As stated earlier, Doug Reul invented the flush 50 strategy for Unlinked Flush Attack. In the same article he also wrote about the concept of sweeping through the machines to get a much bigger edge.
My first trip to Northern Nevada was in 1998. I came in from the Utah side and stopped in Wendover. I found a bank of 4 unlinked Flush Attacks. So I swept through them. Then the machines just sat there not getting any action from the ploppies. It wasn't a good spot for sweeping Flush Attacks.
My next stop was Elko where I found a bank of 8 unlinked machines in the Red Lion....and two more across the street in Gold Country. Elko was a great spot for sweeping Flush Attacks. The business in the Red Lion was all novice gamblers on 2 and three day junkets. They were flown in and out on Millionaire Express. The Flush Attacks got plenty of action.
The sweep works like this:
You arrive at the casino and sit down on a Flush Attack machine. Your objective is to play until you collect the bonus flush (125). Then you cash out, move to the next machine and do the same thing. When you collect the bonus flush on that machine you cash out, move to the next machine, and do the same thing. You do this until you have swept through all the machines.
With this process you are picking up all the 5 coin flushes made by the ploppies before they quit the machine. What I know when I sit down on a machine is I'm going to make either 2, 3 or four flushes before cashing out. The Flush Attacks in Elko were the 7/5 variety with a theoretical of 100.7824%. Let's see if I can remember these numbers correctly:
On the plays where I had to make 4 flushes to clear the machine my theoretical was 100.78%
On the plays where I had to make only 3 flushes to clear the machine my theoretical was 103.8%.
On the plays where I had to make only 2 flushes to clear the machine my theoretical was 109.87%.
I carried a pocket notebook and wrote down how many flushes I had to make on each machine. A line in the notebook would look like this:
34224342324
I used these numbers to determine what theoretical I was playing at. In Elkoj my average was 2.9 flushes per play. But we'll round that off to 3. Playing stratight through the theoretical was 100.78% and the average value of the flush is 10 for 1. But by sweeping through the machines and picking up all the 5 coin flushes made by the ploppies I only had to make 3 flushes per play. Which meant that the average value of the flush for me was 11.67. The first two flushes pay 5 for 1. The third flush pays 25 for one. That's an average of 11.67 bets returned per flush. That brings the theoretical up to 103.8%.
At that time the Red Lion also had ten unlinked House a' Rockin's. This was also a Sigma game that worked the same way as Flush Attack, except it was based on Full Houses. It was 8/5 Double Bonus with every 6th Full House paying 40 for 1. I'll write about this game later.
On the Flush Attacks I would do a sweep in the morning then let the ploppies play. I would do another sweep in the afternoon. Then another sweep about 8:00 PM every night. I was doing about 30 plays or about 5000 hands per day with a theoretical of 103.8%. The expectation was about $240 a day. And I also got all the Motel 6's that were left.
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Posted by: mickeycrimm@yahoo.com
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