To Dan regarding your challenge: Suppose your opponent in this challenge finds a full pay machine? Is your challenge still on? And are you making this challenge because you, yourself, don't believe anyone can make a profit playing video poker?
Here's what you wrote, Dan, and it makes no mention that a poor pay table is required... you just gave the option for playing a poor paytable:
"Come to Vegas, find a vp game that you like to play (remember, the crappier the pay schedule, the easier it is to win, right?), play 30 hours at a minumum of 500 hands per hour and we'll match your results with real money. If you're a winner after that time, I'll double your winning. However, if you lose, you now owe me an equal amount of your loss. Pick any game/denomination/location you'd like. I'll be here waiting.....it will be the most lucrative play in town for me."
In order for you to make this bet/offer it seems to me that you, yourself, believe that video poker cannot be beaten? I would think that even Arcimedes would want to take this bet? Certainly Dancer would!
