Amazing session of video poker

[kfed]

Hello all. Just wanted to relate a story of an amazing video poker session I witnessed this past Friday night at the Monarch Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado. A lady sitting next to me at their high limit bar had a 90-minute run that I would love to duplicate.

Her first hand pay was on $5 single play, Dbl Dbl Bonus - 4 Aces with a kicker for $10,000.
The second hand pay was on $1 Ultimate X 3 play Deuces Wild - 4 wild deuces with a 12X for $12,000.
The third hand pay was on .50 cent Ultimate X 5 play Dbl Dbl Bonus - A Royal Flush with a 12X for $24,000.

[Tedlark]

Wow.

Did you take any over the shoulder pictures of the hits?

[FAA]

I love the over the shoulder style. I would have been snapping away since they were all five figure.

[kfed]

No, I didn't get any pictures. I think I was just as stunned as she was.

[Tedlark]

I love the over the shoulder style. I would have been snapping away since they were all five figure.

Hugh Hefner had nothing on you...

[olds442jetaway]

Great for the player, but a picture is worth a thousand words!

[BobDancer]

This lady was playing volatile games for high stakes. You win big. You lose big. You witnessed one nice winning streak. She has undoubtedly had many more very painful, expensive sessions that you didn't witness.

She's playing for high stakes at not-so-good pay schedules. And switching from game-to-game to me means she hasn't mastered any particular game. So a 98% pay schedule in her hands becomes a 97% pay schedule.

So celebrate her successes. They don't come around very often and she's very likely loses $100,000 or more a year. To my mind she's a more a model to be avoided than to dream you have a session like she had. Because the losing sessions are far more plentiful and bigger than the winning ones.

[Jstark]

This lady was playing volatile games for high stakes. You win big. You lose big. You witnessed one nice winning streak. She has undoubtedly had many more very painful, expensive sessions that you didn't witness.

She's playing for high stakes at not-so-good pay schedules. And switching from game-to-game to me means she hasn't mastered any particular game. So a 98% pay schedule in her hands becomes a 97% pay schedule.

So celebrate her successes. They don't come around very often and she's very likely loses $100,000 or more a year. To my mind she's a more a model to be avoided than to dream you have a session like she had. Because the losing sessions are far more plentiful and bigger than the winning ones.

As Bob said, I see this stuff daily from the UX regulars. These players light much more money on fire playing that game than they get back from it. Add in that none of them are playing anywhere near optimal strategy just compounds this.

[olds442jetaway]

st theoretical return one has experienced after listening to the above discussions, excluding free rooms, and other comps like food and shows, but including free play, free gas, or anything that could be converted to cash. I think mine was 103 percent and that was a long time ago. Mine was playing 99.54 job, both free play and free gas, and additional free play depending how much coin in was played during the same session. I valued the free play at the 99.54 rate and of course figured it based on perfect play which was probably being a Bit too generous

[FAA]

A DDB baby hand pay. Lucky couple won $1,475 while burning through BR at $21 a spin. They’re feeling flush, as a 5X multiplier did wonders for their straight flush.