I was playing 25\u00a2 Ten Play 9\/6 Jacks or Better at the Palms. For some promotions, it’s the best game at that casino to play. They have a strange rule at the Palms that the number of drawing tickets you earn is based on the lowest denomination games on the machine you are playing — rather than the game itself. For example, if you play a 25\u00a2 game on a stand-alone machine you earn half as many tickets per coin-in as you do on the same game which also has penny or nickel games on the same machine. If I play the $2 9\/6 Jacks or Better game I only receive one-fifth as many tickets as 25\u00a2 Ten Play.<\/p>\n
A player I hadn’t seen for a couple of years, “Joe,” came up and said, “How the mighty have fallen!” The last time he had seen me I was playing $5 Five Play, which requires ten times as much coin-in as does 25\u00a2 Ten Play. I didn’t ask him what he meant by his comment, but I assume he was referring to the change in stakes. Probably Joe believes when somebody cuts their coin-in by 90% then there must be a losing streak or bankroll or confidence problem.<\/p>\n
Joe didn’t ask me why I was playing that machine. I don’t think he cared. He just wanted to tell me what he’s been doing the past two years.<\/p>\n
In my case, I’m not on a losing streak and my confidence and bankroll are just fine. If I want to play intelligently at the Palms, however, I need to play lower stakes than I would otherwise prefer. That’s just the way they set up the games there.<\/p>\n
The higher stakes machines are significantly tighter than 9\/6 Jacks and\/or do not qualify for promotions. For the rest of this week they have gift cards (worth 0.33% up to $63,000 coin-in a day, Monday through Friday). That’s one promotion that I’d have to give up if I were playing in the high limit room. They also have drawings three days a week — which is another promotion I’d have to give up if I were playing in the high limit room. That’s a lot to give up just for playing the stakes I prefer.<\/p>\n
There are players who insist on playing one game only. I don’t want to do that because different casinos have different opportunities. In the past six months I’ve played 9\/6 Jacks or Better, 9\/5 Jacks or Better, 8\/5 Bonus, 8\/5 Bonus Multi Strike, 9\/6 Bonus Poker Deluxe, Double Bonus Deuces Wild, 9\/6 Double Double Bonus, 9\/6 Double Double Bonus Quick Quads, NSU Deuces Wild, and a few different progressives. Sometimes single line. Sometimes Hundred Play. Often somewhere in between.<\/p>\n
Occasionally for stakes as low as $5 per play. Occasionally for stakes as high as $250 per play. It all depends on what game is available, for what stakes, and with what promotion.<\/p>\n
It’s not my purpose in this article to either be bragging or complaining. I’m just stating what I do in order to succeed. If you can succeed with a different formula, that’s great. But this Is what works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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