Feels impossible to have anything on the 10x hands other than drawing to a single card and getting 0 credits. Max tilt.

Leon,

That is one epic comeback! Sounds even sweeter when you hit it on the last day of your trip.

I played a three-play machine at Orleans (I am pretty sure) you would never venture there. Whenever you hit some combination, it was giving me three more bonus hands on the top.

I played it while waiting for my seat, for the life of me, I couldn't remember which machine or the area where that machine was or what game it was and couldn't play it again.

Things I remember:
It is a triple double bonus
It has different denominations and different number of hands (chose 25c and triple play)
It had a curve like screen, where the bonus hands were appearing on the top

Also, wanted to check with you the machines you play, where in encore are they are located.

Pretty sure you are describing Powerhouse Poker. If you get jacks or better, it gives 3 more hands; two pair, 6 more hands, trips/flush/straight/full house, 9 more hands and the straights/flushes/full houses get multipliers on some of the hands.

It is available in any game that is on the machine (triple double, double double, etc.)

I played last year at Venetian, got dealt a flush with 4 to royal so had 12 draws, and had multipliers on some of them and hit the royal twice, both on multiplier lines.

Fun game, but is very volatile.

Not only is single line more boring, it's higher variance.

Personally I think if one is playing a multiplier game you basically have to play as many lines as possible. Otherwise it's just a set up for tilt- you miss SO DAMN OFTEN. It's partly why I'm going back to more 10 line UX- 5 lines sucks. I'd rather go broke faster and at least have fun. Bleeding to death slowly is the nut low.

As Black Aces said, I think that's powerhouse poker. I don't play on anything special, just 9/6 TDB on spin poker, UX and "regular" which can be found anywhere. Wynn has better machines than the Encore overall, some of the paytables at Encore are lol bad.

10-line is a bit much for me at the start. I like to start off on 3-line, move up to 5-line if I run hot, then up to 10-line if I stay hot. I want to be on 10-line when I get that first-ever dealt royal.

lol, holy ****, what a comeback, congrats!

As always, thanks for taking so much time out of your busy schedule to write up these trip reports for us. It never gets old.

idk for this specific game/pay table but somewhat surprised you didn't go for the straight flush here

I'd love to see your math as to why you think that would be a good idea.

it's interesting, i've never had peking duck outside of peking

but looking at those photos it was quite different and entire time i was wondering if it was an americanized improvement or not

I once bricked a flush draw on a 50 play machine. I wish I still had the photo. On the other hand, I also hit two royals about ten lines apart on the same machine, holding only QJs

most of my macau poker was in the wynn

hearing of "play bj for an hour and get a free room" kind of stuff you'd hear about vegas - i decided that macau couldn't be much different and decided to inquire about that because i certainly wasn't paying like $550 a night for a basic room when i could book something down the street for $30

i asked and the person pointed over to the people at the 10k hkd min (like 1.3k usd) baccarat tables and told me those people are not even getting comped rooms


100% agree with your thoughts that they know where they stand and have probably run the numbers and found that they'll make at 70% occupancy with most of those rooms being paid for than 100% occupancy with most of the rooms comped because the room revenue alone is so much

they've also probably run the numbers and found that most people are like you, they get their comps removed and still decide to patronize them because they'd rather pay for a cabana at the wynn that stay somewhere else - i highly doubt your host was speaking off the cuff in your negotiations but instead has been thoroughly trained with how to respond to people who are threatening to take their business elsewhere

i never said i thought it would be good - was asking because leon has specifically said in the past that he doesn't always play optimally and will break made hands for the premium chase

also, with some formats, it's higher ev to break the dealt flush and chase the straight flush

i am not familiar with the format leon plays, but it was understanding that the multipliers involved put an even higher premium on chasing the elite holdings

hence the question, emphasis on it being a question

It is profitable to break a flush when you have four to a royal, but I don’t believe there is any game where breaking a flush for four to a straight flush is a profitable play.

To be fair, it wasn't a question.

yeah i can see now i didn't phrase it well

It will be in some deuces wild variants with 1-2 deuces in your hand.

For example, in Double Bonus Deuces Wild -- full pay, where the straight flush returns 60 but the flush only returns 10.

In this game, 6s7s8sKs-2x and 6s7sKs-2-2 will both have you dump the Ks to draw for a straight flush. On the other hand, 5s7s8sKs-2x is not broken at all, and 5s7sKs-2-2 will have you dump all three spades and keep only the two deuces.