Many of you know that, in addition to being posted on bobdancer.com, my columns are published on the gamblingwithanedge.com website. This site allows for readers to post comments. One recent comment by someone who used the name “Jerry,” read as follows: This is off-topic but I wanted to get your opinion on VP for […]
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So What?
The Las Vegas Advisor publishes a “Question of the Day” every day. People send in questions and the LVA gets someone knowledgeable to answer each question. Often video poker questions are shuttled my way. In a recent QOD, someone noted that they were quarter NSU Deuces players at Green Valley Ranch Casino, which is run […]
Couldn’t There Be More Exceptions?
I was having dinner with a buddy, Al, who received a text from someone we both knew, Sandy. The text showed a picture of 8/5 Ace$ Bonus Poker along with a query whether I published a strategy for it? Ace$ Bonus Poker is just like Bonus Poker, except the four aces each have a letter […]
A Lesson from Improv
I regularly participate in Thursday night workshops for an improvisation group in Las Vegas. Improv is a form of on-stage comedic acting where the scenes are made up on the spot in response to a suggestion from the audience. Although the group I go to is “clean burning,” meaning the language is suitable for all […]
The Way You Walk
Assume the following: You are a very strong player. In a particular, large casino, they only have two machines of the type you consider best. There are other players who play these same machines. When you arrive on the property, how fast and purposefully do you walk to get to one of the good machines? […]
Worried About Blowing Your Cover?
In a recent Gambling with an Edge episode, Richard Munchkin and I were interviewing “Math Boy,” a Ph. D. in mathematics who for years used that knowledge to beat casinos. Math Boy told of the time in 2003 or 2004 when he met me despite his best intentions. Math Boy wanted to stay “low profile” […]
A Story from Frank Kneeland
For the first six months of the Gambling with an Edge podcast, my co-host was Frank Kneeland. One of Frank’s claims to fame, video-poker-wise, was that he managed a large team of video poker players for two years in the early 1990s. On one of the shows, about six years ago, Frank told a story […]
I Don’t Do Mornings
For most of my life, I have worked by myself. For a total of about 12 years, I worked in an office. Two years in the 1970s in a think tank, and basically all of the 1980s in IT departments of three different organizations. In each of the offices where I worked, there was at […]
What Can You Learn in Video Poker Classes?
I’ve been teaching video poker classes for more than 20 years and periodically I address the questions: What can students learn? What do they have no hope of learning? Since the next semester at the South Point begins next week, Tuesday January 8, at noon, perhaps it’s time to address these questions one more time. […]
Playing 9/6 Jacks or Better Multi Strike
Except for the last few weeks, I haven’t recently played any version of Multi Strike. In the past, I played 9/6 Jacks or Better, 8/5 Bonus Poker, and 9-4-4 Deuces Wild Bonus in the Multi Strike variation, but it’s been so long that I felt I needed a tune-up. Now in my seventies, my memory […]
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