Video Poker – Page 30 – Las Vegas Advisor

Posted on December 31, 2019August 24, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 5 Comments

When to Hold a Kicker in Double Double Bonus Progressive

Competent Double Double Bonus players know that from a hand like A♠ A♥ A♣ 4♦ 7♠, the correct play is AAA and not AAA4. Players might be tempted to hold AAA4 because four aces with a 2, 3, or 4 (a kicker) in this game receive 2,000 coins and four aces with any other fifth card “only” receive 800 coins.

Sometimes, however, there are one or more progressives on this game. If there is only one progressive, it’s usually on the royal flush. The second progressive goes on four aces with a kicker (AWAK). There can also be progressives on aces without a kicker, and sometimes other hands as well.

Posted on December 24, 2019August 24, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 14 Comments

How Would You Do It?

On the videopoker.com forum, a player recently wrote about coming across a quarter Five Play Super Times Play machine that consistently had a 5x multiplier. Every hand. He milked it for 45 minutes or so for almost $4,000 and left — happy to get away undetected.

Let’s say, however, that you want to milk the machine as long as it lasts. How would you go about doing it?

Posted on December 17, 2019September 18, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 16 Comments

Cruising on a “Contaminated” Ship

This past December 1-8, Sunday to Sunday, Bonnie and I cruised the Mexican Riviera aboard the Norwegian Joy. We have taken this same cruise at the end of the year several times because:

1. Our main purposes in cruising are relaxing and dancing, so the ports aren’t particularly important.

Posted on December 10, 2019August 24, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 10 Comments

Checking the Meter

I’ve found a bank of four machines where sometimes the progressives are playable. I’m intentionally changing the details a bit because I wish to instruct players but not give away the exact location of the play.

As is my wont, every time I think the progressive is high enough and I’m the only player (which is a common occurrence for graveyard players but not so common for daytime players), I check the meters. For a machine with one or more progressives, I write down the amounts, $20 through the machine, and then I see how much the meters has changed. If it’s a 1% meter, the sum of the meters will have gone up 20¢. If it’s a half-percent meter, 10¢.

Posted on December 3, 2019August 24, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 6 Comments

You Want Me to Play to Lose $100?

I was playing 25¢ Five Play 9/6 Jacks or Better Multi Strike at the South Point during their “Half Price Amazon Gift Cards” promotion in November. A friend, “George”, sat down next to me. And later still his wife joined us.

I didn’t notice how much George put in to start. Early on he hit a $1,000 royal flush on the bottom line and then later a $250 four-of-a-kind on an 8x line.

Posted on November 26, 2019August 24, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 3 Comments

Multiple Drawing Entries

There are many casinos with promotions where the player can earn extra drawing tickets during certain periods, such as 5x tickets during 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Fridays, or perhaps 10x tickets all day Tuesday.

To the player, whether 5x drawing tickets is worth more or less than 2x points depends on the value of each. You can usually figure out exactly how much 2x points is worth and it will always be an estimate of how much 5x drawing tickets is worth.

Posted on November 19, 2019August 24, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 19 Comments

Dealing with Money

I recently received an email from a slot director with whom I’m friendly. It read:

I’ve had a number of customers ask me what banks in Las Vegas are gambler friendly, meaning they understand how “professional gambler” is an actual profession and as such, banks would be used to multiple deposits, withdrawals etc. in varying amounts and timing.

Posted on November 12, 2019August 24, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 15 Comments

An Exception to the Rule

If someone were attempting to describe my “system” of winning at video poker, a reasonable 20-second summary would be:

Only play when you have the advantage.
Play within your bankroll.
If you do the above, over time your bankroll will increase.

Posted on November 5, 2019August 24, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 17 Comments

Winning a Drawing

I get inspiration for columns from all sorts of places. This was a question sent in to [email protected] for Richard and me to answer on the podcast. I will answer it there the next time we have a “Bob and Richard answer their mail” show (which is usually when we haven’t been able to schedule a guest for that week), but I’ll answer it here first.

Posted on October 29, 2019August 24, 2023 by Bob Dancer — 10 Comments

Things are Always Changing

Most of the specific video poker games I played two years ago are gone. The reason for this is that either casinos have downgraded the machines (e.g. changed the full house from paying 45 to paying 40) or downgraded my welcome in playing that game.

Category: Video Poker