How To Keep The Casino From Beating You

[FloridaPhil]

I am craving BP too now.

FAA, you didn't ask me for it, but for what it's worth here's my advice based on my reading of your posts. To me it seems your have two issues to overcome. The first is you are playing VP without an adequate daily bankroll. This makes your time in front of the machine either feast of famine, usually the later. What I would do is save my money and play the game when I can spend two hours playing with 1,000 coins or more. Video poker is a marathon not a sprint. Play when you have enough time to let the game work for you. Popping in and out of the casino looking for a royal is an extreme long shot.

You have already identified your second challenge, playing above your bankroll. Stay away from dollar play like poison. Embrace quarter play and enjoy the game itself, not the thrill of a hand pay. Play slow, accurate and pace yourself. Jackpots will come if you wait for them. If you try the engineer them, you will continually be depressed. Eventually you will quit the game and that would be a shame.

[Tedlark]

I have made these same suggestions many times. I would much rather have a single session bankroll of $500.00 than 5 single session bankrolls of $100.00 each. I also think FAA gets a bit nervous when some short term losses tally up.

Oh well.....

[FloridaPhil]

I have made these same suggestions many times. I would much rather have a single session bankroll of $500.00 than 5 single session bankrolls of $100.00 each. I also think FAA gets a bit nervous when some short term losses tally up. Oh well.....

For sure. You can't play a video poker machine like a wheel of fortune. One or two hands out of thousands can make a huge difference and the "dud hands", as I recall someone describing them, will kill your morale. When you play more hands in a session, the small jackpots keep you in the game until the rare jackpots occur. If you want to see more royals, you must play more hands.

[FAA]

I have considered abstinence and making the one lump sum donation. But that would nix three other fun trips. It's all long term. Like it or lump it.

[olds442jetaway]

Unfortunately, abstinence isn't even in my vocabulary. Though sometimes, the Mrs. wishes it was.

[FAA]

Assuming long view VP, actual session BR is immaterial if you accept a higher bust frequency. A $250 BR will likely yield three quads. So -$160 if you tread water. This ain't Tampa; I accrue zero. It would just be twice the bust in half the trips. I can't tolerate another triple digit bust.

[FloridaPhil]

Assuming long view VP, actual session BR is immaterial if you accept a higher bust frequency. A $250 BR will likely yield three quads. So -$160 if you tread water. This ain't Tampa; I accrue zero. It would just be twice the bust in half the trips. I can't tolerate another triple digit bust.

As long as you don't jump off a bridge in the mean time.

[InstaGatur]

Dancer has risk to ruin charts.

[FAA]

I rarely pass $1,000 coin in recently, so that's kept me sane. The losses really mounted with jacked up CI and I felt guilty and inconsolable. Even with $250, risk to ruin stats for 9/6 JB were poor IIRC. If someone can post a chart, it would be helpful.

[case]

I am craving BP too now.

FAA, you didn't ask me for it, but for what it's worth here's my advice based on my reading of your posts. To me it seems your have two issues to overcome. The first is you are playing VP without an adequate daily bankroll. This makes your time in front of the machine either feast of famine, usually the later. What I would do is save my money and play the game when I can spend two hours playing with 1,000 coins or more. Video poker is a marathon not a sprint. Play when you have enough time to let the game work for you. Popping in and out of the casino looking for a royal is an extreme long shot.

You have already identified your second challenge, playing above your bankroll. Stay away from dollar play like poison. Embrace quarter play and enjoy the game itself, not the thrill of a hand pay. Play slow, accurate and pace yourself. Jackpots will come if you wait for them. If you try the engineer them, you will continually be depressed. Eventually you will quit the game and that would be a shame.

This is an excellent post