Cheapest Video Poker Game To Play

[FloridaPhil]

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[notes1]

really good graph/info, especially for the new player. might be interesting to see graph of hourly loss expectation, on max coin, w/out RF, for more realistic day to day results.  of course, there is no graph for those sessions when it seems the casinos just will not allow anyone to win. if one is unfortunate and gets caught in a rut of being in those for a long period in a row, the cost of playing can be in the hundeds of dollars per hour.   well done. 

[FAA]

I hate to pour cold water. But graphs and charts like these got me playing 9/6 JOB in the first place. Needless to say, these statistically valid results are a Utopian fantasy. The only way to keep losses respectable is to CS and pot shot. Which is the precisely the author's MO. VP Rope a Dope. Only way to cope.

[Vman96]

8/5 DDB isn't paying the rent. The slot machine making 4 times as much is. Lol

What I would suggest to all players of -EV games though is try to not get up to 800 hands per hour. This isn't a race to lose money. No one should ever be on the turbo setting on the deal. Waste a half second on the cards being dealt, it won't kill you.

[notes1]

What I would suggest to all players of -EV games though is try to not get up to 800 hands per hour. This isn't a race to lose money. No one should ever be on the turbo setting on the deal. Waste a half second on the cards being dealt, it won't kill you.
 vman, your advice may seem simple and obvious, but, i think it is a really good idea, that could benefit many, including myself. thanks for the reminder. i think i heard anthony curtis say once about casinos, speed kills. the difficulty is that everytime we players do something to reduce our losses, the casinos react with another way, to give us less value. it is a vicious circle. players do something to lose less, the casinos have less money to work with, so they react by trying to take more from each player.   

[FloridaPhil]

[quote=Vman96]What I would suggest to all players of -EV games though is try to not get up to 800 hands per hour.[/quote]Great advice.  It is difficult to do sometimes, especially if you have played one game for a long time and hand selections are pretty much automatic.  Often I find myself playing too fast and making stupid mistakes, some have been costly.  This is the case at the Hard Rock Casinos where they play very loud fast music.   I guess I should expect that at a "Hard Rock". 

[FAA]

We're virtually all -EV players of course. Each hand takes me at least fifteen seconds, so I'm a very slow poke. I take time to over analyze my options, curse my luck and resign myself to the hand. When I've got a great hand, I really savor it and visualize success upon hitting Draw. The dreaming must be of some entertainment value for me. A true CS player, you will break even on JOB. I creep up to two and three coins too much.Bally's does the loud fast music also. It is incredibly annoying when gutting out a loss cycle! The full pay machines are uprights to boot, so double discomfort. I've got to resolve to just kick the tires with five hands there, if I can muster the willpower.

[olds442jetaway]

I find 600 hands per hour to be a comfortable pace for me on draw poker. Nearly double that though on Double Down Stud which requires very little thinking time. The biggest enemy of fast play other than stupid mistakes are machines that are poorly maintained. Sticky buttons or touch screens that do not hold when they should are the two biggest offenders. My most recent experience that is even worse is I have found a few machines that hold your card after you hit the button, then unhold it as you hit the draw button. Those machines I just won't play anymore. 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.

[Eduardo]

So the lesson is, play slow, bet one coin, and play the game that will lose money the slowest?

That sounds... fun?

Your cost per hour chart looks just like a Bob Dancer chart. The onyl difference being he would tell you not to play these games because it's simply costing you money.

But if you play for the entertainment alone, then keeping your cost low is probably a good plan.

For some of us though, the fun of it comes from actually winning something. So I'm afraid I need an approach somewhere in the middle.

If I hit a one coin royal I would cry. Not worth it to play this way in my opinion even if I'm playing for enjoyment.

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. This approach isn't for me. But if it's for you, that's great.

The information from the chart is probably useful for a lot of people.

[FloridaPhil]

[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.[/quote]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.