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Tell Me About High Roller Casino

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9 years ago


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#24 9 years ago
Quoted from pinball_keefer:

I'd be more inclined to use cheat game on craps since it's purely random, and you can affect your success at poker by hitting the right targets.
In BTB, it's all shots but the slot machine ramp (moving ramp all the way down). It does build faster the longer you go, but after the super, all 4 shots light to recollect the super. So you're much better off building a higher value and collecting it 5x than locking out the build phase at a paltry 10-20M or so.
Every triple jackpot in smmb increases the super from 5->15->30->50x. So it's about holding off on collecting the super until all shots are made. I guarantee you this is not as easy as it sounds.

Not that I'm trying to speak for Keefer (I wouldn't *dare*...), but one of the things that makes BTB so great *on location* is that the risk/reward quotient is so much more in-your-face than it is in the home setting. Here's why:

When you start BTB, it's important to know that getting your first BTB Super Jackpot *also* lights Special at the associated standup target. This is a *very* interesting dilemma on location, then: if you're like me, and you like to hear that knocker as often as possible, you definitely want to get that Special lit quickly, since you never know how long you'll actually be able to keep that multiball going, and if you never collect your BTB Super Jackpot, Special doesn't actually light. *However*: if you decide to collect your BTB Super Jackpot early in order to light the Special, you're forcing yourself to forego the massive points available on your first "round" of BTB Supers (the 5 250M shots which would equate to Keefer's figure of 1.25B). You're stuck with a very low, very limited score in that first round, and you *must* collect all 5 shots before the whole shebang resets and you can start building the value again. As you can imagine, it's important to build the value high (for points) on the initial round because you have that ever-so-important ball save timer on, giving you plenty of time to hit the three other major shots (Slot Machine ramp not included) to build that value up to the 250M. It is *so* satisfying when you do it...believe you me.

In a non-location environment, the Special has no major value at all (I don't honestly even remember what its point value is if you set Special = points in the settings), but suffice it to say that it's very ignorable in the home setting, for the very reason that games are free, and the knocker doesn't mean as much. As a result, the risk of not lighting the Special isn't there, and it's quite obvious that the points are the goal.

Especially for on-location play, this is a great, great balance of risk/reward.

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