We have no guest this week. Bob and Richard answer questions from our listeners. We always welcome your questions so post them below, or send them to us at [email protected].
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Show Notes
[00:32] Should you go on a kamikaze mission and retiring from AP once and for all?
[06:17] Should you get mailers in local address P.O. box v.s. out of state P.O. box?
[07:45] The proper length of VP session
[10:43] VP heat in Europe and hollywooding jackpots as a cover move.
[12:52] Richard’s game selection criteria
[15:24] How to make other VP players to go away
[19:00] How to deal with a casino employee knowing your full name before you have given up your identity.
[22:03] Do you think there are still decent sidebets?
[23:15] Milking hole carding games/ how to approach hole carding games
[24:57] How do you use Beyond Counting?
[28:18] How is the casino rating you based on the different machines you play?
[29:30] Richard and Porno films in Korea
[30:53] Over and Under side bet. Is this worth pursuing?
[31:50] Who is the better ping pong player? Bob or Richard?
[32:36] Poker player wondering validity of card counting and how to validate his skill level as a card counter
[34:30] Does having Wizard of Odds strategy charts get you barred?
[37:05] The mathematical background of Bob and Richard
[40:00] Worst thing that a friend or a partner has done to Bob and Richard?
[43:00] Would Richard rather be an AP right now or in 1960’s?
[44:10] What’s the nicest comps you have received?
[47:46] What’s keeping you profiting from the next Don Johnson?
[52:20] What’s the nastiest backoffs you’ve had?
[56:42] Richard, how many other people have you taught some form of AP to?
[58:53] When playing high-denomination games, when you’re basically getting W2G’s every 2-5 minutes, how does all that paperwork get processed at the end of the session?
[59:45] Richard’s AP idols when he started
[1:02:54] strategy changes to Ultimate X for less than full-pay machines
[1:07:39] Richard’s general criteria for adding an AP for his team
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First of all, thank you for reading and thoroughly answering my question. It’s something I never heard discussed before pertaining to video poker.
As for the question by the 30-year-old considering burning his casino bridges, one thing that was not brought up is the guy’s apparent hubris. How, at his age, does he know for sure that in 10, 20, or 30 years he will still be so financially secure that he will never again need his gambling skills to fall back on and, in essence, survive?
I wanted to offer further comment on the PO Box question as it relates to the decision to play as a local or an out of town guest.
I’ve found that most casinos outside of Nevada have one batch of marketing which doesn’t make a distinction between local and out of town offers. This often means they offer hotel rooms to people living within 5-miles of the casino and they send offers which must be collected twice a week to people living more than 500 miles from the casino. The differences between local versus out of state offers is usually not my reason for wanting to present myself as a local.
My primary reason for being a local is to avoid the suspicion associated with presenting an out of state ID. If the ID is from a neighboring state, it’s probably not an issue. However, if I’m presenting a Washington state ID to some remote destination which is not known for its tourism, it is going to raise some red flags.
There are a few places who do not send any mail out of state. This might mean they’re willing to send mail to someone who lives 200+ miles to the east in the same state, but won’t send mail to someone 50 miles to the south in a neighboring state. To avoid the potential of getting burned by such nonsense marketing principles, I usually prefer to have a mailing address in the same state as the casino.