Longest Streak Without A Royal Flush?

Not only have I never had one playing real money in a casino, I've never had one practising on my computer!

Never.

But I should add I only started playing on our last trip in November after reading up about it a bit.

Looking forward to our trip next month.

I got one in Vegas in October at the Palms...and I am due for ANOTHER!!!!

The honest answers in this thread should be conclusive evidence to the novice that one CAN NOT make a living off VP in 2011.
Don't believe the charlatans with fake names who will peddle books, strategy cards, software, lessons and other trinkets telling you it can be done.
Learn a couple of high paying games, play them at affordable stakes and enjoy the comps and free booze as a recreational player. You can get all the strategy cards and software you need for FREE online-don't send a dime to the crooks with fake names who could sell ice to the Eskimos.

I estimated my longest streak at around 200K hands. That was 13 years ago and I did not keep good records so it's pretty much an educated guess. I have gone 225K hands without a RF at SouthPoint (BobOrme must have got mine). However, I have gotten pretty close the right number of RFs over the years.

As for Mike's "conclusive evidence to the novice that one CAN NOT make a living off VP in 2011", what a bunch of nonsense. Even with my bad streaks I have made a profit for the last 9 years and 12 of 13 since I started playing proper strategies. You don't have to buy anything from folks that provide VP products but that doesn't make the products scams or the people "crooks".

There will always be some people that don't play as well as they think they do and need to blame others for their own problems.

The honest answers in this thread should be conclusive evidence to the novice that one CAN NOT make a living off VP in 2011.....q]

Wondering how you manged to make this jump?

You haven't heard the flip side to this post....what about the people who have a large number of RF's annually?

I would agree that playing quarter DW would makes a job at McDonald's look like a career advancement but why are you constantly so dismissive of people being able to make a living or at least supplement their income with a paying "hobby"?

Dan

Got a royal on the first day of my first trip tp Vegas. Had no idea what happened, when the lights & bells went off. All of a sudden I had new friends with their palms out

Went several years until the next one

October 2004. First and only one!

The only way I can see anyone making a living from VP, is for that person to hit and run, and even then I doubt that they could really make a living doing it.

I think it depends on how you define "making a living". There are plenty of people here who are making $40-50K/yr. with the majority of it tax free and not paying for food. I'm not suggesting that this is living high on the hog but at the same time, there's 15% unemployment in the conventional job sector so given the alternative, it isn't bad.

There are at least six days a week where a person with tenacity and skill can make $25/hr. playing vp here in Vegas. It's not a lifestyle fit for everyone but I can assure you that it exists and is reality for a fair number of people. I find it funny when people say "no one can make a living playing vp". Perhaps it's their perception but that doesn't mean it's reality.

Dan