--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
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> TEMPERATURE'S RISING - So we'll use a two-coin dollar IGT Ten Times Pay machine with a temperature gauge on it. Move the gauge up to 600 degrees and you get a 100 coin bonus. On a 90% machine the math would look like this:
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> 100/600 = 16.67% of payback is in the bonus.
> 90% minus 16.67% = 73.3% of payback is in line pays.
> 16.67% + 73.3% = 90%
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While out working today I had an epiphany. I think I caught myself in a 15 year math mistake. The mistake was in my favor though but it probably cost me some plays. I think I overestimated the cost of spinning off those Temperature's Risings. The 100 coin bonus here is coin-out too. So I think I should have added the 600 plus 100 then divided 100 by 700 to get the payback percentage of the bonus. I'm pretty good at math but I damn sure ain't no Michael Shackelford. Oh, well. To late now. It's been 5 years since I played a Termperature's Rising.
Time for a story. This was sometime about 2000 or 2001. I had a friend, an ex-cab driver in Vegas, who played the advantage slots. He had to go to Denver to settle a traffic case. He told me he would be back in a week. It was 6 weeks before he got back. I thought he went to jail. But he had a different story to tell. While settling his case he went up to Blackhawk to see if there were any advantage slots. He walked in the door of a casino and slot techs were installing 6 dollar Temmperature's Rising's with 100 coin bonuses.
He had them all to himself. No other hustler's around. The ploppies gave the new machines lots of action. He knocked them for $50,000. In those small houses in Blackhawk that's really cutting into a casino's bottom line. They finally got wise and knocked the bonuses down.
