Learning video poker

I am using Videopoker for Winners. They gave me 2 or 3 different licences to use it on different computers. I have one travel computer, one in my office, and a replacement device. It's fantastic. The software lets me play and shows me the mistakes I make. I write down my mistakes and work on it not to do them again in the future. No matter how many cheat sheets you are using, it doesn't help much if you are not aware of your weakness and work on it until you master the difficult hands. Every single mistake you make adds up to a bigger cut in return in the long run. Also, you will miss cards from time to time because you get distracted, tired, etc. Sometimes it's a sticky button that doesn't hold the card the way you want it. Summary: Even with year long practice my game is not better than 99 per cent accuracy. I still take it and play because it's still the best option in the casino as long as they give me points and comps from time to time.  However, without hitting your share of Royals over the course of time you will be on your own. 

If I ever get a really bad head injury and forget how to play video poker, I hope I find this thread.

Hey Dan! Just use the Bob Dancer strategy cards! They're great, accommodate different loss tolerances, and HP still sells them!

lasvegasadvisor.com/shop/product-category/gambling-how-to/strategy-cards/

Oh, and look BOTH ways next time!

Yer Pal,

Pre-Brain-Injury Dan

99% accuracy is perfectly fine, and I doubt if ANYONE hits 100% anyway.

In a difficult decision hand, where the proper play isn't intuitively obvious, the cost of a mistake is usually 0.01 bets or less. Like if you were playing DB and held a J instead of J987. The other relevant factor is how often a given problem hand comes up. If it's rare, the cost of getting it wrong, even every single time, is trivial.

So if 1% of the time, you make a strategy error, and when you do, it costs you 1% of a bet, that means that every 10,000 hands, you're losing one bet. That would, for example, degrade your return on NSUD from 99.73 to 99.72%. This would not be grounds for seppuku.

Back in the day, when good promos were everywhere, like mushrooms after a spring rain, I had a couple of AP friends who would rather have played 1200 hands/hr with 99% accuracy than 800 hands/hr with 100% accuracy. I understood where they were coming from and when playing promos with a fixed amount of coin-in (such as earn 10,000 points and get a Golden Commode propellor beanie), I agreed with their philosophy. There is an opportunity cost to playing VP, after all.