This true story happened some time ago, but so far, I haven\u2019t written about it. I was playing $25 single line Double Double Bonus (DDB), rather heavily, at an out-of-town casino for more than a week. What casino, pay schedule, slot club, and promotions that made this a good play in my opinion are for another story, another day. Suffice it to say that I believed it to be a play where I had enough of an advantage to warrant playing hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you can figure out where and when this took place (perhaps you saw me — a lot of players know what I look like), please keep it to yourself. There are reasons I don\u2019t specify all the details of the game here, and please don\u2019t undermine my reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
For those unfamiliar with this game, the primary returns are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To be sure, the returns for the full house and flush were a critical part of the return on the game and my decision to play it. But those aren\u2019t a factor in today\u2019s story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Days 1 and 2 (Tuesday and Wednesday), I played a $5 game that wasn\u2019t DDB. I lost about $9,000. Day 3, a Thursday, I found the DDB game, figured it was a better game to play, and promptly lost $47,000! No fun at all. (Understatement alert!) In 2,000 hands ($250,000 coin-in), I only hit three quads, all for $6,250. I was willing to continue playing the game, but I was out of cash on hand. I had gone through the cash I had brought and the $50,000 in credit extended by the casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was planning on only playing the $5 game when I showed up and had set up a $50,000 line of credit. On a $5 game, that would be plenty. But the DDB game was five times as large with a bigger variance. It was a struggle to get my line of credit increased, but eventually I got that done. I had dinner with a gambling buddy who had hit two $20,000 royals on his trip and was willing take my check in exchange for $30,000 in cash. I was very fortunate to have a friend show up at exactly the right time with both cash on hand and enough trust in to take a check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A key part of my strategy was to visit my host at this time and ask if there was anything he could do to \u2018ease the pain.\u2019 I was down more than $50,000. Some hosts at some properties have some discretionary powers. Asking when you\u2019re behind is more likely to succeed than asking when you\u2019re ahead. I was able to get a little something that I would have not received had I not asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 4, a Friday, I hit aces with a kicker for $50,000, along with three $20,000 hands. I was only able to hold on to about $25,000 of that — but still, it reduced my trip loss by almost half. Along with the $30,000 cash infusion and the increased line of credit, I was optimistic. I\u2019m fully aware that one day\u2019s score is a poor predictor of how the next day is going to go, but I was optimistic nonetheless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 5, a Saturday, my first jackpot was a $100,000 royal flush in diamonds! Sweet! I figured I may still lose on this trip, but I\u2019m not going to get buried. Bunches of quads kept coming that day and I ended up $117,000 on the day. I was now enough ahead that I knew I could survive two semi-bad days in a row and still be slightly up. As many of you know, DDB is a \u2018heaven or hell\u2019 game, and I had experienced a bit of both of those things on the first half of my trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had not played big at this casino before, and I don\u2019t think the staff knew I was Bob Dancer — as that\u2019s not the name on my Driver License. So, I decided to use some misdirection. I had won on my previous trip playing $5 machines — and some casinos get nervous when you demonstrate a pattern of winning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although I was wearing a random shirt that day, I explained to every employee who came near how it was my lucky shirt, and I was going to wear it again tomorrow. I would shower, shave, and put on clean underwear — but the same shirt would be on my back. If I stank a bit, I didn\u2019t care!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Day 6, a Sunday, wearing my lucky shirt, I hit another royal flush. This time in clubs. I gave full credit to my lucky shirt and told them they were going to see it again tomorrow! Too bad if I didn\u2019t smell as good as I could! I held on to almost $90,000 of that jackpot and I played and played and played on all three shifts, running about $800,000 through the machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I figured the decision-maker who was in charge of determining whether or not to change pay tables might be off for the weekend. When he\/she returned Monday, the game (or perhaps me) might be removed. I wanted to play as much as I could while the game was still around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m going to continue this story next week. Spoiler alert: I eventually had to burn my lucky shirt because it let me down!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This true story happened some time ago, but so far, I haven\u2019t written about it. I was playing $25 single line Double Double Bonus (DDB), rather heavily, at an out-of-town casino for more than a week. 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