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New Spin Poker DeluxeTM has 20 pay lines and maximum bets of 5 to 30 credits per line.
Of all the slots in the casino, video poker has a special appeal, a ording casino players the opportunity to use skill and exercise choice to in uence the outcome of their slot play. Video poker machines combine poker and the exciting features of video slots—fun
bonus rounds, and multiple line winning potential with more opportunities to receive those elusive Royal Flushes!
While slot machines can trace their history back to the turn of the century, video poker has a recent past. About thirty years ago the enterprising gaming inven-
tor, and eventual founder of IGT, legendary William “Si” Redd, came up with the idea of using poker, the grand old American card game, as the basis of a slot machine. He created the slot as a novelty, thinking
it would be fun to play before gambling at the tables, and a diversion from fruit and bar slots then in casi- nos. us video poker was born. In the late nineties
Action Gaming founder, Ernest Moody created the video poker multiple-game phenomenon, Triple Play PokerTM complete with touch screens
and stereo sound. Players took to
the idea immediately of playing three hands of video poker simultaneously. Since those two seminal events,
video poker games have permuted with up to
100 hands per screen, and include multi- line, multi-denomi- nation plays and exciting progres- sivejackpots.
ere are many di er- ent varieties of video poker, most based on ve-card draw. e clas- sic triumvirate video poker plays include Jacks or Better, Deuces Wild, and Joker Poker. Each one
of these famous three games demands a
unique strategy. (See page 19 to read about video poker expert Bob Dancer’s strategy tools.) And each has been packaged in the well-known and ubiquitous multi-play Bonus PokerTM series that includes Double Bonus PokerTM and Double Double Bonus Poker®, and the best-known Draw Poker series that feature Triple Play, Triple Play and Five Play, Ten Play, Fifty Play, and Hundred Play slots.
But this month we pro le some of the newest and exciting multi-line video poker slots coming soon
to Southern California casinos.
Spin Poker DeluxeTM
Spin PokerTM was the rst video poker game to e ectively mix poker strategy and the excitement of video-slot-style multi-line game play. Players found
“spin- format
the nine-line ning card” delivered
excit- ing slot action and challenged theirvideopoker skills.Foryears the game has
gained a faith- ful following.
Spin poker is like three video poker machines in one. It’s a cross of Triple Play Poker with a video slot. It has three-lines
showing and the cards are “spun” on wheels like on slot machines.
You can play up
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