Time Is Money In The Casino - Part 2

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If time is money at casino table games --- it's doubly so on slot machines and video poker, where we play much faster.

How much faster? A blackjack player at a full table plays about 50 hands an hour. On reel slots and video poker, I usually figure 500 hands as an easy steady pace at reel slots and video poker, and video slots with bonus rounds at about 300 spins an hour. Many play faster, and you certainly can slow the games down, but let's use those figures as averages.

Just as we did with table games, let's take an hour of play at average speed and factor in the house edge to rank the games by average loss per hour. It'd take a whole book to list all the video poker variations, so I'll just use a couple of pay tables on basic Jacks or Better as examples.

Quarter 9-6 Jacks or Better video poker, one coin: $2. With expert play, 9-6 Jacks returns 99.5 percent to the player, assuming a maximum coins, five-coin bet. With fewer than five coins wagered, that return drops to 98.4 percent. At 500 hands an hour, the $125 is wagered, with the average loss being 1.6 percent of that.

Quarter 9-6 Jacks or Better video poker, five coins: $3.125. OK, that's a little too precise, but we can be precise in video poker. At 500 hands an hour we risk $625. Note that even though we risk five times as much money as when we bet only one coin, the cost is only a little more than 1.5 times as high. That's because the overall house edge with expert play drops to 0.5 percent.

Quarter 8-5 Jacks or Better video poker, one coin: $4.88. In the "8-5" version, full houses pay only 8-for-1, flushes pay 5-for-1, and we lose about 2 percent of our payback compared with the 9- 6 game. Risk is $125, and we lose about 3.9 percent of that.

Dollar 9-6 Jacks or Better video poker, one coin: $8. Unlike slots, video poker payoffs do not vary with coin denomination. Instead, they vary according to the pay table. The cost on a dollar video poker game is four times that of the same pay table played with quarters.

Penny video slot machine, 20 lines, one coin per line: $9. Each spin of the reels costs only 20 cents, and at 300 spins an hour, you're putting $60 an hour on the line. In most casinos, the lowest coin denominations also bring the lowest percentage payoffs. Here, we'll use an 85-percent return for pennies. Some casino will offer higher payback percentages, some lower, but pennies do tend to pay less than 90 percent.

Quarter reel-spinning slot, one coin: $11.25 At 500 spins an hour, average risk becomes $125. The house keeps somewhere from 6 to 9 percent on quarter slots. If you bet only one coin, you'll get a somewhat lower percentage because the payoff on the top jackpot awards a higher percentage to max- coins bettors. There's room for much variation depending on the math of the individual machine, but let's assume a 93 percent payback with max coins played that drops to a 91 percent return with fewer coins wagered.

Dollar 9-6 Jacks or Better, five coins: $12.50. Four times the wager, four times the cost as the quarter version.

Nickel video slot machine, 9 lines, one coin per line: $13.50. Same 300 spins per hour as on penny video slots, fewer paylines, but a higher bet coin denomination puts the average wagers per hour at $135. Figure on about 10 percent as the cost of play --- a little more at some casinos, a little less at others.

Quarter 8-5 Jacks or Better video poker, five coins: $16.88: With expert play, we lose 2.7 percent of our wagers.

Dollar 8-5 Jacks or Better video poker, one coin: $19.50. Four times the cost of quarter 8-5 Jacks or Better.

Quarter reel-spinning slot, three coins: $26.75. Note that this is a better payback percentage than quarter games with one coin played, but it's still a higher cost per hour with total wagers of $375. That's something to keep in mind when budgeting your day at the casino.

Dollar reel-spinning slot, one coin: $35. Risk is $500 at a dollar for each of 500 spins. We'll assume an overall payback of 95 percent with max coins played, but only 93 percent with one coin wagered.

Dollar 8-5 Jacks or Better video poker, five coins: $67.50. The risk is $2,500 an hour. At At 97.3 percent, we get a better payback percentage than on dollar slots, but a five-coin maximum bet instead of three coins on the reel-spinners leaves the cost per hour nearly as high.

Dollar reel-spinning slot, three coins: $75. Casinos regard dollar slot players as some of their most valuable customers. With $1,500 an hour in play at games that return about 95 percent, dollar slot players usually are well-comped --- and deservedly so. pokermag.com by Mr. John Grochowski

Über World Series of Poker (WSOP):

Die World Series of Poker, oder kurz WSOP, ist eine Reihe von Pokerturnieren, die jedes Jahr in Las Vegas ausgetragen werden.

Die World Series of Poker finden jährlich im Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas statt.

Die World Series of Poker ist die grösste und prestigeträchtigste Pokerveranstaltung der Welt. Mit einer umfassenden Liste von Turnieren in allen wichtigen Pokervarianten ist die WSOP das am längsten laufende Pokerturnier der Welt und geht auf das Jahr 1970 zurück.

Darüber hinaus hat die WSOP bahnbrechende Allianzen in den Bereichen Rundfunk, digitale Medien und Unternehmenssponsoring gebildet und die Marke mit der Einführung der WSOP Europe im Jahr 2007 und der WSOP Asia-Pacific im Jahr 2013 sowie der WSOP International Circuit Series im Jahr 2015 erfolgreich international ausgebaut.

Ursprünglich wurden die Tourniere in Las Vegas Downtown im Binion's Horseshoe Casino ausgetragen. Im Jahre 2005 kaufte Caesars den Brand WSOP. Seit diesem Datum werden die Pokermeisterschaften im Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino durchgeführt.

Gewinner der letzten Jahre des WSOP-Championship-Mainevent

2020: Damian Salas 2019: Hossein Ensan 2018: John Cynn 2017: Scott Blumstein 2016: Qui Nguyen 2015: Joe McKeehen 2014: Martin Jacobson 2013: Ryan Riess 2012: Greg Merson 2011: Pius Heinz 2010: Jonathan Duhamel 2009: Joe Cada 2008: Peter Eastgate 2007: Jerry Yang 2006: Jamie Gold 2005: Joe Hachem 2004: Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer 2003: Chris Moneymaker 2002: Robert Varkonyi 2001: Carlos Mortensen 2000: Chris "Jesus" Ferguson 1999: J.J. "Noel" Furlong 1998: Scotty Nguyen 1997: Stu Ungar 1996: Huck Seed 1995: Dan Harrington 1994: Russ Hamilton 1993: Jim Bechtel 1992: Hamid Dastmalchi 1991: Brad Daugherty 1990: Mansour Matloubi 1989: Phil Hellmuth Jr. 1988: Johnny Chan 1987: Johnny Chan 1986: Berry Johnston 1985: Bill Smith 1984: Jack Keller 1983: Tom McEvoy 1982: Jack Strauss 1981: Stu Ungar 1980: Stu Ungar 1979: Hal Fowler 1978: Bobby Baldwin 1977: Doyle Brunson 1976: Doyle Brunson 1975: Sailor Roberts 1974: Johnny Moss 1973: Puggy Pearson 1972: Amarillo Slim Preston 1971: Johnny Moss 1970: Johnny Moss

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