VP full pay locations?

[Bosco]

Once in the casino, can you ask where the full pay machines are? Seems like you could spend a lot of time looking at the pay schedules, especially if you are in one of the giant casinos with what seems like a million machines.
CAN'T WAIT FOR JULY!

[Andsen]

You can ASK but what you generally get is directed to their better paying machines if they don't have "real" full pay. I've found the change girls to be more open than the slot hosts. I don't think there are any FP machines at the big Strip casinos but I did read somewher about the Barbary Coast having a few and the Strat had a few last October. Last week we found full pay at the Palms, Gold Coast, Plaza and El Cortez. Most of the "off strip" casinos have a few machines but you've gotta search them out of the "losers". Also they constantly change, delete and move machines so that what you find this trip may be entirely different the next. I agree that reading pay schedules is a pain but I find it necessary. You can find lists of casinos on the net with FP but the only way to zero in is to look at the machines til you find one-which may be all that that casino has.

[VoteForLou]

In the sportsbook part of the LV Hilton casino, they have a few banks of nickle and quarter 9/6 machines.

[Bosco]

Thanks for the info. I suppose I'll have to put on my best "Bosco" face when I ask. Gotta love the Palms!

[DebB]

If you know someone with a Las Vegas Advisor
subscription, they have a monthly column
"Video Poker Lost and Found" and they talk
about games that are full pay, where they
are in casinos, which casinos are yanking full
pay, which are adding new.

I think the writers have websites, like
videopoker.com (not sure of site address) too.

[HoyaHeel]

Are most full pay VP Deuces Wild? I am just learning VP, and haven't gotten further than Jacks or Better at this point, but if most full pay are going to be Deuces Wild then I should probably start learning it!! Thanks....I'll check out the LVA as well, since I just got a birthday subscription :D

[Andsen]

I find that generally if a casino has any FP, it has both JOB and DW. If you can sucessfully learn DW you are better off however as it is the only game that has over 100% payback. My problem is I have never mastered all the DW rules for simplified play, let alone optimal. I therefore am better off playing JOB and enjoying myself. I'm probably doing better dollar wise too as I can work the rules for JOB. Go to www.casino.com/askthepro/article.asp?id=1467 (http://www.casino.com/askthepro/article.asp?id=1467) for info about which casinos have full pay DW.

[HoyaHeel]

I just took the JOB quiz on thewizardofodds.com--I thought I had been doing so well, but I only got 7 out of 12 correct. At least I'm over .500, right? Oh well, there's my lesson I need to keep plugging away.....

[bigdogmom]

There are some other games that have payouts better than 100% at full pay, including Double Bonus Poker and some Joker Poker games. JOB and Deuces Wild are probably the easiest to learn, in my experience.

Hoya Heel, do you have WinPoker? It's a keeper! And it has payout info for all the games on it (there must be 20 different games). Besides, it's just plain fun - the best reproduction of a casino game that I've tried.

[HoyaHeel]

I have the shareware version of WinPoker, which is only JOB. I also have Hoyle Casino Video poker, which has the different games but isn't as good for strategy--it's pretty good, but has a couple of oddities. But Hoyle's has a PalmPilot version so I can play when I'm waiting in line at the post office. Unfortunately, it too is only Jacks or Better.....So I guess that's what I'll continue with. If I do ok our next trip to Vegas, I can really start learning other games ;) But I may have to learn a little craps--my husband and the couple we're going with all plan to play lots of craps, and I don't want to be sequestered at a lonely VP game far away from their action smile.gif

[Bosco]

I found a good J.O.B. program for my palm called Video Poker Teacher with JOB on the palm website. I also found a cheap disc for my PC called Casino Game PAck by Masque Publishing with a good black jack, Caribbean stud and VP with J.O.B., DW and JW. Nothing fancy, but has all the tips and payout tables as well as letting you know when you screw up.

I'll be ready to go back in July! I will , however, stay away from Caribbean Stud!