Just can't seem to win, but I have a theory..

[Arnold Fischer]

I am a casual player, just recently learned Poker (Video Poker). I am a casual slot player but never seem to actually hit any substantial money. When I say casual I mean I may visit casinos 4-5 times a year, Indian, and Vegas casino's.

My playing habit is visit random slots slide in about $2-$300.00 and hope to hit big (that doesn't happen), so last January I played about $6-$700 in a couple vegas casinos and never hit any substantial pots.

Last night in an indian casino in NY and invested about $300 in video poker (changed to 3 machines over the course) and played for about 2 hours but again never hit any big pots (If I play computer video poker I can usually stay afloat ).

So do I simply need to run a bigger bank roll through to wait out the pots?

[olds442jetaway]

Maybe, but there is still no guarantee. Most of the bigger hits happen after anywhere from 5,000-700,000 hands. Even then it could take much longer than that. You of course could hit one in your firsto km
minutes of play, but that is rare.

[rsactuary]

the reason you can stay afloat on line is because the pay tables are full pay. They are not in the casino, so you'll find a faster drain.

[olds442jetaway]

I guess it depends which casino. The problem is short term results can be longer than one’s lifetime. There are still quite a few 99.5 percent return casinos and even 100 or just over with promotions if you time it right. There are just no guarantees unfortunately.