What is "Suited Royal" DB, DDB?

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cddenver
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What is "Suited Royal" DB, DDB?

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I'm scratching my head over this one - maybe I'm just missing something obvious.
 
I was at the Fortune Valley casino in Central City and on a bank of single play multi-game machines saw game choices for "Suited Royal Double Bonus" and "Suited Royal Double Double Bonus".  The first four lines of the pay table are:
 
Royal Flush - Hearts 4000
Royal Flush - Spades 4000
Royal Flush - Diamonds 4000
Royal Flush - Clubs 4000
 
The rest of the pays look to be standard ones for DB and DDB.  What's special about this game? 
 

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Post by MikeA »

It sounds to me like they may have dinked around with the paytables on that machine CDDenver.  The option seems to be there to pay either more or less for a royal in particular suits but they've made it a normal 4000 for any royal.

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Post by shadowman »

Typically this game has different progressives for each suit. Looks like someone configured the game wrong when they set it up.

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Post by oej719 »

I have been thinking all along that ALL royals are suited. Guess I was wrong.

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Post by cddenver »

I have been thinking all along that ALL royals are suited. Guess I was wrong.
 
Yes, the name of the game struck me as being somewhat redundant.  Thanks, all, and the next time I talk to one of the managers there I'll point out that the game doesn't make much sense unless there are different progressives for the royals.

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Post by knagl »

The local Native American casino has a bank of those games, and indeed the different suits for the royals each have their own individual progressive.
 
Every time I looked at the sign that said, "Suited Royal Progressive" I always think it is redundant, too.

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Post by cddenver »

I was the one who started this thread - since then, I pointed that out to one of the managers.  I don't know if the casinos pay a flat fee per machine, or pay by the number of games on a machine.  If it's the latter, it seems silly that they'd pay for a game and then disable the only feature that distinguishes it from other games.

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