Learn Video Poker | How to Get Started
Learn Video Poker | Generally, video poker has better long term theoretical odds than slots but you have to learn how to play it. You must find and play only machines with the best pay tables and learn the strategies well enough to get close to realizing the best odds you can find.
When You Gamble Perfectly But Still Lose
You’ve heard the expression, “The operation was a success but the patient died.” What does it mean? Could it relate to the concept of: “Gamble Perfectly But Still Lose?”
Best Video Poker in Las Vegas
It’s getting harder to find full pay video poker in Las Vegas, but until the costs outweigh the benefits, I will continue to play. I cannot provide a comprehensive list of the best video poker in Las Vegas, as I did with Atlantic City. Fortunately, I have been going to Las Vegas for many years and know about most of the low denomination (25c or below) opportunities.
Learning Video Poker Strategy at a Video Poker Bar
Scott Roeben, founder of the Vital Vegas blog and podcast, asked me some questions about video poker strategy, during my interview at the live broadcast of Vegas Confessions Podcast in November. He followed up by interviewing me for the Vital Vegas Podcast and we spoke off the record about his quest to hit his first Royal Flush.
Nuggets of Casino Wisdom | Best Video Poker in Atlantic City
I have been on a quest to find the highest returning video poker for 14 years now, so I thought I’d make a list of the best video poker in Atlantic City.
Playing Video Poker is More Than Video Poker Pay Tables
This post is NOT to tell you what to do, but instead to consider the reasons and possibilities. Playing video poker and video poker pay tables there are many things to consider if you want to give yourself the best chances to win. Let’s look at the big picture.
Video Poker | The Kind Of Attitude Problems That Benefit Video Poker Play
In casinos, their basic program is that the players lose. I don’t like that program. Going along with that program isn’t a way to come out ahead. So I regularly look for exceptions and sometimes find them. And when I do find them, and I think the exceptions are to my benefit,
The Truth About Video Poker – Jacks or Better
If you are a Video Poker Player, the Truth is…
That you should learn to play Jacks or Better perfectly and stick with it unless you have a really good reason to play something else.
Video Poker | How Happy Do You Get With A Royal Flush?
Last year I read Michael Craig’s “The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King,” which was about a banker from Texas, Andy Beal, taking on the best poker players in the world, one at a time, in heads up limit Texas Hold’em poker. For a discussion of the book, you can listen to the March […]
Video Poker Coaching Done Right – Bob Dancer
Video poker coaching isn’t just about odds and techniques, but also about the person who’s playing. Everyone has their own style, games & knowledge..
Risk Of Ruin | The Truth About Advantage Play
Risk of Ruin is a concept you should consider if you want to continue casino play on a regular basis. You can usually manage a fair gamble against the casinos if you study the games and play at optimal times but that just makes it more probable that you will break even or better over the long run.
Where’s The Best Place To Play Video Poker?
Every month I get at least three emails with some variation of the following: “I’ll be in Las Vegas next month and I want to know the best place to play video poker.”
How To Decide Which Video Poker Game To Play
In video poker, things are very much opposite from the situation described above. You can learn everything you need to know about a game by looking at the pay schedule, denomination, slot club, and current promotions — assuming you know how to read the “code”. There is no additional information available by tasting — for me anyway. Your score over five minutes or five hours tells you absolutely nothing relevant about whether or not you should keep playing.
Many people have a tough time accepting this concept. After all, in most things in life, you learn as you go. But not here.
Video Poker | Five Hundred Dollars Isn’t The Same As Five Hundred Dollars
To me, the $500 loss at this casino isn’t a real loss. I know there are swings up and down. I STRONGLY BELIEVE I’m going to come out ahead at gambling over the course of a year.
Video Poker | Not All Lessons Are Learned So Easily – Bob Dancer
The way the class operates is that I go around the class and ask everyone in turn a question. I was coming up to Tom, Dick, and Harry — likely not their real names.
Video Poker | Have You Got What It Takes? – Bob Dancer
If you lack basic intelligence, video poker study probably isn’t going to help you very much. You might learn enough to lose less over time, but you’ll never be very good. Anyone who claims that everybody can be successful at video poker is mistaken.
Video Poker | How To Learn The Right Lessons – Bob Dancer
Bob Dancer enlightens us about how you can learn the right lessons when playing video poker: “Experience can be a great teacher.”
How To Play Video Poker The Smart Way – Part 3
Sharp Angles Can Cut You One casino was offering a Card of the Day (COD) promotion, where players hitting a 4-of-a-kind in the designated COD received an additional jackpot of from 100 to 125 coins, depending on the denomination. Each player received a different COD which he didn’t know until he came into the casino […]
How To Play Video Poker The Smart Way – Part 2
“Dear Mr. Dancer: I am not a greedy player. Unfortunately, neither am I lucky. I start out each session playing for nickels. If I get ahead $20, I quit for the day. If I get behind, I switch to dimes. If that still goes bad, I try quarters, and then eventually half-dollars, dollars, and then a maximum of $2…”
How To Play Video Poker The Smart Way – Part 1
So let’s say your score has been in a freefall for twenty minutes straight. Is this a sign the machine is “cold” or “bad” or something? Not at all.
How To Solve The Video Poker Puzzle – Part 1
How Does It Make You Feel? Assume you start with 100 credits on your favorite machine. Over the next twenty minutes, you build up the credits to 350. Full houses are coming with a nice regularity, as are straights and flushes. Four-of-a-kinds are appearing at twice their usual frequency. Life is indeed beautiful. This is […]
Casino Gaming | Video Poker vs. Blackjack | Part II
Continuing our conversation from Part I, Skilled or lucky, blackjack players are frequently barred from playing. This happens less often at video poker, even when players consistently win, although it does happen more today than it did several years ago. Why? I think the reason is that the general public thinks that card counting at […]
Casino Gaming | Video Poker vs. Blackjack | Part I
Casino gaming explained: There is considerable overlap between blackjack players and video poker players. Let’s look at why.