I'm not sure if this has been addressed before or that well known, but I was walking around a new store the other day trying to find a 9/6 jacks or better machine to play through some free play.

Well, I found one. The thing is, after I sat down and looked a little closer at the machine, I noticed the bastards set a 2500 coin payout for a royal instead of 4000! The sneaky, evil bean counters!

The only saving grace was there was a real full pay 9/6 game elsewhere on the floor. I forgot to take a picture, otherwise I would have posted it here.

Has anyone seen this phenomenon? It's like 6:5 single deck, video poker style. Barf!