My Journey on Video Poker

[FAA]

To address the hourly loss rate, it's one way to measure, but not a
great way to measure results imo. It's long term, multiple sessions,
month after month measurement for me. If I looked at it by a session by
session hourly rate, I'd go crazy.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Oh, I agree. Just a favorite stat of mine to take the temperature. I find it measures the "entertainment value." We could see a movie and lose $5-$8 an hour if we were all perfectly prudent.

[FAA]

Playing max coin quarters and limiting losses to $50 per hour is pretty
hard some days.  $100 an hour happens all too often for my taste. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Yikes. My average spin is 2.5 coins, so we both get clobbered on those days. And I'm on 9/6 JOB! This only happens at certain casinos, which I will now be all the more vigilant to write off!

[DAAnMAAn]

I played for the $9 turkey platter and dumped $400 to get it at Santa Fe station, it's not where I normally play,
But Santa Fe is my second or third choice to play. Proximity and decent games (99% paytables or above) is important to me. Just to be prudent, would rather not Reveal where I play most of the time. The smart ones could figure it out from all the posts I'm sure. It's not the greatest place to play, there are better places and spots, it is way better than the strip but that's not saying much... but like I said, proximity is important. I'm not a "pro" pro. If I was, I'd likely not be playing where I currently play as often. Though obviously over 100% plays exist at said locations.

[FAA]

Santa Fe had your head on a platter! Only fair of SF to reciprocate.

[DAAnMAAn]

+100... .25c 10/6 ddb...
Had a simple goal tonight. Make a hundred bucks or play for one hour whichever came first. Right away hit quad queens, then dropped close to even then bang, Hit quad deuces no kicker for a hundred up and cashed out. About a 10 min session. On to the next, cheers

[FAA]

Now that's the best way to gamble. Hit goal, achieve goal, leave premises. Mine is often to make fifty overall. I can achieve half that by winning a complimentary table bet, which happens about half the time. I roll the dice with craps. Hopefully I get an early quad on VP and get the hell out.        But usually it's sweating it out for hours of misery. 

[DAAnMAAn]

+170... .25c 10/6 DDB...
Another quick in and out. Late work day and have to do some errands so made it quick. Probably about 10 min of play, but hit AKAAA for $200 and called it. Until next time, cheers

[DAAnMAAn]

+10... $1 9/6 JOB, .25c 6/5 BP with seq Royal prog@$21,455, .5c 10 coin 7/6 DDB with prog Royal at $750..., and .25c 9/6 DD aces and faces...
As one can see, was just screwing around tonight. Just felt like changing up a bit, getting out of my comfort zone of my routine, jumping from machine to machine,
Playing different denominations, playing bad tables with crazy progressives, doing dumb R0b Slnger type holds...in other words, played touristy and rookish and sophmoric.
Anyway, glad I made it out of there alive. Not a great way to go for those serious about making profit in vp imo...But lucky enough to hit a straight flush on $1 JOB that covered the losses on basically everything else. Moral of the story: curiosity killed the cat. Or don't try this at home.

[FAA]

Dan, hope you got some decent credits out of the session. Don't forget that! That platter needs a playmate.
I treaded water today too. Won $6 at one venue, $14 at Borgata and $38 off a $25 voucher. Beats losing at least. Nice to have someone roll me a six for a $25 craps windfall as well.

[DAAnMAAn]

+1,020... .25c 10/6 DDB...Third time since I started to play VP as I can remember that I hit a royal in the first 5 minutes. This one might of been in the first 2 minutes. Flopped 4 to a royal in clubs, and bam, hit it. Kept playing for approximately another hour hitting a few quads including deuces with a kicker and a straight flush, but ended up around the same amount as after the early royal. Royal always sweet, regardless of when, where, or why. Cheers,P.S. Saw on you tube R0b Slnger giving some advice against the math in favor of the gamble. As I'm sure he will hit more premium hands due to this method, the math is math and I'm sure long term he gets crushed. He also from what I understand advocates a martingale system which he claims makes him over an 80% winner in video poker and the wins he gets in the higher denominations more than makes up on the days he can't make his profit...martingale system is sooner or later the gamblers achilles heal of death from my empirical evidence here in Vegas with gamblers.     I only have books of Kneeland and Dancer, so admittedly a 'math' guy and have not read Slingers book...,However,  I think he preys on the superstitious and desperate variety of player. Bad advice in my opinion at least from what I saw on you tube...will just give one  example in his "go for it" play....9/6 DDB flopping 22KK5 and saving 22 instead of 22KK will cost you about $4.03 cents on $1 play every time according to the math. According to Slinger, you will hit more quad deuces playing this way which will make up and surpass the negative equity you get with this play.  Really poor advice imo and I think if any good comes out of it, casinos will make more money on VP because of this gamble teaching and keep the good games in. Maybe that's his plan all along lol...anyway, was just on my mind after watching his 'alternative" play techniques. Having said all that, I'm always willing to listen and if someone would like to enlighten me why the Slnger method is the better course, I'm listening.Cheers