Ok, this has been buggine me for a while... I think I know, but I'm not sure.
If you decide to go for a bonus, with a WR of say 255 units, and decide to bet 10 units on a high-ish variance game (say VP or slots), then how should you wager the last 5 units?
What I am asking is, how should you treat the "remainder" of WR that don't fit into a bet size.
Let's say I bet 250, am 45 down, but will get a 50 bonus after I wager another 5. I could bet another 10 as usual, and potentially make a 5 loss overall or a ~30 win or so.
However, if I ramped down the bet, and played 5 units at 0.2/spin, or something, I would at worse break even with the bonus, and probably make 1-1.8 unit profit.
If i decide to bet 10, then I think that for the 5 going towards the bonus, the hous edge woule be -0.15 (with +EV bonus) and for the other 5, the HE would be normal, for an overall HE of probably 0.
Aha, is that they key? Is it just a case of working out the overall HE of the bet with half bonus and half not, and if HE<0 then bet, and if HE>0 then grind out the last 5?
What is best in the long run? I mean going from a guaranteed breakeven or better to 5 unit loss would never feel good, but in the long run, if combined HE<0 it might be the best bet?
What if you were evens, and had to bet 10 for a 20 bonus, with a normal wager of 20? In this case, your wager=bonus, so by spending half your wager=half the bonus which wont count towards any WR, is this a bad idea?!
If you decide to go for a bonus, with a WR of say 255 units, and decide to bet 10 units on a high-ish variance game (say VP or slots), then how should you wager the last 5 units?
What I am asking is, how should you treat the "remainder" of WR that don't fit into a bet size.
Let's say I bet 250, am 45 down, but will get a 50 bonus after I wager another 5. I could bet another 10 as usual, and potentially make a 5 loss overall or a ~30 win or so.
However, if I ramped down the bet, and played 5 units at 0.2/spin, or something, I would at worse break even with the bonus, and probably make 1-1.8 unit profit.
If i decide to bet 10, then I think that for the 5 going towards the bonus, the hous edge woule be -0.15 (with +EV bonus) and for the other 5, the HE would be normal, for an overall HE of probably 0.
Aha, is that they key? Is it just a case of working out the overall HE of the bet with half bonus and half not, and if HE<0 then bet, and if HE>0 then grind out the last 5?
What is best in the long run? I mean going from a guaranteed breakeven or better to 5 unit loss would never feel good, but in the long run, if combined HE<0 it might be the best bet?
What if you were evens, and had to bet 10 for a 20 bonus, with a normal wager of 20? In this case, your wager=bonus, so by spending half your wager=half the bonus which wont count towards any WR, is this a bad idea?!