My Journey on Video Poker

[Tedlark]

That'll work just fine.

[onemoretry]

And, you did it standing on your head again!

[Come Back Kid]

LOL OMT...Nice one Dan!

[olds442jetaway]

Great night. Sounds like me. Yours ended up good, but like me sometimes we just don't quote know when to fold em.

[DAAnMAAn]

*win-loss statement for 2018*
Getting to be that tax-time. I have only two w2g’s this year, both for flopped deuces on a .25c 5 play machine for $1250 each.
Interesting to note, my play for 2018 was 99% at one location, Aliante. Now I was expecting the statement to have a block of the win and a block for the loss. Nope, just a difference of the two, which came out approximately at a win of around $5,500. For part-time quarter break even games,I guess that’s not bad.
A layman’s guess of the hours played for the year divided by the total sum is likely around 6-8 bucks an hour ROI (return on investment). Fancy lingo for results by hour average. Won’t be quitting my day job, but at least it’s in the black.
Anyway, So I thought I’d share that with the encouragement to keep good records on the play. The win loss obviously does not tell the whole story. Tax law is always changing but I do believe it still adds as income and may affect your bracket but can write off losses up to your win. Cheers!
~D

[onemoretry]

Congratulations on being ahead for the year. Very few of us, I think, can say that (including me).

Perhaps now I can motivate myself to compile and post my 2018 tally.

[Tedlark]

Yes, good news on being positive. Here's a question: as a local, did you receive any offers or give away's of any mention from Aliante for your play?

[olds442jetaway]

Great news Dan. I’ve never been ahead by year’s end. Most of it my own fault as at some point I am ahead in nearly every session

[Waiting4RF]

If you were playing $5 denomination, that could have been $110,000 for the year.

[markinca]

Are the casino won/loss statements for you guys accurate? I used to go off my W/L statements, but a couple years ago I started meticulously recording all of my sessions, and I found at the end of the year my statements were usually WAY off from my actual win/loss.