My Mrs. hits a Vman dream hand

[olds442jetaway]

     Two nights ago, I was plunking away on Phil's single coin method with not much success, but treading water for the most part. The Mrs. decided to walk a few steps over to a bank of nickel machines that had lots of tough games including multi hand Double Super Times Pay. She decided to play 3 lines at max bet which is 7 on that game. She was dealt 3 Aces with a 4 on the bottom line. She held the Aces and the 4 and was lucky enough to catch the 4th Ace on the top line with a 12 multiplier that popped up. I don't know the rest of the specifics, but the bottom line is she hit for over 22,000 nickels. That really made her day. Being the smart lady that she is, she packed it in early and worked on some lesson plans upstairs. Me or course being not so smart, plunked away then tried a few other things that didn't work. Anyway, good for her and I hope the rest of the gang has similar hits soon.

     Just a minor edit. The multiplier was 8 and not 12. She saw the 4 and the 8 when doubled and thought they had given her the 12. When I did the math just now, I got the 22,400 number which was the correct payoff on the top line for 8. Of course the Mrs. doesn't care about such detail. She just counts her pocketbook while I turn my pockets inside out with just the lining hanging out.

[FloridaPhil]

[quote]Me or course being not so smart, plunked away then tried a few other things that didn't work.[/quote]Nice hit.  Your wife's a smart lady!   The Cheap Strategy is all about limiting losses on negative expectation games.  In order to reap rewards from this strategy you must compare your results over a long period of time. This is why most folks don't stick with it.  They would rather hit jackpots sooner even if it costs them more to do it.  To each his own... 

[FAA]

I'd like to get nickel and dimed with that jackpot! No taxes on $1,100 either.

[alpax]

Nice story olds and thanks for sharing this! It seems like when the Mrs. hits, she really hits. The topic is very fitting and I hope Vman does not get too jealous... Then again for Vman, the stars have to align at the right time with the various different games played, so even more luck is required (saw dealt quad deuces with a 3 on JoB on the latest trip report . )

[olds442jetaway]

No doubt, single coin is the best method to preserve your money. I just wish I could hit something with it. One of my recent trips where I indicated I would combine the Phil method with my Martingale clone worked a little for awhile, but then failed. After 4 or more hits, I did up my bet for one hand and if that didn't work, the next time I hit 4 or more on single coin, I upped my next bet again by an additional coin and so forth up the ladder. Unfortunately, the stars weren't aligned just right that evening, so I never hit anything good on my upped bets. Eventually I found myself betting 25 on the bet following my 4 or more hit and I had to pack it in after a several hundred dollar loss. If I had kept those upped bets to 5 and still hit nothing or minimal stuff, I think the losses would have been under two hundred bucks.

[olds442jetaway]

Nice story olds and thanks for sharing this! It seems like when the Mrs. hits, she really hits. The topic is very fitting and I hope Vman does not get too jealous... Then again for Vman, the stars have to align at the right time with the various different games played, so even more luck is required (saw dealt quad deuces with a 3 on JoB on the latest trip report . )

     I too seem to have a knack for getting dealt deuces on the games where they don't matter. In my last 3 sessions, I had dealt deuces on job at least once in every session and 2 of them were with kickers. I can't remember the last time I had dealt deuces on games where they matter. Another recent session within the last month produced 4 aces 3 times on job. I guess I need just a little more Irish blood in me for the proper hits. The Mrs. has plenty from her clan. and my clan is down at the 1/8th or so level.

[FloridaPhil]

 [quote=Olds442jetaway]One of my recent trips where I indicated I would combine the Phil method with my Martingale clone worked a little for awhile, but then failed. After 4 or more hits, I did up my bet for one hand and if that didn't work, the next time I hit 4 or more on single coin, I upped my next bet again by an additional coin and so forth up the ladder.[/quote]Olds, if you don't mind me saying so, I think you would do better if you stayed with max coins or played Cheap Strategy as defined.   Play it with single line deuces wild only.  Play one coin/five coins and let it do it's thing.  Many of my better max coins wins don't happen on the hand directly after a 4 coin win.  They happen when I'm on a deuces wild run where I can stay at max coins for 6-8 hands.  This takes a little experience to master, but these up runs are a fairly common occurrence if you play the game without modification for any length of time.  Here's a paragraph from my website that discusses this exception."The normal Cheap Video Poker Strategy says to return to single coin play after every losing max coin hand.  However, if you are riding an extended upswing of good hands and you lose a hand, consider staying at max coins for 2-3 more hands.  Many times you can keep the streak going and occasionally you may even hit a max coin quad deuce or Royal.  Just remember to cash out and return to single coin play so you don't give the casino your winnings."The Cheap Strategy combines two well established concepts and attempts to capitalize on them.   1- When playing negative games you lose less money playing single coin &  2- Deuces Wild has common short up and down runs.  I keep trying to tweak and adjust the Cheap Strategy to make it better, but it seems to be perfectly balanced the way it is.  I'm pretty sure the naysayers will be out in force against me for saying I can make this work.  I know better and I'm no rocket scientist either.   Remember, I'm not talking about a positive cash flow strategy here.  I'm talking about playing a negative expectation video poker game with less overall losses than flat betting max coins. 

[olds442jetaway]

I know what you are talking about Phil. Since Deuces is supposed to give you at least double of your bet amount every 6 hands or so, I think 3 more hands might be the magic number to bet 5 after the 4 or more hit. That way if you catch a quad on the 3rd bet 5 hand, you will still be up for that part of the sequence. As we know, quads account for quite a bit of the return on the deuces wild game.

[FloridaPhil]

Maybe.  What I think may be screwing you up is betting more than 5 coins.   The one/five balance fits just right.   More than five coins eats up too much money if you don't hit anything.   Also, you need the 1-2 & 3 coin profits to stay in the game.

[Vman96]

Nice hit! Never have hit a multiplier on Quad Aces yet in either version.   One day I hope. :(

G/f and I hit quad Aces on the same day last week on STP, that might be a first. And I think the pic below is a first for either of us. She drew Quad Aces when holding a face card. Wish it would have been the Royal...same 1 in 178,365 chance, but we would have probably been net up instead with a Royal...

She texted it to me saying "wrong game"...her being a DDB addict, but she played bonus because it was 7/5 Bonus vs. 8/5 DDB, I will admit I've taught her pretty well.



But I'm bit confused on how your wife got a 22,000+ nickel payout. Maybe she got a 3X and 8X for an 11X? That would lead to 22,330 on DDB with no full houses.

Smartphones make things so much easier with pretty pictures...