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Station Casinos Issues Notice to Redeem Its 8 3/8% Senior Notes Due 2008

traditional casino gaming offerings such as video poker , slot machines, table games, bingo and race and sports wagering. Station owns and operates Palace Station Hotel & Casino,

Acadia Parish votes on whether to allow off-track betting

to have no more than 50 video poker machines at the new facility. Roland Boudreaux, owner of Frog City Travel Plaza, has fought the proposal. Frog City has about 38 of the 400

Player's Edge: Binion's offers daily cash drawings through February

Fridays (locals only, $1 and up video poker excluded); Gold Coast (Club Coast): 2x Monday; Key Largo (Players Club): 3x every day through Monday; Nevada Palace (Players Circle): 2

Jokers Wild Strategies

 
First up, and most important, the full-pay Jokers Wild (JW) pay schedules will be 7 / 5 machines, 7 coins for a full house and 5 coins for a flush. There are two versions out there: one returns money on a pair of Kings or better, the other requires at least two pair before there is a payout.




The former is the more desirable full-pay version.




These strategies for Jokers, unlike Jacks+, reflect the wild card, a 53-card deck, and the different payouts. This game is almost as volatile as Deuces Wild, where original 5 cards dealt are discarded more often than Jacks+.




If you do not hold the joker, keep three cards to a royal over a pair of aces or kings because of the higher payout. You could catch another ace or king and still be paid.




If three cards are consecutive cards for a straight flush, i.e., 5, 6, 7 of hearts, discard other cards even a small pair, for the higher payback. If not consecutive, keep the small pair.




Don't be afraid to hold the joker alone. More than 3% of the time, you won't be able to connect with a straight, flush, straight flush, or a high pair; however, holding the joker only can give you four new cards, and a win.




They don't throw you out of a casino as they do Blackjack counters but the casino can and will shut down machines that have been hammered for wins, and take it away. Those "temporarily out of service" signs do not necessarily mean a slot mechanic is on the way, rather this VP is headed for the dumpster, and permanently out of service.




Don't get me started on casinos that install the short-pay, downright stinky versions of VP's that target the uneducated player - outrageous!




And, there are quite a few casinos out there, probably near you, that deliberately install fewer VP's because most casinos are mandated that games of chance with skill involved must have higher payouts. Therefore, slots impact the casino's bottom line in a more profitable fashion. You will also receive more slot card points towards comps at a slot machine that any VP version.




Video Poker Made Easier (Winning Strategies for Serious Players) offers more information for all VP's including newest versions. Writing this book about a favorite casino game, was a labor of love--a fun game with serious payouts. In the end, may all your VP choices turn out to be "royalty".

Loss of power can lead to romance, or not

back-to-back-to-back episodes of Seinfeld while playing video poker on our computer. Well, that and not having running water. And the water thing turned out to be big. When I

Notes from the neon babylon

few especially enterprising gypsy men invented video poker , then founded Incredible Gypsy Technology, Inc. (or IGT), well, it wasn t long before the old ways became slices of

Casino won't get a welcome mat

could install as many as 50 video poker machines. Some council members said a casino boat and a video poker truck stop are much different forms of gambling, noting that dozens of

Bipartisan promises in Salem still need to yield...

rnor's recommendation of adding line games to video poker machines and earmark the increase for state police. There may be other responsibilities of the state that are more

Pendergraph pushes for ban on video poker

Mecklenburg County inmates pushed in illegal video poker machines. With a whining crushing sound, 105 machines were chewed into bits. Mecklenburg County Sheriff Jim Pendergraph

Video poker machines seized in Oregon County

say the machine seized was a video poker machine. 'The prosecutors in each county involved will decide if charges will be pursued in the matter,' Clark said. As of press time, no