FloridaPhil wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:13 pm
There are many questions asked by everyday players that go unanswered. Answers that would help someone other than APs.
Suppose you play at a casino that offers two single line Deuces Wild games. The quarter game is 97.05% at max coins ($1.25). The dollar game is 97.68% at single coin ($1). Which is the better game to play?
Wow, deep difficult questions that no one has ever thought of before! Do you know the answer to this question? If so, why do you keep asking it? If you haven't been able to figure it out the first couple hundred times it has been posed, what makes you think you will retain the answer this time?
How much do you think all the everyday players that you believe you represent would pay to purchase a book with the answer? Here's a couple questions for you: How many times have you asked a similar question? Or how many times have you posed an answer? And how many times in the future are you going to do the same? I realize that the latter is a problem in the long term that calls for a prediction over an uncertain time frame. I could predict that if Webman does not once again ban you for doing the same things you have said you wouldn't do, short coining a higher denomination machine will be referenced by you maybe another 100 times this year.
The actual answer to the question you posed would be different for different people. Heck, it is even different for you depending upon what time of the year, or even what time of the day it is. Do you want the top prize to be $250 or $1,000? Do you want to win $250 for quad deuces or $200? If you simply want to limit your expected loss, I think you should stop underestimating the intelligence of those everyday players that you think they represent. I'm guessing that most of them that would bother to read advice about video poker would be able to tell that losing 2.32% of $1 is better than losing 2.95% of $1.25.
This is so obvious, once the question is posed, that no one will ever write a book about it. I first observed a quotation on single-coin play (before I had ever played more than a few hands of video poker) in a chapter of a casino gambling book by Anthony Brisbane. I think that book referenced WinPoker and that reference was the first time I had ever saw Bob Dancer's name. The information about single coin play was basically fully explained in a paragraph or two. And all that predated this forum.
It really doesn't matter how many times you ask different versions of the same question. No amount of this question posing will ever make up for the idea that you used to lose lots of money after believing that your own results at video poker were more important in forming future strategies and predicting future results than what the theoretical expectations of the game would have shown you if you had actually comprehended what the "expert" said in his book.
From your recent posts, you still haven't learned your lesson. Everytime you say or think, "It works for me," that is revealing that you think your own particular experience is somehow superior to the realization that the random number generators that you will face in the future have zero correlation to what random number generators have supplied you in the past.
FloridaPhil wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:13 pm
I can post a long list of these questions.
Some of them have been asked before. The "expert" answer is something like, "Is it better to be hit by a truck or a bus?". Who is helped by this answer?
I wouldn't mind seeing questions that have not been asked and answered. The example in this post is not one of those. Turning this around, who is helped by your question that wasn't already helped by the first couple hundred times you posed it?
FloridaPhil wrote: ↑Wed Apr 15, 2020 1:13 pm
Pretending that everyone has access to positive games and great comps leads players to believe they are at fault if they don't. No one is disputing math. What
we need are experts who will answer all player questions not cherry pick questions that few people need answered.
The video poker software that is available actually works on negative games as well as positive games. No expert is hiding the best way to play negative games from you.
I've highlighted your use of the word "we." Often, when you write this, the proper term that you should be using is "I." I realize you think you are being noble in helping countless others, but when it comes to vp play and theory, you may want to take care of yourself first.
You continually clamor away that the expert doesn't meet your needs or answer your questions. To give historical perspective, you spent quite a lot of time hounding the expert's posts here until he got fed up with you and greatly reduced his frequency of posting. You can claim that he wasn't always nice and wasn't appropriately considerate of your feelings (oh, yes, and the feelings of the masses that you claimed to represent). I can excuse him for that because there are lots more productive things to do with time than trying to the misconceptions of an amateur that overestimates his own abilities and who either doesn't have the capacity or the inclination to learn from his own mistakes. Until you get the proper amount of introspection, I fear that will continue to be the case.
Yes, I realize that everything that I wrote here may not help all the everyday players that you represent, but they aren't all making a nuisance of themselves.