Originally Posted by
BoSox
What are the opinions of playing Full Pay Pick-em poker machines that are available in one casino that I play at?
Pretty good. The game comes in at 99.5% and has a single-coin variance of 15 (by comparison 9/6 JOB comes in at 19.5) and the discard strategy is pretty easy to learn. Please keep in mind that since the premium hands like a SF and a royal are much rarer relative to non pick-em standard counterparts like JOB (the variance in the upper part of the pay table is higher and the variance in the lower part of the pay table is lower than standard VP to round out the total variance of this theme), you do often get a feeling of getting slowly ground down (I guess you could say that about other VP too ;-)). IMHO, I think it's a decent choice for ABCing your free play or getting enough points on a free play day to qualify the free play (other decent ABC choices are 3 hand JOB, 3 hand Bonus Poker, etc. if they have "decent" pay tables).
Best, TP.