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

Unless your wad is thicker than a Foster's can, short coin strategy is the better strategy anyhow. What is short coin strategy? Always hold a suited kicker with three royal cards and never hold a suited Ten with a single high card, instead just hold the high card and go for trips, boats, or quads. The variance is less than even Pick'Em Poker.

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tomflush" <tomflush@...> wrote:
>
> 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@...>
> 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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> >
> >
>

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