Re: [vpFREE] Playing Short Coin - Dangerous OR Smart?

These are my opinions only - and I've tried some of the best short coin
parlay systems around.
a. its always dangerous , and yes - you find yourself hoping for NO-ROYAL on
those 4 card draws
b. I've got burned once on a dollar machine betting $2 got $500 RF back ,
should have been 800-1 for $1600
c. I've received 9 full pay $4000 royals , playing short coin parlay methods
where the Royal ended up while I was playing Max. Should I have played 25C
with lower bankroll ? -- no way, the more you bet over your head, the more
fun it is !
d. While I've played $2 and $5 VP short coin, I've never got a royal at
these denoms short or long play.

best wishes...Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "mikeymic" <mikeymic@yahoo.com>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 10:35 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] Playing Short Coin - Dangerous OR Smart?

> Last weekend I was doing one of my occasional inventory "surveys" at some
> local California casinos.
>
> Sure enough, near the end of the evening, I did notice in one casino that
> in an area where there had been 4 $5 machines with full-pay games there
> were now only 3.
>
> But what really caught my attention was something else I always notice.
>
> A woman seated at the far left of the bank of 3 machines was playing one
> $5 coin.
>
> My immediate reaction (which I will soon be questioning with you) was that
> the woman is clueless about VP. This could be the one night she hits a
> royal, and she will lose $18,750 by not betting just $20 more to get her
> up to max bet. What a lamebrain!
>
> Two days ago as I was recording my own result for the weekend (which was a
> loss) I began to rethink my position.
>
> In many games you sacrifice a little over a per cent or so by playing a
> full-pay game for 1 coin vs 5 coins. For example, 9/6 Jacks becomes a
> 98.3% game with one coin played vs.a max bet 99.5% game.
>
> But since all payoffs are proportional EXCEPT for the royal, maybe that
> woman was smarter than I thought. Maybe she was betting she wouldn't get a
> royal and was just trying for the best return from the rest of a paytable.
>
> Consider that elsewhere in the casino the best single-line $1 Jacks game
> probably has an 8/5 paytable. True, the one coin $5 game isn't playable.
> But it's certainly MORE playable than the $1 game IF no royal appears. And
> it's actually not a bad bet that during a session you won't see a royal!
> Sort of like betting NO PASS at the craps table, only now you get to hate
> yourself instead of everyone else hating you.
>
> If that makes sense.
>
> So I wonder how many others out there seek the safety of a full-pay game
> in High Limit and play short coin when options in the rest of the casino
> are dismal.
>
> Indeed, another "one-coiner" sat next to me a few weeks ago as I played $5
> 3 Play NSUD. Sure enough, she hit 4 Deuces on one $5 coin and collected
> her $1000 with no lights going off, no music playing, no tax forms.
>
> But a few hands later, she was dealt four-to-the royal and gasped.
>
> So did I.
>
> The odds prevailed, and the draw card was an off-suit 7, We both were
> actually "relieved", in a way.
>
> That's the flip side of betting against yourself.
>
>
>
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