This is how it really went down. The casino needed to get some action to justify the special high-roller room. So they juiced it a bit, offering to match other casino's offers in freeplay. There were lots of looky-loo's but no bites, not even a nibble or a nudge, until Bob got hooked. But Bob did make a crucial mistake, he used maxEV strategy, and ran well, beating the machine straightup even without the royal he hit. The problem now is that it's very hard for the casino to offer Bob more juice, after all it appears that even if he didn't hit a royal, he would still beat the machine. How do you sell that story to the CEO? Had he played min-Royal strategy instead, he would have reduced his odds of hitting the game ending royal and likely would have lost some on the drop as well, making it easier for the casino to offer some additional juice. Let's hope Bob learns a valuable lesson from this experience, perhaps he will even write about that in his column, after all you learn from your mistakes, not from your achievements.
(In case anyone wants to know what strategy I'm calling minRoyal, the basic idea is that you maximize the return of the non-royal hands, by setting the royal value to zero in your strategy generator of choice you get something like: 3A>FH>4SF>2A>2P>HP>4FL>4STo3-1H>LP>4STo>3FL3-2H>3SF0>AKQJ>2FL2H>4STi3H>3SF1> KQJ>4STi2H>QJ>A>2H>3FL1H>1H>3SF2>4STi)
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