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Originally Posted by Stu Ungar
Leon did Barona remove them?
They still have a few of these machines at tiny Casino Pauma. In the back near the Poker Room. Just played them the other night and ran VERY well..
They took them away around late Jan 2016 (coincidentally around the time I ran super-hot on them...). They claimed a "software issue" whereby the auto-hold feature wasn't functioning properly and they "couldn't offer a defective product to their guests (yeah right)". The autohold seemed spot on to me, or at least close enough to optimal that it basically didn't matter. So that excuse never sat well with me- all I know is that it deprived me of a version that I definitely wanted to play.
I wrote the casino manager, etc and kept receiving the same response, which again seemed like BS to me. If the autohold isn't holding the right cards, that seems like a simple programming/update issue. It's not like the optimal holds aren't well established and known to basically everyone. So months went by and I basically gave up hope. Then one day I happened upon one machine that had EDF for quarters. I played, and immediately notified the casino manager and requested more/bigger limits. Turns out, they had made a mistake on this one machine and installed it when they weren't supposed to. But now the game was up, and they were willing to bring it back on other machines.
They did (probably around June 2016), but since then the TDB bonus version would not hold the kicker with trip A,2,3 or 4 when before it did. Clearly again an easily-fixed error or a purposeful screwing of the customer. So annoying. I've played it a few times since and always run like crap- I kept track a couple of times for the fun of it and I got dealt trips about 1/100 hands over a 10k sample size, way below the expected 1/47. I'm sure it's not statistically significant with that sample, but still very annoying. And I wouldn't put it past the casino to offer a "version" where trips are dealt less frequently than the norm, if they also have the ability to toggle "hold kicker" on and off so easily. So **** them.
TLDR version- I've been getting screwed on a sub-optimal version of EDF since they brought it back, so I don't play it anymore.