Casino Player July 2022

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Casino Player America’s Premier Gaming Magazine print • mobile • online VOLUME 33 • ISSUE 2 P R E S I D ENT & CH I E F E X E CU T I V E OF F I C E R Derek James P UB L I SH E R & E D I TOR I A L D I R E C TOR Lisa Robertson-Dziedzic P R O D U C T I O N D I R E C T O R Diane Stevens-Gillan S E N I O R E D I T O R S Sean Chaffin

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Reversible Royals & More Was reading“Once in a Lifetime”article in the March issue, and I’ve had two things happen in a casino I’d like to share. It’s been a few years now,but the first one was when me and a friend went to the change machine and I put in a $100 bill.Expecting to get five $20s back, I was shocked when I looked down and saw the first bill on the stack was a $100. I knew something was up, so I didn’t look around or at the camera, just told my buddy“lets go now,” so we walked away into the casino. I pulled the bills out of my pocket and had five $100 bills instead of five $20s. The second time, I sat down on a $5 Red White and Blue 7’s machine. I wasn’t looking and I just put a $100 bill in the machine.It was two coins so I hit the spin button and didn’t hit, but I looked at the credit meter and there were 118 credits instead of 18 like there should have been. I’m guessing the previous player left the credits on the machine. I had no idea how long they were there. I played down to the 100 credits and cashed out. Right or wrong, I kept the money both times. On another subject, I have a question about the progressive reversible royals ma chines. I just returned from Vegas and I no ticed quite a few of these games in mostly quarter denoms with monster payoffs for the R/R—I’m talking about 50 to 60 thousand dol lars. So, my question is: Are the odds of 1) drawing a rev. royal or 2) being dealt one much greater than the normal 40 thousand hands? I would imagine with the size of the payouts it has been a really long time before anyone hit one. —KimT. Via the Internet When such windfalls occur, please keep in mind the casino can take steps to recover its money. In many states, steps include crimi nal prosecution.No lectures, just an alert. As far as Reversible Royals go, there are 120 ways to order a royal flush.Only two of them qualify for the reversible jackpot. The royal cards must be on screen in the order 10-J-Q-K-A or A-K-Q-J-10. If no strategy adjustments are made to account for card position on the initial deal, a game that yields a royal once per 40,000 hands would yield a reversible royal once per 2.4 million hands. Odds on royals and reversible royals vary with odds and strategy, but Michael

Shackelford offers a guide at wizardo fodds.com . He calculates that if adjustments were made, you’d see a reversible royal about once per 1.9 million hands. Multiplay Video Poker RNG I enjoy your magazine very much, especially letters from readers! My question relates to 100- or 50-play video poker.Are there 100 or 50 individual RNGs running or not? Many times when dealt 2 pair there are no full houses,which seems very unlikely and I’ve be come skeptical! —Mary Via the Internet To the best of our information, a single ran dom number is used, but with up to 100 sep arate draws. If you’re playing 50 hands and hold a pair of 9s, a pair of 5s and discard a 10, the RNG selects a number that corre sponds to one of the other 47 cards for hand No.1, selects a number from that full 47-card set for hand No. 2, and so on. The odds are exactly the same if 50 sep arate RNGs are used to select numbers cor responding to cards in 47-card sets.On each hand, you have a 4 in 47 chance of com pleting a full house. In an average draw, you’d see a frac tion more than four full houses in a 50-hand play, but you are an underdog for a full house in each individual hand. Frequent draws with no full houses are normal.Those draws are balanced by times you drawmore than four full houses—sometimes many more—in your 50 hands. Earning Points If I’ve been playing slots the night before and I’ve lost most of my bankroll,say $2,500 or so, am I better off having breakfast and just going home or do I stay and just play a couple of hundred dollars more and then leave? Basi cally, what I’m asking is,will I be downgraded because I didn’t play much the next day? And if I decide to just leave, is it okay to use my comps and not play at all?

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