1 hand at 50 cents or 5 hands at 10 cents

I was at the Saganing Eagles Casino last Saturday playing VP at the bar. The bar top machines are 5, 10, 25, 50 or $1.00. Two ladies sat down next to me and started to play. The lady farthest from me was playing one credit for 50 cents. I made a comment about her only playing one credit vs. five credits which she could have done at the 10 cent level and still only be betting 50 cents. I explained about the full play for a Royal. They both looked at me and gave me a mind your own business face. I tried to help.

Todd:

Most gamblers are dumb or choose to be uninformed.

As you know, you are giving the casino more money by not being an informed gtambler.

Look at the numbers who are playing 6;5 Blackjack without a clue!!!

Doesn't pay to "help"

If its your family or good friend? Yes, offer to help. But stangers? Hands off.

My mom "helped" a man with his $10 of gambling money at the bartop VP machines
so he could get his beer Free.
That man & his lousy $10 ended up getting the RF Prog. we had been chasing for 2 days.

Nowadays when I see strangers playing One coin, and Not max?
I think............Yay! More for Me!!!! LOL

I'm always happy to let someone else pay the casino's light bill.

Hey Todd,

With the comparison of 1 coin at $0.50 or 5 coins at $0.10 (assuming that each of the machines has a 5-coin maximum bet), that is much more relevant if the pay schedules of the games at each of those levels is exactly the same.

Although I should say that no matter what the pay schedules that are offered end up paying, if the Royal Flush pays 250-500-750-1000-4000 coins across for the 1-5 coin insertion (again assuming that they are both 5-coin maximum machines), the person playing on one coin at $0.50 will be paid $125 (250 Coins X $0.50) for the Royal Flush whereas at the $0.10 level, the full coin-in Royal Flush will pay $400 (4,000 Coins X $0.10). So in the end, the question that the player should be asked would be which would you rather be paid for the Royal Flush starting with the same $0.50 starting base -- $125 or $400?

But then again, if some people after being given that information still want to be oblivious to what is actually going on, then that's entirely on them!

This makes me think of the Mark Twain saying that, "But for the fools, we would not succeed!"

RecVPPlayer

I could not agree more!!!!!

yay! more for me too

Well, I agree on that point.

However, the other side of the story is when
I'm playing BJ and some poor soul asks for my help.

It's kind of fun to see my advice turn out well.

Of course, I only do it if asked in a pleading manner. LOL

Besides these columns, I have only paid for info once, to get JOB strategy drilled into my head. However, the guru (dancer) made a good living dishing out advice to not play max coins, when the EV is negative (though I didn't pay for the advice), until early this year when he opined it's ok to play max coin. Diff'rent strokes

jmradford--- just the opposite with the VP players I know. We Always play Max coin for
whatever denom you can afford. If you don't like the EV? Don't play.

Either Play Max Coin.........or just Don't play.............keep looking.........play something else......or Don't.

Like Toddalan's example---if you can only afford 50c. Then play 5 dimes.
If you can only afford a quarter? Play 5 nickles. etc.

Nothing worse than hitting a RF with only a couple coins in.
Personally, I would start taking prisoners.....

I refuse to play that way EVER. Always--- Max coin.