In the good old days of Reno when there were so many plays around it was hard for a mid-range pro like me to decide which play I should be on...I always played the quarter bartop progressives in the Cal-Neva when the royal was at $2300 or higher. I lived just two blocks west of the Cal-Neva.
The Skywalk had a multi-game progressive with all the games on the same meter. 9/6 Jacks was the best game. The meter ran at 2%. The keno lounge bartops has the same setup but with just a 1.5% meter. And there was another bank downstairs with the same setup and a 1.5% meter.
The playable number was $2300 because that's when Winston's team came in. But they knew better than to try and lock the bank up. They would take half the machines. The rest of the players were lone wolves like me. To keep things simple I used a strategy based on a 9200 coin royal. I didn't concern myself with breakpoints above 9200 coins because it has very little effect on the royal odds.
The biggest effect on royal odds is holding the 3 card royals over the high pairs. But you hit all those breakpoints before the royal is even at $1500. It drops the royal odds down into the 33,000's. After that breakpoints don't mean a whole lot.
So there would be 10 guys all playing an aggressive royal strategy, and all cranking out at least 1000 HPH. The royal was usually hit within a few hours. But I do remember one runaway royal. It was in the Skywalk and the meter ran to $5700 before the royal hit.
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Posted by: mickeycrimm@yahoo.com
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