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 […]
Podcast – guest Ed Miller #7
This week’s guest is Ed Miller, poker author and player. His new book is called The Course. podcast Click to listen Alt click to download
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 […]
Podcast – guest Bob Loeb
Our guest on the show this week is attorney Bob Loeb. Bob is based in Chicago, and is the coauthor of Blackjack and the Law. On this show we talk about a case of some players who beat a Keno machine to the tune of $1,200,000, and then had 80 felony charges brought against them. We […]
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 […]
Podcast – guest I. Nelson Rose #4
The guest this week is professor I. Nelson Rose, author of, Gaming Law in a Nutshell, and Blackjack and the Law. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
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 […]
Podcast – guest Jeff Hwang #2
This week’s guest is Jeff Hwang, author of Pot Limit Omaha Poker. We discuss Limit Omaha Hi Lo as well as developing new casino games. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Shutting Down Machines
There was a post a few weeks ago on vpFREE that said: “To all of you cretins that shut down machines – that’s not the right thing to do and I NEVER shut down any machine. I even tell others not to shut down machines and let others play. If you need to put in […]
An AP play worth 6 figures
Since I am only 29 I don’t worry much about social security. But I have a lot of friends who are around 60, and they will be facing choices on when to start taking their social security benefits. Turns out that just like any game, the people who really understand how to play are going […]
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