Something to Think About

[FloridaPhil]

4/6/2020 Session Two
Starting Credits - 41,53
Ending Credits - 41,063

Quad 8s.

[Waiting4RF]

Phil, how many hands were played in each session? You need to know the number of hands to calculate the return.

[onemoretry]

..... to calculate the return.

That involves mathematics. Phil does not believe in it!

[FloridaPhil]

..... to calculate the return.

That involves mathematics. Phil does not believe in it!

Except for a short time in the beginning of my career, I spent my entire working life in sales and marketing. The few clients I kept, have been with me for twenty years or more. Here's an excerpt from an email I received recently from a long time client. I am posting it so you can see that I too have generated millions of dollars in revenue.

"I appreciate the great job and services that you have provided me through the years. Our website presents is number one in South Florida and has generated millions of dollars in sales. Thank you so much for your help. Please continue to invoice the company in the usual manner without any changes. My best to you and your family please stay safe and healthy."

In order to sell products or services, you must create demand. Selling "beat the casino" video poker strategy to players is no different. Sadly, you can't keep your customer's happy forever because they will not be able to duplicate your results. If they complain too loudly, you can insult them and blame them for lack of intelligence, skill or discipline. You can prove your strategy works by posting a bunch of math that means nothing in a live casino environment. You can talk about fractions of a return and do everything you can to distract them from thinking about their growing losses.

Twenty years ago, the profit producing part of this strategy was ground breaking. Today, it's obsolete. Anyone who has played video poker in a casino over the last few years knows this. Some people choose to ignore this because they have invested too much in it to let go. You are not going to catch back up because every time you get close the casino will change the rules.

This virus has given us the opportunity to reevaluate. At this time, no player is winning or losing. We are all in the same boat. If we choose to, we can start out fresh when the casino reopens. Video poker is the same game when it's played for nickels or $100 a coin. The cards look the same. The buttons work the same. The bell rings the same. The smaller you play it, the less it costs.

[Tedlark]

..... to calculate the return.

That involves mathematics. Phil does not believe in it!

Except for a short time in the beginning of my career, I spent my entire working life in sales and marketing. The few clients I kept, have been with me for twenty years or more. Here's an excerpt from an email I received recently from a long time client. I am posting it so you can see that I too have generated millions of dollars in revenue.

"I appreciate the great job and services that you have provided me through the years. Our website presents is number one in South Florida and has generated millions of dollars in sales. Thank you so much for your help. Please continue to invoice the company in the usual manner without any changes. My best to you and your family please stay safe and healthy."

Phil, you do not clinically fit into one of the six subtypes of delusional disorder but if you think that you have generated millions of dollars in revenue based on this submittal; you do have some type of disorder.

Just a thought: You mentioned prior that you have been retired for some number of years and your son now runs the business so, in this context, your son could make the same blurry claim you did.

[Tedlark]

All I can do is tell you how I play video poker and why I do it. I answered all of Ted's questions as best I could.

Um, no; you have not answered all my questions as best you could. I am still awaiting an answer to my question: "Phil, what casino hospitality are players enjoying? At a fraction of the cost? Please be a tad more specific."

[onemoretry]

Except for a short time in the beginning of my career, I spent my entire working life in sales and marketing. The few clients I kept, have been with me for twenty years or more. Here's an excerpt from an email I received recently from a long time client. I am posting it so you can see that I too have generated millions of dollars in revenue........

I'm absolutely baffled by this post. Not by its content, but by the fact that it was supposedly a response to my perhaps ill-advised attempt at some light hearted humour about Phil and math.

[FloridaPhil]

Just a thought: You mentioned prior that you have been retired for some number of years and your son now runs the business so, in this context, your son could make the same blurry claim you did.

Ted. There is nothing delusional about my professional career. I have worn many hats. I have been an office machine repairman, an entrepreneur, the Vice President of a Florida based newspaper, a computer programmer, a computer network engineer, a systems analyst, a marketing consultant and a Realtor. I was one of the founding members of the Minicomputer Dealer's Association of America. To this day, I receive regular royalty checks from software I developed and licensed many years ago. I still offer my personal services on a per job basis. I choose who I work for, how much I charge and how much time I allow my clients. My experience does not come cheap.

My son purchased the business I started 50 years ago in 2002. It was a family business. My wife was the customer liaison and installation manager. I am no longer involved with that business. My wife is retired now. My wife started a Real Estate business in 2001. She asked me to be her Marketing Manager. She booked over 63 million dollars in sales until she retired. In 2007, she had the second highest net sales for D.R. Horton in the State of Florida. That's a lot of commission checks.

I did not waste my life sitting in a smokey casino pushing buttons on a slot machine. To the contrary, I created jobs. I gave young talented people a start and helped them to achieve their dreams. My clients were small family businesses, mature businesses, Fortune 500 Companies, major universities and local governments. I am very pleased with my life's work.

I am sorry I don't live up to your expectations. I am sorry I don't believe video poker is a worthwhile career. I am not sorry for posting what I consider to be good advice on gambling. If you would like to take up the cause of "beating the casino", be my guest. Be advised people will turn on you when what you are selling them doesn't work out. People will be angry with you. They will hate your guts for addicting them to a dream that turns into the same smoke that they have to breath to play those machines. It's sad that you seem oblivious this. I wish it were not so.

[Tedlark]

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[Tedlark]

Phil you are totally going off the reservation. I have not expressed or set any expectations for you to meet. You keep going on and on about gamblers, being in smoky casinos, beating the casinos, the evils of gambling and your sworn duty to warn the world that video poker is a losing proposition. I think that covers most of it but I may have missed one or two of your regular talking points.

The difference between you and I when it comes to gambling is that I do not give a hoot whether a person gambles or plays video poker. No one has to answer to me except me. I had to answer to my parents until I was considered of legal age plus a couple years for good measure. As others besides me have stated here: why do you care so much what people do with anything? How does what any other person in the world does with their money concern you? It doesn't. How does what any other person in the world does to earn a living concern you? It doesn't.

What is funny to me though is that you continually try to warn the universe that video poker is a losing proposition yet you keep playing. This sir, IS the Merriam-Webster's definition of oxymoron.