>One post referred to 6/9 as the "old" notation and requested that Frank
>change to the "new" 9/6 notation. I decided to check which version is
>earliest. The only information I have about how pros notated it is from
>Frank. None of the old pros' analyses and strategies were ever published
>until Frank's great book last year, so let's look at the early publications.
>
>Stanford Wong's "Professional Video Poker" (1988) refers to it as
>"9-6-1000 Jacks or Better." It puts the 9 first, but with a hyphen
>rather than a slash.
>
>Lenny Frome's "Expert Video Poker for Las Vegas" (1989) refers to
>"full-pay 9/6 machines" and "8/5 progressives."
>
>There were a couple earlier magazine articles by David Sklansky, et al,
>but I don't have a copy of any of them. If anyone knows how those
>articles notated the payoffs, please post it here (if they even used any
>such notation).
>
>Lacking anything to the contrary, it appears that "9/6" has always been
>the most consistent in print, so I'm adding my request for Frank to
>adopt the most commonly accepted notation, putting the higher payoff first.
>
>Dan
>
>
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When I first got involved in progressives, I was playing 8/5 Jacks or
Better. I mentioned the "5/8" progressives to the man who was kind of
a mentor to me and he immediately corrected me that they were "8/5"
progressives. I've always assumed since that the higher number should
come first.
