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Bingo That’s Vegas-Style Video Poker!
PokerNanza Next Big Thing In Gaming
By Gary Loebig: Video King Gaming Consultant
OMAHA, NE – For many facilities, the one big hole in the gaming options they offer their players
has been the availability of a true Class II Video Poker game. By this I mean a Class II Video
Poker game that has the look, pay table and play action of a Class III, Las Vegas Video Poker
game.
There have been many attempts at creating a Non-Class III Video Poker game, but they have
fallen short in their ability to attract Video Poker players, primarily because of their play action and
decision-making deficiencies. Meaning, players cannot change their Video Poker cards to get a
better hand – as evidenced by the players’ inability to throw away a winning hand.
Case in point, Washington State. The compacted games the tribes play there include a version
of a Video Poker game. It has the look and pay table of a Video Poker game – but not the play
action or decision-making of a Las Vegas Video Poker game.
You see, the Washington system is based on the concept of a lottery scratch ticket game, where
all wins and prizes are predetermined. In the Washington Video Poker game, a sixth card is dealt,
a Wild Card called a Genie Card, in addition to the normal, five-card hand. This card is used by
the game to automatically correct player mistakes.
Take for example a player, who has a winning hand in a “Jacks Or Better” game, say a pair of
Queens that would pay 2 credits, along with a single King and an 8 and a 9. If the player attempts
to better his hand and the associated prizes, but makes a mistake and discards one of the
Queens, this results in the player throwing away a winning hand.
At that point the game would automatically reveal a Wild Card, the Genie Card, which in this
case will be a King, which results in a DIFFERENT winning hand (two Kings) that restores the
SAME “Jacks Or Better” prize amount, the 2 credits that the player would have won before he
threw away the original winning hand (the two Queens) that he was dealt.
In essence, the player cannot lose the original winning prize amount nor can he/she better his/her
hand, nor better the prizes he/she could have won, by changing playing cards. True Video Poker
players see this and understand that this is not the Las Vegas-style Video Poker game that they
want to play, and refuse to play this game.
This is just one example of an attempt to create a Las Vegas-style Video Poker game that is not a
Class III game.
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So, bottom line, to attract players, the facility needs an authentic game. Like the players, the
facility also desires a game with the capability that allows the player to throw away a winning
hand, but for a different reason.
The reason is profitability. While good players like the opportunity to better their hand and to
increase their chances of winning a prize or a better prize, the house counts on players, who are
not good players, players who make mistakes and play sub-optimally, to increase the facility’s
profits.
So, if a “Jacks Or Better” full-pay game is a 9/7 game, with a 97.5 percent theoretical payout, then
poor play lowers the actual payout substantially, maybe to an actual payout of 92 percent or 90
percent, or even less. This means the win for the house could increase from 2.5 percent to 8
percent or 10 percent or even more, equivalent to the win from some spinning reel games.
In the Class II market, there has never been an interactive Class II Video Poker game with the
look, pay table, and play action of a Las Vegas Video Poker game, until now!
Meet PokerNanza®. It is a Class II game with all the attributes of a Class III game. It is Bingo,
but looks, plays and pays like a Class III, Las Vegas Video Poker game. Plus, it has huge
jackpots or progressives – in the tens of thousands of dollars – in addition to the standard “Jacks
Or Better” prize payouts, and a Bingo Prize payout.
Additionally, it is interactive and designed to be linked between sites for multi-site, multiplayer game play.
And, it plays fast. Play of 300- to 500-plus hands per hour are achievable, depending on how
good the players are at making card-playing decisions.
Hardware wise, PokerNanza has been coupled with the latest tablet technology,
the CHAMP-e™ gaming tablet by Video King. This hardware advance makes the game “player
portable”’ and ideal for facility bars, buffets and Bingo halls, areas that are often underutilized.
The game also has the necessary legal opinions, lab approvals and patents to support a facility’s
regulator in the classification determination process.
PokerNanza is a real win! For Bingo and Video Poker players, Indian Country and Bingo halls –
anyone seeking to fill the need for a Class II Video Poker game. A Bingo game with a large
existing player base.
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aboard luxury cruise liners, throughout Indian Country and in thousands of charitable, commercial
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