calculusfan asked:
I’ve been to a casino once. All those slot machines confused me, with pictures and a lot of numbers. Different machine, different pictures and numbers. What I want to know is are those numbers and pictures important? If yes, how do I interpret them? I heard a lot about JoB FP VP, but how do I identify these machines? Is there any website with pictures of the slots and the name? Thank you.
What does it mean by Full Pay? Are all the machines Full Pay?
Angel
I’ve been to a casino once. All those slot machines confused me, with pictures and a lot of numbers. Different machine, different pictures and numbers. What I want to know is are those numbers and pictures important? If yes, how do I interpret them? I heard a lot about JoB FP VP, but how do I identify these machines? Is there any website with pictures of the slots and the name? Thank you.
What does it mean by Full Pay? Are all the machines Full Pay?
Angel
Tags: Las Vegas Casinos, Slots, Vp
Brad
to tell you the truth, they are basically the same, you just have to hit the right one at the right time… if you play video poker, look for the machines with the best pay outs for full houses and four of a kinds… always play max. coins on video poker ( adjust the denomination to what you can afford ) just play for fun and you’ll be better off, and don’t spend money you can’t lose,( because you most likely will lose, that’s just how it goes ) have fun and enjoy!!!
Anita
VPFree has some photos but mostly of winning jackpots rather than the pay tables.
To figure out the paytables for a machine you have to touch where it says “Pays” and then check to see if that paytable is favorable or not.
If the game returns your bet for a pair of Jacks or better, pays 2 to 1 for a 2 pair hand, and 9 for a full house and 6 for a flush, then it is a FP or Full Pay 9/6 JOB. You check paytables at the single coin line but you should only play at the maximum coin level which is almost always 5 coins unless it is an old machine.
FP JOB is actually a 99.54% return game which means that if played long enough, you would expect about 99.54% of your money back. However, that assumes that you hit a royal flush as part of the long term return. I have hit 2 royal flushes within an hour but some people have gone 3 years without a royal so the return on video poker is subject to a lot of variance.
Video Poker machines look alike. It is possible to see a machine that is full pay or pretty close to full pay right next to a machine that has a poor pay table. I was at Harrah’s and saw a 8/5 machine and a 6/5 machine.
The only way to tell them apart is to look at the pay tables. There is a book by Jean Scott that has a lot of paytables and whether they are good or not. However, you probably need to know the correct strategy as well. Bob Dancer and Jean Scott have good software for this. If you get Bob Dancer’s course and carry Jean Scott’s book into the casinos you will be far ahead of most players.
Beatrice
Slot machines are basically the same, you put in money and if you win you get money back but in the end the odds are with the House and you lose.
Full pay means the machine pays you. It does not “freeze” and wait for an employee to come and hand you the money. New machines have ticket-in/ticket-out which means you put in paper money (not coins) and when you stop you get a piece of paper, a ticket, you take to the casino cage for your money.
How to pick a machine? There are poker machines, there are various games from movies or shows, there are plain match the symbol ones. Find the one that you enjoy and play it.
Christina
It is kind of like the best luck of the draw. Find one that you enjoy and just have fun loosing your money!
Michelle
Find one that entertains you .. remember its called gaming not gambling here. They are so wild now that you have no idea if you won or not unless they tell you you did. Slots have been known as mindless gaming .. you don’t have to think or make a decision .. just push the button or pull the lever. Fun Fun Fun.
Gregory
Full pay - This term is generally used to refer to
9/6 JOB - 99.5%
10/7 DB - 100.2%
JWKOB(Jokers Wild Kings or Better) - 100.6%
FPDW(FP Deuces Wild) - 100.7%
If a machine “short pays” any line of the pay schedule, then it is obviously not a FP machine.
9/6 JOB is listed even though it is not a 100% game, because it’s the easiest to learn, and if you combine CB(cash back) and incentives at some casinos, it is a 100% game. JOB has the lowest variance among the VP games “generally” you can play for a very long time(with say $50 on a .25c machine >$1.25 per hand