{"id":866034,"date":"2024-09-24T14:15:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=866034"},"modified":"2024-09-24T14:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:15:34","slug":"knowing-more-than-one-video-poker-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/knowing-more-than-one-video-poker-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowing More Than One Video Poker Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Presumably, the vast majority of my readers have a favorite video poker game. Or at least a \u201cgo to\u201d video poker game that they play the most. If they didn\u2019t, they wouldn\u2019t spend their time reading a blog behind a paywall which primarily addresses video poker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reasons for knowing more than one game are multi-fold. In no particular order:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Casinos change their inventory of games periodically. Always have. Always will. If your favorite game goes away, you\u2019ll be in a lot better position to keep playing video poker if you have a back-up game.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    1. The conditions on the game you usually play might be less than ideal. There might be smokers, or sticky buttons, or chatterboxes, or something else that you\u2019d rather avoid. If you only know one game, it\u2019s sometimes a matter of putting up with bad conditions or going home.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      1. There are sometimes more players desiring a particular game than there are machines. This is especially true if you\u2019re playing the loosest game in the house and there\u2019s a special event going on bringing in more players than usual.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        1. Promotions affect games differently. If it\u2019s some sort kind<\/s> of a 4-of-a-kind promotion, deuces wild variants do not perform as well as games without wild cards.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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          1. Different casinos have different game mixes. While to some degree \u201call casinos are the same,\u201d they really aren\u2019t. Each has its own restaurants, for example, and you probably prefer some more than others — plus however good any particular restaurant is, variety is nice. Some casinos include movie theaters, bowling, childcare, shuttles to get you there, or perhaps are nearer to shopping. If you have one or more travel companions when you go to casinos, some of these things might be important to whomever you\u2019re traveling with.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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            1. The more games you know and practice, the more you stay mentally sharp at playing the game. I\u2019m a believer that to keep your brain sharp, you have to use it. Regularly. I\u2019m not an expert in brain health, but I\u2019ve heard that adage repeated enough that it\u2019s gospel to me. While at age 77 my brain is not as sharp as it was when I was younger, I attribute the sharpness that remains to the regular use to which I put it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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              1. Video poker is a very repetitious game. You\u2019re dealt two pair. You hold two pair. For many people, playing the same repetitious game over and over again gets boring.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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                1. Your financial conditions might change, and not all pay schedules are available in all denominations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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                  1. There might be better games on Triple Play or some other format you prefer more than single line games.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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                    1. You might prefer slant top machines to uprights. Or maybe adjustable chairs. Or distance from the sound effects of a particularly obnoxious slot machine.
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                    2. Playing multiple games allows you to meet more people. While a lot of us, including me, prefer to play without chatting, a valuable source of information about games and\/or promotions at the current casino and others will be your fellow players. Just as in \u201creal life,\u201d the more networking you do the more you\u2019ll succeed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                      Presumably, the vast majority of my readers have a favorite video poker game. Or at least a \u201cgo to\u201d video poker game that they play the most. If they didn\u2019t, they wouldn\u2019t spend their time reading a blog behind a paywall which primarily addresses video poker. The reasons for knowing more than one game are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15763,"featured_media":843442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[601,558,557],"tags":[561,585],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/spinach-2.png?fit=500%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866035,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866034\/revisions\/866035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}