I recently wrote that I had hit a $120,000 royal flush at Dotty\u2019s in October. I mused that possibly the plug had been pulled on my welcome as I had hit a number of big jackpots there in the past. Several readers responded that surely my time was up there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In November, I received no mailer at all. I looked at this as a \u201cpossible sign\u201d of the end of my welcome, but not definitive. In October, my mailer was for $1 a week for the first three weeks, and a whopping $2 for the fourth week. I left them uncashed, except for cashing one of them on the one day I went in to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The usual pattern at Dotty\u2019s is that your mailers reflect the amount of play and your win\/loss for the past four months. My previous big hit there (a $40,000 royal) came on June 23, so I figured I could start playing again on October 24 — which I did, with spectacular results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Usually when you get the $1, $1, $1, $2 mailer from them, it means it\u2019s your last mailer until you play some more. It\u2019s very likely my play in October was after the cutoff for the November mailer. So, the fact that I didn\u2019t receive any mailer at all didn\u2019t necessarily mean I\u2019d been cut off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On November 28, though, I received a $1, $1, $1, $2 mailer for December, not to mention a coupon for a Dotty\u2019s logo holiday coffee mug!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m not planning on collecting any of this mailer, but it was very nice to get. It means I\u2019m not cut off. In March, I\u2019ll begin playing again. I\u2019ll play heavily one day in late March (perhaps $100,000 coin-in or so) and wait to see what happens in May. If I\u2019m getting a mailer (which is roughly 0.4% coin-in, except immediately after a royal flush), it\u2019s a decent place to play. Along with their other promotions, even 9\/6 Jacks or Better is a positive game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll play 9\/6 Jacks or Better for $50 per hand. That way, only hitting the royal has the potential of cutting me off. If I\u2019m playing Deuces Bonus for $150 a hand, there are numerous hands which put my welcome in jeopardy. So while the Deuces Bonus is a better game if I could continue to play uninterrupted and still get the mailer, that\u2019s not the way it is at Dotty\u2019s. One jackpot of probably $15,000 or higher brings your mailers down to miniscule amounts for four months. So the 9\/6 Jacks or Better game for the smaller amount is actually the better play. I need to play for at least $48 a hand in order to receive W-2Gs for all quads. Cutting back to, say, $5 per hand and not risking ever being cut off would be a losing proposition because a significant amount of the value at Dotty\u2019s comes from the bonuses you get on W-2Gs. I wrote about this more extensively less than a month ago should you be interested. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ll skip playing in April (in addition to giving them no action in December, January, and February). When (if) a decent mailer comes in May, I\u2019ll resume my normal amount of play. If such a mailer does not come, I won\u2019t play there anymore. Without a mailer, the house has the advantage in that game and that\u2019s not for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Still, the miniscule mailer I received for December was very encouraging. To me it means I\u2019m not cut off. At least not yet. That may well happen in the future, but so far at least, I\u2019m still in their good graces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I understand that whether or not I am still welcome at Dotty\u2019s is basically of no concern to any of my readers. Still, how I evaluate and interpret information as I receive it is part of the process that I\u2019m attempting to convey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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