Man vs Machine, when it rains it pours!

[DAAnMAAn]

Sometimes Jacks or Better doesn't get the memo it's supposed to be a low variant game. So I suppose it doesn't matter what game or pay table, if it's not hitting, downward goes the credits down the rabbit hole bye bye.

[wildman49]

Its been a hell of a month so far this April. Man beating up on machine and that man is me! Here is a limited update for April. Look for a full April update next week.Hit Royal #6 on the 3rd and then tried to hold on to the $800 for awhile. Did not work out well slowly gave it back the next few weeks.Took my wife to the airport Thursday (20th) for a trip to Arizona then headed to the casino for an over night stay and some drinking time with a buddy. We hit the steak house for dinner, at that time I was down a few 100.  After a nice prime rib dinner it was off for more play.A few weeks back they reprogrammed a bank of machines with all games at 99% plus games. I been playing a lot of 9/6 Bdlx, 9/6 Jacks and  8/5 BP. Well it was not long and #7 for the year hit for $800 on Bdlx. Went to bed a 1:30am feeling good. Got up at 7am and about 2 hours later into play BP gave me #8 for the year. A good 15 hours of play over the 2 days. Still got some play to get in my 80k point total for the month.Been playing a ton of hands a month 60 to 70k plus working full time its wearing on me. Want to move up to .50 ($2.50) bet to play half the time but then the tax man wants his share so right now its $1.00/$1.25 bets till July 1st to make Diamond tier. Good luck chasing the Royal!

[Carcounter]

Congrats. I too have had a good run lately. A $ 2,000 royal on 4-7 and a $4,000 royal on 4-20. However yesterday a disaster, lost $ 800 playing $ 1.00 SDB at Borgata. That's ok now up $ 3,800 for the year. Think I will slow it down for a while and get out to golf as the weather permits.

[pokerpokerpoker]

9/6 BDLX is a great game.

Around here, it is only available at $5 though and every quad locks up for the tax man's cut.

[alpax]

A few weeks back they reprogrammed a bank of machines with all games at 99% plus games. I been playing a lot of 9/6 Bdlx, 9/6 Jacks and  8/5 BP.

I'd wish that happened to more casinos across the nation.

I think moving up to 50 cents will help you achieve status twice as quick if you think you need the time for other things. At 3% state tax, a Royal Flush is the only outcome that will cost you $60, but that will take 60 hours of playing to average one.

Congrats on a good run!

[billryan]

Nice results and report.

[FAA]

Last trip to Borgata, 4-5 hours on .50 Super Double Bonus. 2
quads all session. Lost $900. Getting up the courage to go down again.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Car, remember the bad old days? Yesterday was almost as bad as last month's doozy. Good thing you won big in between.

[wildman49]

I think moving up to 50 cents will help you achieve status twice as quick if you think you need the time for other things. At 3% state tax, a Royal Flush is the only outcome that will cost you $60, but that will take 60 hours of playing to average one.

Congrats on a good run!

 Thanks AlI agree moving up would help but the problem is last year I had to claim $5750 and got to write off $745 since you get $12,600 anyway we just don't have enough to deduct on itemize form. So if I make the move up its going to be $1 level since the 4k royals will add up can write off most of it. Working on a 20k bank roll for 2018.Also moving up means bigger day trip losses, for me not sure how I might handle them. I handle $500-$700 losses fine but going from $1.25 to $5.00 bets and going home down 2k might be to much for me to handle. Would love to hear from $1 players and how long it took them to handle big down days.

[Carcounter]

I play 9/6 job for dollars and 9/5 sdb for .50 and sometimes dollars. Worst day at job lost $1,000 over 4 hrs. Lost $ 800 in 1&1/2 hrs on 1.00 sdb Friday. Played dollars because I had hit a 4K royal on job the day before. I can handle a $ 500 loss pretty easy, a 800-1,000 loss bothers me. Once lost $2,500 one day at dollar triple play double joker at Ballys AC. Was a full pay 99.97% game, and had a 3x cash back day. Would go back tomorrow if they put it back.

[FAA]

I can relate to losing $100 per hour, which is bad enough. By the time I ever get a dollar RF I will have severe buyer's remorse at my pace. Time to jump off the train. I'll just cover the Quarter Circuit.