The game in the picture is called Chambers of Gold. It came out about 7 years ago. These are individual progressives. When it was new it had first position on the game selection screen with a tab next to it saying "new game." The ploppies hit the game hard. They would pop in 2,3,4 icons, all the while running the meter up, then walk off from the game. I would come in behind them and complete the play collecting the money in the meter.
The meter resets at $100. In the game in the picture the meter was resetting at $400. It was either a glitch or a technicians error in setting the meter. So I had a straight through play. Notice I didn't put the 9/10 or the 10/10 in the payscale. On plays like this I cull out the extreme long shots hits while calculating the payback. The 9/10 and 10/10 represent less than .5% of the payback.
In wonging this game I benefitted from both short coiners and long coiners. You can bet anywhere from a nickel to $2 on this game. But at a 50 cent bet or higher you qualify for the meter. The short coiners drove the meters up without qualifying for anything. But they also didn't pop icons in when they hit a 7/10. At the 50 cent bet you are putting 2 cents per game in the meter. At the $2 bet you are putting 8 cents per game in the meter.
I was finding strong plays like 2 icons to go and $250 in the meter. Stuff like that. The average cost to produce a 7/10 is about $50. So a play like this was worth about $150 for about an hour's seat time. To make my time worth something I usually required at least $80 in the meter per icon(s) to go. In other words, I would play it off if it was 2 to got and at least $160 in the meter, 3 to go and $240 in the meter, etc. One to go was an automatice play.
Long before I found this play I found 5 machines in a casino in Billings where the meter was resetting at $500. I got in about 200,000 games and collected the meter about 60 times before they caught up with it. The worst play I had it took me 8500 games to hit five 7/10's. I was stuck $670 and the meter payed $670 so I broke even. Darn, that's some bad luck.
I made a lot of money the first year this game was out. But eventually the ploppie action slowed down to where, unless I found a glitch meter, I was only making about $10,000 a year on the game. And it eventually got worse than that. Nowadays, I'm lucky to find 5 plays a year. The ploppies just quit playing the game.
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Posted by: mickeycrimm@yahoo.com
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