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Originally Posted by bef99hwk
Pretty sad all of the games are **** in my area, except $1+ min bets for double bonus and bonus poker that I probably can't afford
If the games have low expected returns in your area, there are two other ways you can make up for low ER's and even be positive.
One is progressives. Next time you go to the casino, check out the progressives and see if they, a., have them, and b., reach the break even point or at least close to it (make the game 100% return)...one example, quarter 8/5 Jacks or better, is a 97.3% return by itself, but if the royal progressive reaches $2166.50, your at 100% return. (You can get a nice list of break even points for many games on the wizard of odds site). For dollar games, just times by 4.
Another way is to find out what your slot club is worth. If it's good, say, 3 dollars cash back per $1,000 coin in, it's worth an extra .3 on your return...going back to the 8/5 JOB example, it would go from 97.3% to 97.6%...but on multiple point days, it can go up. If say, a 5x point day, it can go up to 98.8% for example.
Maybe this helps. But if you have to play these low ER games, just have fun with it. Or save up a roll and travel someplace with good ER's and take a whirl. The good news is, if your lucky and hit a royal, a royal is a royal no matter what the full house and flush pays.
Cheers
P.S. If it makes you feel any better, on my last 10 sessions of quarter Full Pay deuces wild (100.76%) return with a whopping .025% slot club cash-back, I have the play down pretty good and I'm down on the game about 500 dollars in the last 10 sessions. So ER isn't everything. Negative fluctuation sucks no matter what game you play.