007 wrote: . . . Reduced mailers is hardly the only one. 1/2% sounds high, generally, although
in the example that Bob gave in his article, it was many times that.
Playing for a $70,000 royal as if it were worth $70,000 when the cost
of hitting it was most of it would probably reduce the value of the
play by thousands of dollars.
The $70,000 royal was in Gary, Indiana at a casino I was not planning to ever visit again. There were no playable games there to make it worth the time and energy to get there from Las Vegas that I could see. There were nearby casinos, and the Horseshoe in Hammond, IN had a loose high limit area --- although there was a WG2 tax there that I wasn't positive about.
Future mailers were NOT on my radar. I had no "backup" person to hold the machine while I slept or ate. I was in a "hit it now or lose the opportunity" mode. Although the word hadn't crept out yet about the machine, there were two different players who came up to say hi while I was playing. They recognized me from my classes in Las Vegas. It was only a matter of time before "guess what Bob Dancer is playing at the Majestic Star" word got out --- and when that word got to the right ears, I would lose the machine as soon as I had to sleep again.
Undertaking a strategy to reduce how often I hit a "one-time-deal" royal wasn't anywhere in my top 200 ideas for how to play that "find." Although anything is possible, coming across a machine where a casino has dumped $50,000 from another game is a once-in-several-lifetimes event. Most people never find such a situation. I'm not strategizing about the "next time" I come across such a situation.
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