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VP Strategy Calculator

I ran across a couple playing an IGT VP machine in the high limit room in Vegas for YouTube. The machine had denoms of $2, $5, $10, $25, $50 & $100. The max bets would be $10, $25, $50, $125, $250, & $500. The Royal Flushes would pay $8K, $20K, $40K, $100K, $200K, & $400K.
The games were Classic Games:
Bonus Poker
Bonus Poker Deluxe
Deuces Wild Bonus Poker
Deuces Wild
Double Bonus Poker
Double Double Bonus Poker
Jacks Or Better
Joker Poker
Triple Bonus Poker
White Hot Aces

With the pay tables I screenshotted I painstakingly tried to figure out what the HA of the games they were playing (not all of the games were played) and came out anywhere from 96.25% to 99.0%, it just depends what game they selected.
I know there's a similar machine in my area but it's only a 25 cent, 50 cent, $1 machine on the floor, with a $1, $2, $5, $10, $25 version in the High Limit Room.
So if I ever get around to playing them for whatever reason, I have this handy link to fall back on to get the basic strategy and the HA of the game from the pay tables.
They started with $5K, and lost over $500 playing at the $5 level, then switched up to the $10 level and pulled ahead with a $2K win on quads. They were far enough ahead they tried the $25 level and won over $3K in about 3 minutes, so they cashed out ahead. Some games drained their balance faster than others and it does take a bigger win like quads to catch them up, but they have the luxury of changing their denom significantly.

https://wizardofodds.com/games/video-poker/strategy/calculator/

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