Originally posted by: Randall Ward
I've been busy but so far I've found a couple of machines I'm familiar with, and the advice is pretty much what I've come up with on my own. Maybe this weekend I'll have time to look deeper and at more machines, they're quite a few. The real problem I suspect is that it would be helpful to be where the machines are so maybe a trip to Vegas is in order. ( this is a joke, my trips are scheduled already).
It does have a section on Ultimate X I'm intrigued by, it is one of my favorite games and I often play it with freeplay. I remember a few years ago the vultures were more active, and would come by and tell you to come play this special machine in order to pump it up. Didn't work on me because I really don't like people talking to me but I did get hit up a lot, and saw other people going through it.
Ultimate X vulturing isn't very profitable, especially not for the time it consumes, because when you find that pot of gold, it's more like a thimbleful: ONE hand (or more accurately, one deal).
Maybe you can tell us. According to the book, regarding slots, how are you supposed to be able to tell a) the base payback of the game on the machine; b) how often the bonus(es) you're going for will hit? You need to know and calculate both to know how much you expect to bleed before hitting the bonus, and of course that bloodshed had better be less than the bonus, or your play was a loser and a waste of time.
I know that some people swear by slot vulturing, but unlike video poker progressive hunting, you can't tell what the payback percentage is just by looking at the machine, so how do you KNOW, or even strongly suspect, that a given situation (large bonus) is a positive play? I really can't see how, so I suspect it's largely guesswork, albeit, possibly, educated guesswork. That's not enough for me, personally. I can see people going nroke tilting at this windmill.
