Our guest this week is Math Boy, a former player who used mathematical techniques to beat the house. He speaks about a lot of promotions over the years that have been very lucrative.
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Show Notes
[00:00] Introduction of Mathboy, an AP with a PhD in mathematics
[00:39] How did Mathboy get started as an AP?
[01:21] Was Mathboy beating casinos before he got his PhD?
[02:00} Discussion of Mathboy’s early online gambling experiences.
[14:26] Discussion of potential opportunities in newly legalized sports betting markets.
[17:37] Mathboy’s unique approach to loss rebates.
[22:52] Mathboy’s story about meeting Bob in in the early 2000’s
[26:17] Mathboy discusses a 2001 play at Greek Town casino in Detroit.
[36:23] What was Mathboy’s strategy at Three Card Poker?
[42:17] South Point Casino – January promotions and free video poker classes
[44:57] VideoPoker.com – Game of the Week: Max Action Poker
[46:28] What is Mathboy’s video poker variance-splitting pool?
[53:20] Bob and Mathboy discuss their video poker speed-related strategies.
[57:04] Harrah’s New Orleans Rolex promotion.
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This was one of the best podcasts in the many years I have listened to the show. For next week’s show I was wondering if you would take a listener question for Mathboy: Nzero is a great metric for measuring convergence in blackjack. Do you have any recommendations for convergence metrics for video poker ? That is, some metric(s) that return(s ) the probability of being ahead given a particular player edge, variance and number of deal-draws ?
Or how many deal-draws does it take to be ahead for a VP game with variance V, Player Edge E (EV), and probability P. Basically any tips for references that teach about convergence in gaming.
Thanks.
Agree. One of the best. So much knowledge. This guest proves it – You can’t fake math.
Good show! As an online AP, I especially enjoyed the bits about the early only days of online casinos.
At about 19:00 you talked about three RTG casinos that had a make or lose $5000 promotion. Which casinos were these? And what year?