Counting cards in video poker

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olds442jetaway
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Counting cards in video poker

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Most will say this is useless pure insanity, but it takes the boredom out of 9/6 JOB and is lots of fun. I guess you could also call it a version of my Martingale Clone style of play. All I am doing is constantly counting to 4. The reason I count to 4 is I know long term that 2 pair or better comes along in JOB every 4.2 hands long term. I will keep it simple and start my bet with a quarter. If I haven’t hit 2 pair or better in 4 straight hands, I will bet 2 quarters Anytime I hit 2 pair or better while counting to 4, I will back my bet down one unit and start counting to 4 again. For instance, today I played 4 hours, hit no quads and came away ahead 30 bucks. I don’t like the short coin part, but at this point, I am playing with small budgets. Just as an example, today I had a bad sequence where the machine gave me 20 straight hands without 2 pair or better. So for that sequence, I was out 60 quarters. Now I am at bet 6 and getting nervous. The first hand at bet 6 was a full house good for 54 quarters. So now I only am down 12 quarters. I dropped my bet to bet 5 and hit a straight on the first hand at bet 5. That was good for 20 quarters and now I was ahead 3 quarters. I then drop all the way back to bet I and start my count to 4 all over again.

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Post by stevel96a1 »

i tried it too and it didn't work for me

the best way to explain games of chance is that a sequence of wins and losses will occur when its suppose to. exchange the word with win with two pair or red on roulette wheel or banker on bac table. keep in mind the sequence of wins/losses is constantly mutanting what remained 1/10 chance last 5mins may not hold true 5minutes into the future regardless of game. a good yard stick of what suppose to happen is a million hands or spins or turns,even 1/2 mil would satisfied me, someone said on youtube comment you cant beat baccarant the game is always mutanting and that is true with all casino games to keep it fair.

i was thinking last night about a martin gale system in jacks or better but realized no matter what i do i will meet a sequence of losses my system can not over come only way is to create a system to go to 60th level or 100th level i dont have that bankroll nor the table/poker games are capped at 20th lvl, yes the martin gale guess system would beat any fair casino game but we all know a fair equal casino game has a house limit so its foiled

flat bet just smooth out wins/losses and pray for the royal or 4 ducks or straight flush or whatever game of your choice, i still like to tinker with betting structures and so far none has worked although on another forum one gentleman said he created a 30th step betting system and is ahead 10k$ playing baccarat, i can get ahead easily 8k$ playing 1,2,3 step quarter 1/2 dollar and dollar double double bonus 98.98 game so i actually do believe he is ahead but keeping that cash is a seperate story

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