Hello LVA

M has put in 10 more dollar machines insuring that one can get a seat no matter how high it gets. When I left tonight it had meters crossing $12,000. Just FYI.

that would mean that only now, at the $12,000 level, are some of the machines positive games.

didnt you say you were leaving the board?

once a liar, always a liar.

He's doing important research.

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking here. There is some slight variation in the base return of the eight different games. If you factor in the slot club, most of them cross "positive" in the $10,000 range.

Your use of the words "only now" perplex me. When I left there were meters crossing $12,000. Before I left one hit near $13,000. In the last 4 days 3 Royals in the $14,000 range have hit and one over $15,000.

My post was to let everyone know that the bank was down for the first time in days to being only about 101%.

Please feel free to ask me more about this topic if I failed to answer your question.

~FK

I would vote against anyone leaving the board. It is the divergent opinions that make it interesting. I would also vote for people sharing those divergent opinions in slightly kinder verse, but lets face facts, without differing views on things it would get a bit boring.

I certainly have no problem with people disagreeing with me, I have learned a lot that way over the years. I try to enjoy new information especially if it alerts me to something where I was in error.

The trick to making this easy is shifting one's pride from being right, to priding oneself on a willingness to be wrong. The latter is more rare and consequently a greater source of pride. There is no need to take a blow to one's ego by admitting when one is wrong. It all depends on how you spin it internally. Think, frequently wrong...and loving it!

I have also found out over the years that always trying to be right is more effort than I can muster.

"If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?"
- St. Aurelius Augustine

Careful Frank,

you keep talking like that, someone might actually learn something.

Quote from The Psychology of Poker, by Alan N. Schoonmaker:

"Here are some characteristics that most winners possess.

No. 4: Winners are brutally realistic.
No. 7: Winners admit mistakes quickly.
No. 8: Winners learn from their mistakes.
No. 10: Winners depersonalize conflicts."

You sure as hell don't qualify for #10

It says "winners depersonalize conflicts," not "winners depersonalize rampant, incessant stupidity" (aka diarrhea of the web).