I regularly read “how to win” discussions from a variety of disciplines. I was recently re-reading David Sklansky’s The Theory of Poker and came across the following: “Any time you make a bet with the BEST OF IT, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually […]
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Casino Credit — Good news or Bad?
If you can prove to a casino you are worthy of credit, they’ll lend you interest-free money. Frequently you don’t have to pay it back for thirty days–sometimes longer. How smart is it for you to use this casino credit? First of all, you have to assume that the casinos provide credit to players because […]
More Tails from the Jungle
I’ve used the “animal versus animal” jungle metaphor to describe video poker in the past. Let’s play around a little bit more with that analogy today. Some people think of the casino as the lion in the jungle and the players as the smaller prey, but I don’t think of it that way at all. […]
More on Using the Double Up Feature
There was a thread on videopoker.com recently discussing whether using the double up feature on a video poker game changed the return on the game. The general consensus among the knowledgeable posters (whom I respect) was:
Should Have Kept My Mouth Shut
I participate in a study group of bright gamblers. You’ve heard of Richard Munchkin who often attends the group. The others are not particularly well known to the general public and even if you’ve heard of them, for the most part they don’t want their names bandied about. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, there were […]
Almost
Over this past Mother’s Day weekend Bonnie and I attended a square dance convention in Reno. It’s a better than average convention, but the real attraction is that Bonnie’s daughter lives in the area. We arranged a long Mother’s Day meal/visit before flying home. The dance itself is in Grand Sierra Resort. I haven’t established […]
Going Broke
Recently on vpFREE, a man (I think) with the pseudonym “nightoftheiguana” (NOTI) posted “I think Bob Dancer has admitted to going bankrupt at least once. Perhaps he can say something on whether or not it is something he would risk doing again.” (NOTI regularly posts knowledgeable information regarding the Kelly criterion and various alternative strategies […]
A Strategy Improvement in 9/6 Double Double Bon...
Creating good video poker strategies is as much art as it is science. Someone suggested to me recently that my 9/6 Double Double Bonus Quick Quads strategy was unnecessarily cumbersome. I ended up agreeing with him and the results are found below. He told me I could publish this if I wanted but under no […]
More on Auto-Hold
Not too long ago I wrote an article about the auto-hold on Oregon lottery machines that was pretty poor. See it here As stated in that article, I felt that the manufacturer had no obligation to guarantee that the hold was optimal unless such a declaration was posted somewhere on the machine. Comments I read […]
A Strange Play in 9/6 Double Double Bonus Quick...
I periodically check the wizardofodds.com strategy calculator to make sure I’ve gotten every one of the special cases mastered. The format used in that application isn’t as user friendly (to me) as I’d like, although I’m sure that for some players it is easy to understand. For example, in discussing the hands where there is […]
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