A while back I was playing some exciting no limit holdem at the Tropicana and called in early position. There was no preflop raise and I said to my friend Steve, who was sitting next to me, "I have the best hand right now." Six players saw the T55 flop and I said, "I probably still have the best hand." It was checked around.
The turn was another ten, and I laughed cause I had quad tens. But it was a bad card for me. I had the Royal Brass Brazilians, but anyone slowplaying a five on the flop now liked his hand a lot less. Someone with a smaller pocket pair than mine probably wouldn't lose his stack by making a boat on the river. I had the deck crippled. And there was no high hand jackpot at the Tropicana.
Some places you get a bonus, usually between $50 and $600, for making four of a kind or a straight flush using both your holecards. But not at the Trop. The only place where it's actually worse to make four of a kind is the Bellagio. At the Bellagio not only is there no high hand jackpot, but if you have the audacity to ask if you get a bonus, the dealer will call a floorman who will come over and regard you with withering disdain and say, "Fuck you."
If you don't like a particular guy or think he's a jerk or whatever, instead of saying it in simple everyday language you can say of him, "Welcome to the Bellagio, Sir. May we tell you about our High Hand Jackpot?"
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Put in a Christmas Day session at Aladdin, a not very noteworthy session. I played basic A-B-C Tight and won $190.
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Of course, all those high hand and bad beat jackpots do is tax every player and reward a few players for what is essentially a random event. In other words, they make the game more luck and less skill.
You have a point but it is not that simple.
First off, jackpots make the game looser. Some players will say they had to call because they had a jackpot hand.
And at Ballys, Paris and Harrahs the money from a high hand goes right on the table. It's in play. In no limit that's important cause some nights you'll see a lot of jackpot chips in front of players who won't keep those chips very long.
I simply think the High Hand Jackpot is the Governments way of bating us to "live the dream". I mean I have not gotten a high hand Jackpot in so long Clinton was still President and Saddam Hussein was alive.
The last time I did hit one was when I was at the Bellagio and the ass kicking I received for getting it was one that I will not soon forget.
I think I may start at revolt against the High Hand Jackpot and encourage a "Best Bluff Payout. This would work similarly to the way the High Hand Jackpot works except it is paid on a sliding schedule, bluff down a Pot with 2-3 off suit High and win a prize. I think this is the way of our Poker Future.
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