Poker Poker Poker!: [vpFREE] The Montana Play

"Won't you meet me in Montana
I wanna see the mountains in your eyes
I've had all of this life I can handle
Meet me underneath that big Montana sky"
Donny & Marie, I think

Greetings from the Montana Brewery, 128 N 28th St, Billings,
Montana. It's a balmy 19 degrees outside with wind gusts to 30 MPH,
up from the below zero stuff of the last few days. The town is still
digging out from under the snow of the blizzard that blew through.

I'm Having the Nachos Alfredo, with a couple of pints of Custer's
Last Stout while waiting for Miss America to walk through the door.
I thought I'd drop you a line while I'm waiting.

The Montana Play is officially over. My covert operation is at an
end. They finally learned how to add and subtract, multiply and
divide.

It's was a ten-coin nickel play, or a two coin quarter play,
whichever you prefer to call it. Hey, don't laugh at me. Wait until
you hear the details.

It was a Joker Wild Game (one joker). The payscale was:

RF...............800
5K...............250
JR...............200
SF................50
4K................25
FH.................9
FL.................5
ST.................4
3K.................1*
2P.................1

*That's right, the 3K paid even money. But the best is yet to come.

There were 3 bonus hands each having a 1% progressive meter. These
were mostly individual progressives. At some spots 2 or three
machines were linked together. At preset the meters looked like this:

5 Aces.................$600
4 Natural Aces.........$150
Full House w/3 Aces....$100

The only one of these progressive where the joker played was in the 5
Aces hand. The others had to be natural.

Montana law is no jackpot over $800, so the 5 Aces meters would go to
$800 and stop. The other meters never got that high so they could be
counted in totality on the play.

I'm down to a 25% charge so I've got to run. But first, a pop quiz,
kids!

1. Where would you put the theoretical payback of this game?

2. What kind of a theoretical hourly rate would you put on this play?

3. If you played this game for 50 hours per week for six months,
what is the estimated number of W2G's you would figure to accumulate?

You are not going to be able to run this game comprehensively on any
of the existing programs. I expect your answers to be on my desk in
half an hour.

P.S. I'm the King of the Lowrollers, baby!!! Don't ever forget it!