Mickey,
It's generally unusual to find a "wheel" partially built. If you cash out your credits at any time in "Build A Wheel" vp, the machine actually offers to pay you a partial value of the wheel theo. (You can also opt to leave the segments in place for the next player ... fat chance!)
However, there's a always a chance a player managed to deplete their credits and walked away without a cashout. In that case, presumably any filled wheel segments will stay intact for the next player.
If you luck upon that instance, best EV play would be to put $5 in and immediately cash out. Of course, it you're motivated to play the generally negative game because of other inducements (count me in here), then you just continue the build.
FWIW, I cashed out a $.25 game with one segment filled because I needed to leave and was surprised when I was offered something like $18.
As far as game analysis, Michael Shackleford has an interesting discussion on the game on his website. What I found notable is that he didn't seem to realize that the "random" value of each wheel segment is directly related to the trigger hand value (dealt trips trigger an increasing value segment fill based upon trip value, ditto for high card in straights/flushes, as well as the trip value in FH's).
http://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/tables/build-a-wheel/
- H.
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> We did very little play at the Horseshoe next door (where we stayed in a beautiful suite, BTW) but we did have a lot of fun playing a game there called Build-A-Wheel poker. It featured a wheel above the normal screen that was divided into eight sections. Two of the sections (or pieces of a pie) were filled in already when you began to play. One pre-filled section had a 4,000-coin bonus and the other had a random number, something like 1,365 or 1,335. Every time you were dealt 3-of-a-kind or better another section of the wheel filled in. When all eight sections were completed, the wheel would spin and you would get whatever bonus was in the section the wheel landed on.
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> Looks like a short term advantage play if you find a machine with enough blanks filled in. I would love to analyze the game.
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