Originally Posted by
accountinquestion
Originally Posted by
SLaPiNFuNK
The problem with these games, you HAVE to hit big hands with multipliers to even begin to start to realize the extra 0.5% edge. These games are fun, but you will lose your ass hard or hit something like a 64K royal...
Most people are going to be long broke before they hit the very very longshot payouts needed to realize those edges.
I don't really agree here.
Since the variance comes from the multiplier, which applies to ALL payouts, big and small, this isn't the same as waiting for a highly unlikely event to occur.
I'll give an example.
Let's say there was a game called Trillionaire, where it's a normal-ish video poker game, with two twists. First, it has a random number which pops up on the screen for each hand, between 0 and 199,999,999,999. If the number ends up as 77,777,777,777, then you win a trillion credits on your 5-credit bet. You would hit this once every 200 billion hands on average, so this would add 100% return to the game (because you'd get a trillion credits for every trillion credits wagered, on average!) Then, in addition, the video poker paytable would be shitty but still return 70% of your money on average with perfect play. The EV on this machine would be HUGE -- 1.7x on every dollar wagered!
However, this would be a horrible game to play. Why? Because you'd never get in the volume to ever hit the trillion. (Let's also say that there was only one of this machine, so large teams couldn't take advantage of it!)
Double Super Times pay isn't like this. There's just a shitload of variance, to where you might run way ahead or way behind at any point.