I have a trip booked for Las Vegas May 28th – June 2nd. The outbound fare was a little high at 13,698 points (about $205) and the inbound flight was a bargain at 2500 points (about $42). I get a lot of emails from Southwest and one advertised one of their many fare sales. I […]
Posts in category Advantage Play
A Lesson Relearned
Today we’ll have a personal anecdote about what happened to me recently. I’m not sure how widespread my situation is, but perhaps some of my readers will relate to it. I’ve been gambling at video poker since 1994. For the right promotion, I’ll go any time of the day or night. To make this work, […]
Quitting While You are Ahead — Does it Wo...
Recently, a poster on the videopoker.com forum wrote words to the following effect: “I have no doubt that if I could ever learn to quit while I was ahead, I’d be far ahead at video poker, even though I play games returning only about 99%.” Let’s look more closely at that statement. Assume you’re playing […]
Who Are the Patrons?
On our February 4 Gambling with an Edge podcast, Anthony Curtis brought up something that I had experienced, but not understood why it was happening. With some notable exceptions, numerous Las Vegas casinos have really tightened up. Slot clubs are less generous. Promotions are smaller. Games aren’t as loose as they were. In my opinion, […]
Two Stories
I have two brief things that came up recently and are worthy of writing about, but neither is sufficient to fill up an entire blog. So, I stacked them together. Hope you don’t mind. New Rules I was playing dollar 9/6 Double Double Bonus, with four progressives. I hit the aces hand for $844 and […]
Using One Strategy for Two Games
The mathematical analysis in this blog was done by Rick Percy. I do not have the tools to do that analysis myself. Thank you, Rick! My personal goal is to learn the best strategy for every game I play. Not everybody shares that goal. Some people want to minimize their work, or don’t have the […]
Killing the Golden Goose
There are some excellent video poker opportunities to be found from time to time in Las Vegas. When these are found, good players rush in to take advantage of them. After a few days or weeks of getting pounded, casino slot directors decide that they are tired of this, so they remove the promotions, the […]
Is It Worth the Risk?
I was playing a $1 9/6 Double Double Bonus game with multiple progressives. The royal was at $5,400 and aces with a kicker (AWAK) was slightly above $2,300. The other two active progressives, which reset at $800, had been hit in the previous half hour and had not yet risen much. The numbers made the […]
Tonight’s the Night!
Listeners to the GWAE podcast know that Richard Munchkin is one of my favorite storytellers. When a guest on the show takes us through memory lane, it sometimes jogs one of Richard’s stories and I just sit back and listen with enjoyment. With that in mind, Richard’s brother Jake made a long post on Facebook […]
It All Adds Up
A friend, Jake Jacobs, posted in passing on a Facebook page recently that he’d been active in car rallyes in the Chicago area way back when. Some of them were time-speed-distance events where you were timed and crossing a checkpoint 30 seconds early was as bad as 30 seconds late — but both were better […]
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