Intelligent play is NOT part of the marketing stradegy.
People see a what they think is high Royal a dump a few dollars in the machine hoping to get lucky. All will lose very quickly unless they hit that Royal.
The break even point on these games is HIGH! This is due to the fact that the base paytables are set so low. Over 11,000 coin Royal, or about $2750 for quarters. They are approaching that number with the added 4000 coins M kicked in for the quarters. However the marquee outsid eis blantant false advertising. Someone misplaced a decimal point. It is not 102%, but 100.2%
It won't be high enough for any teams to play is my prediction. Someone putting in $20 will get lucky and win, like the 1st Royal that was hit. Gonna be a long time for it to be playable again.
M is making a fortune on these games from all those $20 that get deposited.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mike" <melbedewy1226@...> wrote:
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> Ok. That explains it. I never saw that mentioned anywhere else including "Bob"'s original column. This will be an interesting experiment on the quarter machines. The dollar machines, as I expected are not drawing any intelligent play at under 100% levels.
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "the7thwarrior" <Judy@> wrote:
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> > Two of the games started at a higher ROYAL.
> > One started at 8000 coins, (joker) the other at 6000 coins. (super double)
> > On both the $1 and 25 cents games. So now that some Royals have been hit, there are three different Royals growing and growing.
> >
> > --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mike" <melbedewy1226@> wrote:
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> > > From what I understand of the the new progressives at M casino each of the 8 games is supposed to get a meter rate of .50%.
> > > Which means that (other than the one game somebody got a royal on which is down to $1100) each game should have an identical royal.
> > > Yet Frank said the Joker game is at at $2800, Super Double at $2300 and the rest at $1800.
> > > How can this be if each game is running the same meter rate?
> > >
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