Originally Posted by
PositiveVariance
Cool story Mickey, sounds like your not finished with it yet, but a few questions:
So when double time is off, you would bet 1 credit and Play the least number of hands possible?
When double time is on, play max credits and as fast as you can during the 1 minute period?
I know you said edge was 130% when DT was on. What did you figure your overall average edge was?
How long did the DT game last in that casino as well as others?
The hourly rate depended on how fast the double times were coming. We were just learning this system. Basically flying by the seat of our pants and dead reckoning how it worked. We seen clues and thought about them. We traded information on what we thought was going on.
When they first put a system up the double times came fast because they were trouble shooting any problems that arose. But once they thought everything was okay they would tweak the system down.
We had to figure out when to play. If you played in the dead of night you weren't going to get any double times. We figured that was because there were no ploppies playing.
We figured there was a money pool that was based on the total action the machines were getting. That a percentage of the handle was going into the pool.
No ploppies playing meant no double times. A lot of ploppies playing meant lots of double times.
Then, if a lot of money was payed out in a double time the next double time would be slow to come even with a lot of ploppies playing. That was to let the money pool build up again, is what we thought.
So the hourly rate could be nothing or in the hundreds of dollars an hour.
On the 9/7 bank betting one coin every ten seconds I figured the wager to be $90 an hour with a 3% drop (because of getting 250 for 1 on the royal), or a little less than $3 an hour to keep a machine qualified.The cost was actually a little less because of the minutes the double time took up.
While I was in Vegas everyone left the 9/7 play and moved on to better things. But I thought the best way to play the thing was team play it betting max coins to create more double times. It was a breakeven game between double times playing max coins. But I kept my mouth shut about it because I never liked team play. To much bullshit going on and I don't like commitments.