Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
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Why do I play 8/5 Bonus instead of 9/6 Jacks? Well, it's because there is nothing so frustrating as to get quad aces or quad 2s, 3s, or 4s and find out that they pay the same as quads 8s or quad 9s and so forth.

Since I am a recreational player I want to get a little thrill when I play.
Last week, at the Horseshoe Indiana, I was waiting for my friend to arrive. I noticed that all the banks of VP that I usually play were out of service. They have a lot of machines so there were still a lot of games to play, but the 4 banks that I mainly play were all out of service. So while waiting for my friend I sit down at a plain old $! Bonus game and get 4 aces on the 1st hand. I look at my balance and it's only $245. So I look at the pay table---they had reduced it to $150 for all quads on that bank. That bank had previously had the normal pay table.

So now I'm thinking that they are reducing the pay tables on all the out of service games. Next time I go there, I will definitely verify the tables before playing. If they are further reduced from an already bad game, GOODBYE!!!