7/5 bonus poker , with or without ACES is a horrible game. Yeah, we like to
talk about that lucky stiff who hit it for $75,000 - but what about those
couple of hundred suckers who blew $1000 while chasing ?
For my money the best ACES were the 8/5 progressive ones at the Palace
Station. Gone now, but these were almost always positive.
regards...Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@yahoo.com>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:34 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Strategy adjustments for A-C-E-S Bonus Poker?
> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tom Robertson wrote:
>>
>>I love your stories, Mickey, but sometimes their accuracy sucks.
>>
>>
> Well, excuuuuuuuuusssssse, meeeeeeeee!!! I DID get the name of the town
> right! Take it easy on a poor old casino hustler, Tom. You know, they
> say the first thing to go is, well, never mind that one.
>
> "Mickey's memory is goin' boys, and it ain't comin' back"
> SUNG TO THE TUNE OF "MY HOMETOWN" by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
>>
>>Tom Wrote:
>>That play, unless it got up again when you said it did, which is
>> >extremely unlikely because I played it a lot after the time it got >way
>>up, was in the summer and fall of 2000. I played it heavily, >including
>>on election night. It (or, more accurately, "they," since >there were 2
>>meters, which, after going months without either of >them hitting, both
>>got hit on the same day, the first for $83,000 >and change by the person
>>you described early in the morning, and the >second, the backup meter, for
>>$69,000 and change, in the afternoon) >got hit within a few weeks after
>>that.
>>
>>
>>
> You've actually been a big help here, Tom. Events and times can run
> together in my mind. My memory had put it at about the time of the
> Laughlin Biker Shootout. I was interacting quite a bit with Ray (real
> name not Ray but does start with an R) at that time. But it appears, with
> your added information, that it occurred a couple years before that. I
> remember Ray telling me that his buddy had hit the hand. As for the
> number it hit for, well, my memory was way off on that one. And the
> conversation must have taken place before the backup meter got hit, which
> I know suspect was hit by Ray.
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom wrote:
>>There are some interesting, and expensive, strategy changes at those
>> >numbers, such as keeping 2 aces in sequence over a full house. The
>> >cycle with that strategy is around 260,000 hands. I was surprised >at
>>the lack of professional play, also. With the royal also >progressive, it
>>was frequently a 4% advantage and more. I later hit >it for around
>>$22,000, possibly around the time you described.
>>
>>
> I remember Ray telling me of the pain of throwing away the lower pair when
> the two Aces were in position. I appreciate the time and ability it takes
> to calculate the strategy changes in a game like this. It just goes to
> show the lengths real pros go to.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Tom wrote:
>>It was great to hear you on Frank's show last Thursday. I was >expecting
>>you to sound like a raving lunatic, so I was surprised at >how normal you
>>sounded!
>>
>>
> I probably had a lot of vpFREEer's fooled here. Or, maybe, sometimes
> there accuracy in judgement sucks! Take care.
>
>
>
