what is long term video poker play?

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Arc wrote: "Why does money care about "long term" play? It's a meaningless term."

Gosh, I just thought it was interesting. And how can you call it "meaningless" when there are so many discussions about strategy and odds and payoffs "over the long term." Isn't it interesting to know what is the long term?

Or are you going to say that a mile can also be 5,168 feet? And an hour can be 58 minutes?

I find it quite ironic that the advocates of math, the cheerleaders of the importance of long term play to justify pay tables, would discount the importance of knowing what constitutes long term play. If it does take trillions of hands to match the expectations of a paytable, randomness and "luck" become more important. Thank you for the information. As a non math expert, I had no idea there were so many different combinations of five cards on a video poker screen.

What part of 25.8/(1.0076-1+.0025)^2 = 25.8/.0101^2 don't you understand?

alanleroy... The formula cited by Arcimedes includes cash back. Where does cash back come into what constitutes the long term play needed to see all the possible hands in video poker???

What is the problem with accepting that it takes 19 trillion or more hands to consitutie long term play? Please spell it out.

The definition of long term play is tied to the paytables, too. One could invent alternative paytables, all paying 99%, that would have different definitions of what constituted long term play.

Long term for me means 4 days or more. Otherwise I park in short term.

Thank you very much

I see "long term play" only one way: the number of hands needed to see all of the possible combinations. Wizard of Odds says there are more than 19 trillion combinations. arcimedes points out that you may have to sit through even more than 19 trillion hands before you will see all of them because of "repeats."

if you dont see all 19+ trillion different hands, you haven't seen them all.

If you only walk 5,279 feet you haven't walked a mile.

Now if this causes a big problem for some of you, Im sorry.

Seeing the number of all possible combinations does not equal long term. It depends on the game. My definition of long term is playing enough hands such that your results approach theoretical with only a very small insignificant difference.