--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" wrote:
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> Bob, I think you are familiar with Quick Strike. That's a form of a "mystery slot" or "mystery progressive" that Listen is referring to. He's actually using a generic term to describe all of the various forms these slots come in.
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> I always called it Lucky Coin Bonus System because that's what the name was on the first of these machines I encountered, which was at the Mandalay Bay opening in 1998. The program was introduced by Acres Gaming. Back then the games were 2 coin quarters, 2 coin dollars, 2 coin $5, with meters that ran from 2% to 5%. There were about a half dozen linked banks of machines. Mandalay Bay removed the system after about two months and that's the last time I ever encountered a mystery slot with a 5% meter.
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> To find these machines you have to walk through the casino looking for all slot progressives. Then you have to take another look to see if there is a cap on the progressive. For Quick Strike the machine will show something like: Range $25 - $50. These so called mystery slots come in various forms. The Jumbo Jackpot at the Stations Casinos was one form.
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Sure, Mickey, I know what the Quick Strikes are. And I remember you posting about the play at Mandalay, way back when.
I don't know why I got so confused last night while listening to the show.
Let me ask you about a bank I saw the other night at my local Indian joint. I forget the name, or manufacturer, maybe it's Aristocrat, but it's an Australian theme, and you play pennies, and there's a maxi jackpot and a mini jackpot, and five reels with all kinds of confusing shit on it. Anyway, I guess the maxi and mini are what you guys are referring to as mystery progressives. Because I looked at the rules and it was a mystery to me what would trigger them. They are NOT a "must-hit-by" thing.
But anyway, for instance, say there was 8 machines in this bank. And the mini jackpots on 7 of them were like $40 to $50. But on ONE machine, it was up to like $160 bucks. Do you think that one with the $160 mini was positive EV? If so, what does a fella do? Just sit down and play all lines at minimum, which would be 30-cents a pop, and then hope the machine DECIDES to award one of those jackpots?
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