Our guest this week is legendary bridge player Bob Hamman. Bob also runs a company called SCA that basically insures large unlikely events. One example would be the Pepsi promotion where someone could win a billion dollars. We welcome your questions – send them to us at [email protected], or you can find me at @RWM21 […]
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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, […]
Podcast – Big Red
Our guest this week is Big Red, a video poker player who was able to figure out and exploit the Movin’ On Up video poker game. Several features of the discussion highlight the type of things video poker players do to gain an edge in a casino We welcome your questions – send them to […]
What Can I Say?
Emails and letters from video poker players are part of my life, and often I get the same sort of question or request over and over again. Every month or so I get some version of the following: Dear Bob: I’m a huge fan of yours. I’m leaving for Vegas in nine days and counting. […]
There’s More to EV than Just EV
“EV” stands for expected value, which is a type of weighted average. The exact definition I’ll leave to the probability and statistics textbooks. As cut and dried as the definition is in the math books, there’s plenty of wiggle room in the way it’s applied to video poker. Before we discuss this wiggle room, let’s […]
Was She Talking Like a Woman or Talking Like a ...
Using stereotypes to say “women are this way and men are that way” in today’s political climate is a formula guaranteed to generate multiple negative comments. Rightfully so. There is very little interesting where you can say that every female (or every male) is a certain way. There are always exceptions. With that said, there […]
Expanding Your EV
Even the novice advantage player is familiar with the concept of EV. For the player unfamiliar with the jargon; EV stands for expected value. It is the set of equations that gives a player a way to determine what amount of money they expect to win by engaging in a particular advantage play. And more […]
Is it Guaranteed?
I recently published an article on quitting when you’re ahead which may be found here. The article referred to a particular $100,000 royal flush I hit at Dotty’s and why circumstances at that establishment led me to quit gambling there for a few months after the jackpot. Some of the follow-up comments about the article […]
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