Am I alone in this?
Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2023 4:43 am
When I go to the casino, I almost exclusively play Deuces Wild with the best pay tables I can find, which promises to pay back 99.8%. I also know all the strategy and I play as perfectly as a human can. Yet, every single time I play, I lose hundreds of dollars.
Sometimes, immediately after sitting down I'll get lucky and win some hands that put me a few dollars ahead. But inevitably as I continue to play, it takes all the money. It doesn't take long either. I can easily lose $100 in an hour or so if I play fast, even on nickels. Lose another hundred, move up a denomination, lose another couple hundred (this time a bit faster). Start playing five play to try and get even, but those games are 1000x worse so the money drains almost instantly. Hit the -$1000 mark and realize that your only hope of getting even is hitting a royal, so you leave and do it again next time, probably sometime next week when you're stupid enough to go along with your friend when he suggests going to the casino for a few hours.
So I'm guessing most people on here know the strategy and pay tables really well, and are intelligent players. Do you have a different experience? Are my friends and I just the most unlucky people in town, or....perhaps the 99% thing just not true? I understand it's 99% over a long period of time, but that's the point. It doesn't keep you at 99% return, not even for a second. It just eats the money. And this is a whole other discussion, but it never used to be like this. A few years ago the machines in town (I live in Las Vegas) behaved completely differently. What's going on here? Any insights?
Sometimes, immediately after sitting down I'll get lucky and win some hands that put me a few dollars ahead. But inevitably as I continue to play, it takes all the money. It doesn't take long either. I can easily lose $100 in an hour or so if I play fast, even on nickels. Lose another hundred, move up a denomination, lose another couple hundred (this time a bit faster). Start playing five play to try and get even, but those games are 1000x worse so the money drains almost instantly. Hit the -$1000 mark and realize that your only hope of getting even is hitting a royal, so you leave and do it again next time, probably sometime next week when you're stupid enough to go along with your friend when he suggests going to the casino for a few hours.
So I'm guessing most people on here know the strategy and pay tables really well, and are intelligent players. Do you have a different experience? Are my friends and I just the most unlucky people in town, or....perhaps the 99% thing just not true? I understand it's 99% over a long period of time, but that's the point. It doesn't keep you at 99% return, not even for a second. It just eats the money. And this is a whole other discussion, but it never used to be like this. A few years ago the machines in town (I live in Las Vegas) behaved completely differently. What's going on here? Any insights?