Extremely Lucky. I should quit for the year now!

[dinghy]

I have never seen one where the quad pays 7 before doubling.

I got it from the Wizard of Odds vp analyzer. 35 coins is the default quad value for DDS Bonus Deuces. I've never played DDS ever, so maybe I'm miscommunicating or misinterpreting something.

I can only write about my own experiences playing well over 20 million hands for over 30 years.

I believe I'm only in the one-digit millions. I play strictly by the book, best games/promos I can find. I'm probably a less effective player now because I'm not motivated to grind out long sessions.

I've not yet incorporated machine cycles or other paranormal phenomena into my method. Maybe when I'm more experienced.

[olds442jetaway]

There are no DDS games in Ct that pay 7 for quad on Bonus Deuces wild. Just regular deuces wild a couple. Marathon sessions are getting to be a Royal pain. I’m 72. I can do it, but it is not as much fun as years ago. As paytables and comps deteriorate furter, there is less incentive to play to try and make money.

[FAA]

I can do it physically. Financially, it is somewhat problematic!

[dinghy]

As paytables and comps deteriorate further, there is less incentive to play to try and make money.

True.

Have you looked at the slot data for Connecticut?

https://gaming.unlv.edu/reports/ct_monthly.pdf

For 2020, Mohegan's house edge was 8.38%. Total free play was 9.34% of the casino's net win.

For 2011 (earliest available), edge was 8.13%. Free play was 9.11%.

No evidence there of significant tightening within the last decade. (Foxwoods does appear to have tightened, although it consistently gives more than Mohegan.)

More Mohegan details from 2020. Total slot handle 4.6 billion, total free play 36 million. They gave back nearly 0.8% of all coin-in. That actually seems generous compared to what I'm familiar with in Vegas. If they're like most places, the best rewards go to the slot players. Have they replaced many of the vp machines with slots?

[olds442jetaway]

Abdolutely. Slots are lumped in with vp in those numbers. Vp has taken the biggest hit in comps, machines being removed, and the best machines being shut off due to covid. I can still catch a 101 percent game with free play, but only on triple status point days as exlained in my fairly recent posts. They still have 99.54 job quarters, but fewer of them and many are shut off. DDB 9/6 is below 99 ercent. I hardly ever play it. Like many players, I do better sometimes on poor paytable machines. I don’t like to play them though much on principal.

[dinghy]

Slots are lumped in with vp in those numbers.

Yes thank you, I should have indicated.

[olds442jetaway]

Some more of what has happened in my play the last few weeks has been posted in another thread in the Strategy section. The bottom line is this. For the first time in 25 plus years of playing video poker, I have had 12 positive sessions. Is this the beginning of making up for 25 negative years? Time will tell. Have I discovered something that will work with perfect discipline? Time will tell. Can I overcome a negative EV? I seriously doubt it, but if I am smart, can I ride at or near the top of the sine curve and bail out before disaster strikes? Time will tell. For this brief moment in history....” Time Is On My Side “.....The Stones. Played that one on my guitar after more than a few beers in the 1960s more times than I can count.

[FAA]

For the first time in 25 plus years of VP, I have had 12 positive sessions. Making up for 25 negative years? Have I discovered something that will work with perfect discipline? Time will tell. Can I overcome a negative EV? I seriously doubt it, but can I ride at or near the top of the sine curve and bail out before disaster strikes?
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Absolutely. Most sessions are either positive upon leaving or positive and self sabotaged by greed, desire to keep on playing, boredom, etc. Another self sabotage last trip. Incorporate a sixty to ninety minute activity smack in the middle of your block of play and watch your results dramatically improve. We must halve our coin in. We're literally playing into the casino's hands!

[FAA]

Saturday is the 13th. I propose that everyone on a casino trip make one $13 bet in Olds’ honor. My favorite machines are too inflexible, so I’ll do $10 twice. They would be max, so I’d approach his optimal result.

[Eduardo]

Do you mean 12 positive sessions IN A ROW? I have certainly never come anywhere close to that.