Cheapest Video Poker Game To Play

[faygo]

[quote=edwardo]But I also believe that there are different approaches for different
players and people should play however they feel like playing without
giving other people a hard time about it.I couldn't agree more.   There is no perfect way to play video poker because we are not all playing for the same reason.   I understand why professionals play the way they do.  I also expect them to understand why a recreational player may play differently. 


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Pray tell, why a recreational player, would or should, play different.

[FloridaPhil]

[quote=faygo]Pray tell, why a recreational player, would or should, play different.
[/quote]This is a great question and I'm happy someone finally asked it.  I think this subject is important enough to have it's own thread.  See the Strategy Forum.

[FAA]

This subject is important enough to have it's own thread.  See the Strategy Forum.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A real cliffhanger!

[FAA]

The idea is to play 80%
of your hands at single coin quarters and 20% at max coins
quarters or higher
denomination.----------------------------------------------------------------------This should be the primary consideration. You don't really have to follow the process of when to go max, which I find to be rather tedious. My solution: Assume a two hour VP window. Spend 95 minutes diligently in one coin mode. By then you will have missed out on many premium hand payouts and will be chomping at the bit to go max! Set an alarm or be very strict checking your watch during the session.  If the machine seems mired in a cold cycle the last ten of those 95 minutes, it may be time to bail entirely!

[olds442jetaway]

Just a quick note for now. Two nights ago, I was playing very late at night up at Mohegan Sun and hit my first Royal for 2016 with max bet CS play. I only held A K of clubs on a hand following a one coin flush hit. I had been playing deuces wild and noticed quads without deuces were not showing up at all. No other good hits either. I switched games on the same machine to job and quads, full houses, and then the Royal hit. Just pure luck. The best thing is it all went home less fifty bucks I had fun with for the next several hours. Good luck to all this year. I think I have finally learned my lesson after years of squandering the few and far between premium hands.

[Sea Lion]

For the most part, the best games and those that seem to have a true RNG are on the old machines. I am not confident at all that their replacements will have the similar chip for the RNG function.I hear ya on this! At The Orleans, they used to have a bank of seven "All-Star" upright 5 cent 10-play machines in the back just ahead of Fuddruckers going towards the back exit, and they were mysteriously removed about a month ago.  I've hit some pretty impressive hands on these including dealt 4-Aces with and without kicker on 9/6 DDB several times, and dealt 4- 2s,3s,4s w/ kickers several times, and many dealt quads. Those $400 - $1000 hands were sure pretty, and I've seen several others hit on these machines too. They were replaced with some very poor paytable single play uprights.The newer "All-Star 2" machines seem a lot harder to get the quad, like every 1200 hands as opposed to around every 400 hands on the old machines. Same with the newer single hand machines. Be damned if I can get anything better than a full house on them. I will stick to the older machines any day over the newer ones that seem to have that "automatic hose the player" attached to them!

[alpax]

Congrats to you olds for the first big hit of the year and hopefully many more to come!

[olds442jetaway]

Thanks. By the way, the hit was on a very old and beat up bartop machine with a shaky screen and buttons so bad that I had to use the glass. The bar had long since closed for the evening. That is when I like to play them. Away from the drunks, smoke, and other wackos.

[FAA]

Congratulations Olds! As DW was a money pit, switching games was the perfect cure. I gave back $80 the day of my max coin RF. With experience comes knowledge. One 2016 max RF would cover most of the year's losses. Hope it even arrives!