Re: [vpFREE] Question about slot manufacturers and video poker

A couple of reasons come to mind

- Not all manufacturers make a slant top that would be appropriate for a VP
platform, and even fewer have a bar top. Cabinet development is expensive,
requires regulatory approval, and must look nice enough to compete. There
is no reason to pursue this unless there is a reason to believe they could
make a significant dent in VP ship share. Which brings me to...

- VP players are notoriously fickle and superstitious, and often reject
things that look too new or dramatically different. The GameKing, GameMaker
and UCM platforms look like they're 30 years old.

- A lot of the ideas that are historically profitable are locked down by
intellectual property.

- A lot of the names that are among the top performers by coin in are
locked down by trademark.

- A lot of companies just don't know what makes a good VP game. Not sure if
anyone had a chance to see WMS "Big" Event Poker. It was shamefully
terrible.

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:11 AM, Bob Bartop <bobbartop@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Why are most video poker machines made by IGT and Bally, whereas I have
> seen very few made by other manufacturers? For instance, I was just looking
> at the website of Konami. Konami's slots seem to be gaining fast in
> popularity, I see them everywhere. But it doesn't look like they even make
> a video poker type machine. WHY?
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[vpFREE] Math v. Superstition

 


I like to sit and sit and sit at same machine, however a lot of time, it seems like the moment to leave is the moment you get a W2g, such as from dealt quads at a 5-play DDB, or a royal etc. if you don't leave, the money gets sucked and sucked away. Up til you get that W2, things may have been going well, with lots of quads, but then, after it is paid the machine gets cold as hell.

So maybe I should leave.

On the other hand, you never know. Last night playing on $1 five play DDB at the Palms, I got tons of quads, dealt 3s, then dealt jacks, then a royal, then dealt 2s, and was putting back in all the money from the 2s, when I got a second royal. All in all a great night, with about 7 hours all on the same machine. Never got aces with a kicker though.

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