Video Poker 24/7 - Video Poker Players Not Fond of New Games

Video Poker 247 - Video Poker Players Not Fond of New Games

Station Casinos has offered a new type of video poker game to their players over the Labor Day weekend, but it was met with less than enthusiastic results. Early reports show that video poker players are not very interested in having their games messed with, and prefer them the old way.

Station has a deal with IGT and Walker Gaming’s Guaranteed Play feature that will last seven months with exclusivity for Station. The idea behind the new playing strategy is that customers can buy a set number of hands in advance, instead of playing hand by hand on the video poker machines. They play with maximum coins, and therefore are eligible for the big jackpots.

However, the players did not like the new video poker machines. They said that they had to change the way they play their game with different strategies than they would have before, especially near the end of the game. They say that they could end up with a loss at the end of Guaranteed Play, but would have ended up even in traditional video poker.

The casino admits that over Labor Day weekend many of their video poker games stood empty and still do – as players are resistant to the change in strategy. However, the casino and experts think that the video poker games will end up catching on – if not merely from a marketing stand point. Experts say that they think once the concept is added to things like slot machines it will end up being much more popular.

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