Online Monopoly for cash(95% luck?)

[Tharpab]

The virgin games have online monopoly
for cash butis that game all luck?I just
cant see any skill involved(besides collusion techniques
ofcourse =)

[Al Mirpuri]

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The virgin games have online monopoly
for cash butis that game all luck?I just
cant see any skill involved(besides collusion techniques
ofcourse =)

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The skill lies in accumulating a set of properties before your opponents, focusing your financial resources on them through building houses and hotels which when landed on will knock other players out of the game. The luck is that once everyone has built on their properties then it is a crap shoot meaning that whoever gets the best dice will win.

However, the luck to skill ratio is not as finely balanced as in backgammon.

[illunious]

It's not actual Monopoly, just a Monopoly themed casino game.

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When you take a trip around the Monopoly Board, you'll win more than Monopoly Money! Just place bets on your favourite properties and then roll the dice. Land on your chosen spot and you win! Or land on a bonus spot for extra excitement and rewards.

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[MrGo]

I like that 2 of shrooms /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[housenuts]

trust me, monopoly is a game of skill. i play at work and would say i win at least 75% of the games. there is definitely strategy to it. however, i think once you have a good grasp of the strategy there isn't much more to learn so if you are playing with a bunch of well versed players then luck would be more of a factor.

there is actually monopoly strategy books. i was reading one that i found at my aunt and uncles cabin last summer.

of course you have to know 7 is the most commonly rolled dice number. that factors into some decisions. also the book listed in order the most likelihood properties would be landed on. this is derived from dice roll combinations and from advance to... cards from community chest and chance. i think another big factor is to never buy houses unless you can buy 3 for each property. the rent difference between 2 and 3 houses is huge and with 2 it's not really worthwhile because people would have to hit your properties 3 times to get the money back for it.

there is also more strategy involved when you play by the monopoly rules. in most home games if you run out of houses or hotels people allow you to make your own out of coins or whatever. in the real rules you can't do this so sometimes it is strategic to leave 4 houses on a property so your opponent can't buy any because there are none left.

lastly i don't buy railroads or utilities. they are a waste of money and properties are much better. however often when playing with stupider people i will buy these because i know i can trade them for a property or for extra cash.

people often won't trade you a property if it will give you a monopoly. but if you have one of a colour, and the 3rd of that colour is still on the board then i usually always try to make a deal for the 2nd of that colour from whoever has it because you have a good chance of landing on the 3rd one yourself and bingo, you got a monopoly.

last advice, when you are in jail late in the game...stay there! there is no sense paying to get out because you still collect money when you are in jail and you don't have the fear of landing on someones property. but you have to come out if you roll doubles or on your 3rd turn, but you may as well stay for as long as possible.

[craig r]

he is talking about a casino game, not the actual monopoly game.

craig

[Sponger15SB]

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he is talking about a casino game, not the actual monopoly game.

craig

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still that was some pretty good advice

[Al Mirpuri]

In England during 1968 there was a train robbery that has been named The Great Train Robbery. The robbers stole £2,500,000. This was a lot of money during the 1960s. Anyways, the robbers played Monopoly with real money in their hideout. One of the robbers had a film made about a few years back, it was called Buster. Another robber, hid out in Brazil for thirty years.

[Michael Davis]

I'm not sure about your wait to build three houses strategy. Particularly if you are saddled with only one Monopoly, say the Park Place/Boardwalk group, by putting up one house on each, when somebody lands on the property, you can then buy another house. There is no real quick way to accumulate money in this game, so if you're short on cash, you have to build slowly.

-Michael

[Tharpab]

I reffered to the board game, but the advice
is still mainly luck, you cant
'want' to stay in jail, you go in there and get out
purely by the dice, and trading cards is almost impossible
I used to play online and as soon all properties where bought nobody would trade anything so no houses could be made, some sort of bubble, everntually someone would go broke and the auctions would start

[rjc199]

Most of this is right, but I can't disagree more with the statement that railroads are worthless. The railroads are easily in the top 3 set of properties (behind BW/PP, the reds, and maybe the oranges).

There is a website that talks about the best properties to own in terms of EV and other strategies (like the 3 houses thing).

Like poker, monopoly seems to most people to be all luck, but in the long term it is all skill.

[Nottom]

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there is also more strategy involved when you play by the monopoly rules. in most home games if you run out of houses or hotels people allow you to make your own out of coins or whatever. in the real rules you can't do this so sometimes it is strategic to leave 4 houses on a property so your opponent can't buy any because there are none left.


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This is certainly my favorite monopoly strategy.

[Al Mirpuri]

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Most of this is right, but I can't disagree more with the statement that railroads are worthless. The railroads are easily in the top 3 set of properties (behind BW/PP, the reds, and maybe the oranges).

There is a website that talks about the best properties to own in terms of EV and other strategies (like the 3 houses thing).

Like poker, monopoly seems to most people to be all luck, but in the long term it is all skill.

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Neither poker nor Monopoly is all skill. They are both a mix of the two.

The railroads are not worthless but their value decreases as more and more properties are built. In the early game they are useful but their value becomes negligible in the endgame.

[Daliman]

My favorite monopoly strategy which i've never seen anyone else espouse is to trade High value props like Blue and Green for Lt blue and cash early in the game, especially if it gives them a monopoly on any of them, I can often get far over face value for them. Then I can hotel them all for a mere $750 while it costs them $200 per house for their properties. Then, when they hit my property, which they do like 2/3rd's of the time, i think, they usually have to mortgage some because they often spend tons just to get houses on Boardwalk, etc. Works likea charm, and I have NEVER lost a game HeadsUp when employing this strategy and the opponent makes the trade. Also, in HU matches, i tend to shy away from low side properties for house value reasons.

[Al Mirpuri]

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My favorite monopoly strategy which i've never seen anyone else espouse is to trade High value props like Blue and Green for Lt blue and cash early in the game, especially if it gives them a monopoly on any of them, I can often get far over face value for them. Then I can hotel them all for a mere $750 while it costs them $200 per house for their properties. Then, when they hit my property, which they do like 2/3rd's of the time, i think, they usually have to mortgage some because they often spend tons just to get houses on Boardwalk, etc. Works likea charm, and I have NEVER lost a game HeadsUp when employing this strategy and the opponent makes the trade. Also, in HU matches, i tend to shy away from low side properties for house value reasons.

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I am familiar with this strategy but you have to judge your opponent's finances and the other caveat I have is that it is not worth following as a fixed strategy.

[MrGo]

Monopoly for real money would be very interesting. I would love to do it for 25% of what the actual prices are - bdwlk would be $10 instead of $400.

How would one keep the bank though? Say you have 4 players - would they all contribute to the bank to start the game?

[Al Mirpuri]

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Monopoly for real money would be very interesting. I would love to do it for 25% of what the actual prices are - bdwlk would be $10 instead of $400.

How would one keep the bank though? Say you have 4 players - would they all contribute to the bank to start the game?

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I have played Monopoly for small cash sums. However, it was a fixed rate for the win of the game not x per monopoly dollar.

[Oski]

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lastly i don't buy railroads or utilities. they are a waste of money and properties are much better. however often when playing with stupider people i will buy these because i know i can trade them for a property or for extra cash.



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That is smart advice, but you open yourself up to a "rope-a-DOPE." A savvy player would sucker you into thinking he is a moron so that you will buy the utilities.

BAYAM! Not till later in the game will you discover your folly!

[SevenStuda]

Leave this topic alone, leave it to the pros.

-Dimitri