Video Poker Forum

u guys seem to be quite knowledgeable about advantage machines. maybe u can help me. i tried posting this in another forum, but didnt get any replies. im mostly a $1-2 NL player myelf, aint had a job in over 10 yrs, and win like $500-1000 a week--when im in vegas instead of sitting at home on pokerstars, but never can seem to maintain a suitable bankroll.
anyway from back home ive slowly run my roll back close to $4000 from $2000 online from pokerstars double or nothing sngs. and id like to make another trip--tired of going to vegas all the time, and id kind of like to maybe go to laughlin, az, or ca, fl, or ??? am a little nervous about laughlin cause i never made a tresspassing date from 7-10 yrs ago from the old flamingo laughlin--which no longer exists. this was before $1-2 NL was around, and all the poker games were low fixed limits. back then i used to favor $1-5 stud, and played about 10 hrs a day to win only $50 or less. so i was pretty broke much of time, was often without a hotel room, and had rolls of $200-500. and they threw me out cause they thought i was picking up money from outta the machines.
 
is there a way to mail a fine and is that old warrant still good? doubt if im in other casinos than the aquarius ill be in trouble, but some others threw me out too.
 
anyway my question for the machine advanatage play experts is this:  where all do they have the video BJ machines like they have in the stratosphere in vegas? u know with a big boobed dealer saying place ur bets. and where BJ pays 3-2 and doesnt shuffle til 2 3rd of a 6 deck shoes dealt. where if u want u can tie up all 5 spots to urself and spread ur bet from 1 hand of $3 to 5 spots $100 each? do they also have them machines in phoenix casinos, AC NJ or ca casinos? i really need to know.
 
and with only about a $4000 roll, what should my max bet be? 5 spots of $20 each? i wont go bust on these under any conditions, and if i do, no worry, i do get SSI coming in every month. but to avoid going busted, if i drop $1000 or more ill just go back to nothing but $1-2 NL games again. curious to know what my risk of ruin will be if anyone kind enough to figure it up. be aware i like to tie up all 5 seats, and bet only the min bet ($1 instead of $3 if possible) until the deck turns positive.

   Call the Clarck County Justice court   702-671-3116  and they will tell if you have an outstanding warrant, after you are on hold for an hour.
    I may be slightly mistaken but those BJ machines are 6 deck, about 99.4% return because of the good rule package in the game.  The Tropacana express has this game but the players card is not big enough to overcome the enherent edge of the game.  Counting at this game would produce a positive ev. but the game dosent let you know when it shuffles at the trop. express, as far as I can tell.  Anybody got any clues as to tell when it shuffles?

   Call the Clarck County Justice court 

still waiting for an expert like mickey to tell me what i should bet on the video BJ machines that let u count the cards there in laughlin if u have a $4000 roll, and will go back to the $1-2 NL poker games in vegas if i drop over $1000 of it. what should be my spread? and do i need to play the $1 min machine instead of a $3 min machine?

I can't help you much SevenCard. I've seen those machines at several casinos in Vegas (Las Vegas Club and Plaza on Fremont come to mind), but when out there, there are more than enough live tables with Double Deck that have pretty good rules so I haven't bothered much with the machines. I seem to remember them at Tropicana Express in Laughlin.

River Palms has one too. Three card poker and hold-em machines also. I didn't see any video roulette though.

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   I just finished doing a sample on one of these bj machines to try and determine the shuffle point.  I wont go into details but it seems that the deck may get a shuffle at the dealer change which occurs at 180 cards dealt before the hand starts, not quite 2/3, but these results were consistent.  I am going to do another sample at another location friday and will let you know my conclusion at that time.  Keep in mind that some of these machines tell you that the deck is shuffled at 2/3 penetration and some tell you that the deck is shuffled every hand.  I am only looking at the version with 2/3 penetration.