previous experience, there is only about a 2% chance that I would have seen zero 2000-coin bonuses.
Are the 2000-coin bonuses still possible with the Single Line TDB game?
Did the frequency of them appearing change from when the game was first put on the Web site?
TDB is not available on the multiline game.Are the Single Line and Multiline games identical as to the frequencies of random rewards or are there differences in some of them?Thank, just curious.

[Webman]

The version that is up now reflects the interface found on the new "Five Star" platform, which contains single line versions of Super Times Pay, Ultimate X, etc.... and Random Rewards.I thought that the only changes to Random Rewards were related to the interface but it's possible that there are other differences as well.I'll have to ask about the frequencies.

[New2vp]

Re:  Random Rewards Single Line TDBWebman,This game is quite different than when I played it a while ago on the site.  I'm wondering if these are two different versions of the games that I might find in the casinos or if the first game was just a mistake.
In the current version, the average straight flush payoff went down from around $100 to around $80 and the average quad 5-K payoff went up from around $80 to nearer $100.  The average flush and full house payoffs appear to be lower, too, than they first were though that might be by chance, especially because I previously saw a couple 2000-coin bonuses for both the flush and full house.
Single line TDB used to have only 4 Random Rewards meters; now it has 8.  The meters used to be on each hand only on the flush, full house, straight flush, and quad 5s-Ks.  But the 2000-coin bonus did come up on the other 4 quad paylines occasionally.  In only those cases, there was a 5th meter shown.
I've played a few hundred hands in the last couple days and I have not seen the 2000-coin bonus even once on any of the eight lines.  I would think it would be as likely now that the eight lines are always showing as it was when only 4 lines showed.  Based on previous experience, there is only about a 2% chance that I would have seen zero 2000-coin bonuses.
Are the 2000-coin bonuses still possible with the Single Line TDB game?
Did the frequency of them appearing change from when the game was first put on the Web site?
TDB is not available on the multiline game.Are the Single Line and Multiline games identical as to the frequencies of random rewards or are there differences in some of them?Thank, just curious.I've now played a few more than 1000 hands without seeing even one 2000-coin bonus.Based on the previous experience, the odds are about 1850 to 1 that I would have seen no 2000-coin bonuses unless there was some change.  At this point, I'm skeptical as to whether the 2000-coin bonus is currently possible with Single Line TDB.In the last 509 hands, I have seen 9 instances in which all 8 bonuses repeated what was on the previous hand; so, at least with my browser and computer, there appears to be a small glitch.  I did experience one of these when I used the "Bet Max" button.  All the others were as a result of the "Deal" button, which I select 90+% of the time.You asked me if I thought these problems were related (duplicate meter vs. no 2000-coin bonuses).  Although it is probably coincidence, I suppose it is possible that when the 2000-coin bonuses are supposed to be coming up, duplicating the previous hands meters might be happening instead.I'd be interested in what you might be able to find out.