Losing a progressive jackpot?
March 18th, 2011 at 9:52:13 AM
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I had recently went to a local casino that had a progressive jackpot that made the poor payout I think almost worth it to play. I played the progressive for hours racking up some decent wins that kept in the game but not the jackpot. My question to proficient vp players here is do you make decisions differently about chasing the royal for the progressive than you would normally. I won't get into the particulars of how I didn't hit the progressive but will say a walk up played the machine I jumped from earlier. He hit it almost immediatilly after he walked up.
March 18th, 2011 at 10:01:55 AM
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You have three different questions here:
1 - If you were just walking by, or were about to leave the poker machine area; when the jackpot is high, do you play (or continue to play), until it gets hit?
2 - If the jackpot is high, do you adjust your strategy?
3 - Would blackchipjim have won if he stayed at that machine?
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1 - That's a personal choice.
2 - No strategy changes are required. If you're dealt a flush, that happens to also be four to a royal, you discard that extra card every time, regardless of how high the jackpot is.
3 - No. And there's no reason blackchipjim could not have won at the machine he switched to. And there's no reason to assume that the other player would have won if he picked a different machine. Bottom line: The machine was not "Due". That player was simply lucky to have hit the button at the exactly correct milli-second to get the winning hand.
1 - If you were just walking by, or were about to leave the poker machine area; when the jackpot is high, do you play (or continue to play), until it gets hit?
2 - If the jackpot is high, do you adjust your strategy?
3 - Would blackchipjim have won if he stayed at that machine?
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1 - That's a personal choice.
2 - No strategy changes are required. If you're dealt a flush, that happens to also be four to a royal, you discard that extra card every time, regardless of how high the jackpot is.
3 - No. And there's no reason blackchipjim could not have won at the machine he switched to. And there's no reason to assume that the other player would have won if he picked a different machine. Bottom line: The machine was not "Due". That player was simply lucky to have hit the button at the exactly correct milli-second to get the winning hand.
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March 18th, 2011 at 10:26:14 AM
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Quote: DJTeddyBear2 - No strategy changes are required. If you're dealt a flush, that happens to also be four to a royal, you discard that extra card every time, regardless of how high the jackpot is.
Suppose you get Jh, Jc, Js, 10s, Qs. Do you keep the three of a kind or do you keep the three to a royal?
Usually I'd keep the jacks. But with a high enough progressive I wouldn't be so sure.
I apologize if I'm too thick to understand the situation.
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March 18th, 2011 at 11:06:34 AM
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You are not too thick. If the jackpot is $1,000,000,000 then you would likely keep 2 to a royal over the 3 of a kind. Add another zero or 2 and you would keep the ace of hearts and discard your 4 of a kind. There is an exact value to the royal bonus when your strategy will change. It is above my abilities to tell you exactly what that would be for the situation you present, but I'll bet there are many on this forum who can tell at what bonus level you would dump 3 of a kind to try for the royal.
