Winning at VP

[bigboy]

[QUOTE=cddenver]*My* current real life gripe is ACES.  I've already had two 20-hour dry spells this year - in one now.  Been about 6 sessions since I've hit 'em.
 
Sounds like my luck with deuces. So far this year I'm averaging over 11000 hands between ducks playing various versions of deuces wild. More than twice what it should be. Seems like the only game that I have any luck with this year is good ole Jacks or Better. I'm over 100% without a RF.[/QUOTE]
 
Don't feel bad Shadowman. After at least 2 million deals, I have never been dealt a royal! I guess that would put me at about <->3 on dealt royals.

[shadowman]

Don't feel bad Shadowman. After at least 2 million deals, I have never been dealt a royal! I guess that would put me at about <->3 on dealt royals.
 
I know an individual who has more royals on the draw than he has had dealt. I've never had one on the draw, he's had 5.
 
As far as RFs go the real question is whether you're getting your share. Even with my droughts on one card hits I've been getting close to the right number over that time period.
 
Maybe you're saving your first dealt RF for a big multiplay jackpot.

[bigboy]

Yeah like when IGT comes out with the new 1000-play format!

[oej719]

Shadowman,
All your royals have bee dealt? Is that true for most royals?
I have never had a royal dealt. All 4 have been on the draw.
2 of them I held 3 cards
1 I held 4 cards
1 I held 1 card.
 

[shadowman]

Shadowman,
All your royals have bee dealt? Is that true for most royals?
 
Sorry for the confusion. I meant all 5 cards drawn above. Most of my royals are holding three cards. 

[shadowman]

I just noticed another good web site for Tunica players:
 
http://www.tunica-vp.com/index.htm

 

[pokeherguy]

Thanks for the link shadowman, if I'm not looking at it wrong it proves that I may have been finally right about something as far playing VP in Tunica goes. I had a lot of friends who loved to go to the Horseshoe casino and play slots and since I'm not much of a slot player I found thier VP machines and took some of the worst beatings in my life there. It took me about five trips to the Horseshoe casino before I quit going and made the Grand my prefered casino for VP. Ever since then everytime someone brought up the Horseshoe concerning VP I had nothing good to say about the place.

[cddenver]

I had a lot of friends who loved to go to the Horseshoe casino and play slots and since I'm not much of a slot player I found thier VP machines and took some of the worst beatings in my life there. It took me about five trips to the Horseshoe casino before I quit going and made the Grand my prefered casino for VP. Ever since then everytime someone brought up the Horseshoe concerning VP I had nothing good to say about the place.
 
Funny, isn't it?  I'm not much of a believer in luck or "mojo", but there are a couple of casinos here that I won't touch with a ten-foot pole, even though they have the same games with the same pays that I play elsewhere.  You mentioned five bad trips - I'll give a casino a lot more play than that before I give up on it.  One place here that I've given up on is Isle of Capri.  Rarely had winning days of any kind.  Gave up on it three years ago, and since then the only times I visit it are when they send me a "Come Back!" cash coupon.  I'll cash out the coupon and then walk right out the door...

[shadowman]

Funny, isn't it?  I'm not much of a believer in luck or "mojo", but there are a couple of casinos here that I won't touch with a ten-foot pole, even though they have the same games with the same pays that I play elsewhere. 
 
I think it is very common for people to have winning/losing streaks at individual casinos. Another facet of randomness. A few years ago before moving to Vegas I ran into a bad losing streak at the casino closest to my home. I started going to another casino (3 times farther away) and had much better luck (same game). This lasted for several years before my luck turned around at the closest casino. Here in LV I have one casino that kills me all the time. Lost there for the last two years playing good games. What I do is reduce my play a the casino where my luck is poor until it turns around. As long as I'm playing good games I understand it is just another kind of streak.

[pokeherguy]

Maybe I looked at the site wrong you gave shadowman, it had a listing of all the casinos in Tunica with what I took to be the payback percentage of all the VP games and every denomination from each casino and it appears that the Horseshoe had the lowest payback of them all. Therefore I thought my bias against the Horseshoe held merit.
 
Isle of Capri, this casino did'nt last long at Tunica. I had a buddy that lived right down the road from this casino so I met him there a couple of times for a meal and to play. The first time I could'nt believe how few people were in the place and how rough the ones that were looked. The last time I went was on a saturday night right after the first of the month and they had a larger crowd but the same class of folks. They had bad security problems there and after several stolen and broken into vehicles along with robberies thier reputation was pretty much shot and from what I understand they pulled up the anchors and floated the boat a little further down the river.