because it was a losing, depleting the credit meter. This in no way implies
that the play was uniformly bad.
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Mickey <mickeycrimm@yahoo.com> wrote:
> **
>
>
> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "quickquadsvp" <quickquads@...> wrote:
> >
> > I seem to recall an old Video Blackjack machine that banked coins on a
> push. If someone pushed on their last hand and didn't have any more money
> or just wasn't aware of the banked coins and walked away, they would remain
> there available for the next player. I would imagine some of those old
> machines are still in use somewhere.
> >
> That's it, quickquad. Thanks for the memory jog. If you pushed, the bet
> was banked for the next hand. If you won the next hand you won your bet
> plus the banked bet but if you lost the machine won the banked bet. Either
> way the banked bet meter alwasy reset to zero after that next hand.
> Consequently, one only played one hand when they found a banked bet.
>
> I have no clue what the Asian hustlers found going on with the video BJ in
> Southern California. But I do know that if I was there I'm damn sure gonna
> be right over their shoulders figuring out what they are doing.
>
> I used to played the full pay video blackjack in Wendover as a comp
> runner. The game was in all the bartops in the Rainbow and the Peppermill,
> plus in many machines out on the casino floor in all three places. The game
> was on like over 100 machines. It's the only place I ever saw the game on
> more than a few machines in a casino.so
>
> It's a 100% game if you can nail the absolute correct strategy. But even
> if you were losing maybe a tenth to bad play, so what when you are running
> .8% comp. I could bet up to $20 per hand (no double up available) and ran a
> huge total wager per hour. The BJ got me a total free ride with RFB plus a
> lot of other extras. I took the earn from the poker rooms and the video
> poker progressives when they were up.
>
> I imagine the BJ game existed on so many machines in Wendover because of
> the caliber of play there compared to other places. Sometimes, when I found
> the casino empty, I would go down the row or the bartops punching the game
> up to see how the last hand was played. There was a lot of bad play by the
> public and there was a lot of odd coin betting where the player didn't
> qualify for 3 to 2 on a blackjack. I never ran more than few thousand
> dollar wager on any machine at any one time. With TITO it was easy to keep
> bouncing around.
>
>
>
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