First the trip report: we just returned from 3 days in Belgium & then flew to London to board a cruise ship for 14 days to Norway, Scotland, Iceland,
Canada & NY. Very enjoyable. End of trip report.
The Ruby Princess casino had 13 IGT VP machines, all with poor paytables with ER's between 94 & 96%. The machines were single line
multi-denomination & multi-Game. But 10 of the machines were progressives divided into 3 banks & each bank had its own progressive meter. The
progressive meters only applied to quarter play.
While I played no more than 2 hours per night, almost exclusively slowly on quarter JOB. I experienced some unusual events during this cruise. First,
I got a Royal Flush in Hearts for $1263 on 9/10. Just a few seconds later a guy playing just behind me on a different bank of machines drew a RF in
Hearts, but he wasn't playing quarters & therefore not eligible for the progressive. On 9/11 I got a Royal Flush for $1581 on the second bank of progressives & on 9/15 I got a
Royal Flush for $1161 on the third bank of progressives. That's 3 Royals in less than 18,000 hands.
At one point Sue & I were playing next to each other & she was dealt 4 eights on JOB & while her machine was counting up the 125 coins she had won
I was also dealt 4 eights. During the cruise I was dealt quads six times, 3 times in 8's, twice in Jacks & once in Queens.
On almost every big ship cruise we have taken either Sue or I have hit a jackpot. On a previous cruise Sue hit 2 jackpots within 15 minutes on the same Joker machine & I hit 3 jackpots on this
cruise. Of course with these paytables you need a lot of luck to come out ahead.
From Bob B.
Posted by: "Robert Berger" <bob.berger1@verizon.net>
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