A month or so ago on vpFREE a poster asked why I don’t play progressives. I thought about my answer for a while and decided to write about it here. Before I start, I should say I “usually” don’t play progressives. There have been exceptions, which I’ll mention.
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An Invisible Promotion
I recently wrote how I played during the $600,000 July Money Madness promotion at the South Point. To summarize, there were two progressives running at all times during the month. One between $10,000 and $25,000 — where, in addition to the one lucky winner, all players playing with a card inserted when it hit received […]
Concentrating on the Deltas
While most of my video poker play is done in Las Vegas, I do have a few out-of-town plays which I like. I go back to some of them again and again. Unfortunately, publishing what and where would be a death sentence for the games.
Working a Promotion That’s Hard to Figure
This past July, the South Point ran a “$600,000 Money Madness” promotion for the second time in 2015. A very similar promotion was run once in 2014. It’s reasonable to predict that we will see this promotion again sometime down the road. They have the software to run this promotion, so they just might run […]
A Change in Strategy
In July of this year, Gold Coast Casino in Las Vegas ran a “second royal in five days gets paid double” promotion. While that particular promotion inspired this article, that promotion had a particular set of rules that I’m not going to address. The promotion I’m going to propose today doesn’t exist — it never […]
Not as Close as you Think
I recently read that Colin Cowherd was leaving ESPN radio after being a personality there for 12 years. His morning show aired from 7 a.m. – 10 a.m. in Las Vegas. I’m not always up at that time, and I don’t always listen to the radio when I am, but I probably caught 5% or […]
Keeping the Story Straight
If your personal philosophy requires you to tell the truth 100% of the time, and anyone who doesn’t is going to hell, you’re not going to enjoy this article very much. I married Bonnie, the widow of a career United States Air Force officer, in May of last year. Our planned European honeymoon needed to […]
An Instantaneous Professional
A version of this article was originally published in 2008. As I’ve progressed in my video poker knowledge and experience, I answer some questions differently. Therefore, I’ve changed several things in the article. Not long ago I received the following email from someone I didn’t know: Mr. Dancer: I recently inherited some money. I’ve decided […]
Risk and Uncertainty in Video Poker
In May 2000 I was a guest in the home of my brother Dick and his wife Lisa, who at that time lived near Houston, Texas. My then-wife Shirley was off on a women’s religious retreat and I chose to spend time with Dick and Lisa rather than being a temporary bachelor in Las Vegas. […]
How Hot Do You Like It?
Let’s compare two different games that return almost the same amount — namely 9/7 Triple Double Bonus (TDB) and 9/6 Jacks or Better (JoB). The percentage return is often considered to be the “bottom line” figure. I intentionally picked two games where the percentage returns were very close. If everything else were equal, I’d recommend […]
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