Counting winning hands in vp

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olds442jetaway
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Counting winning hands in vp

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     Most will consider this little experiment meaningless, useless, and too expensive, but I have tried it on very low denomination machines where it won't cost much money and it worked well. The downside seems to be that you need between 8 and 12 hours of play to have a pretty good chance of having it work. This is a version of Martingale clone and I intend to combine it with CS. In regular Deuces Wild, you are supposed to get a hand with more than your money back about every 6 hands. I keep it pretty simple. Every time you fail to get a hand that pays 2 for 1 or more in 6 consecutive hands, the bet goes up one unit. However, if you get a winning hand of 2 for 1 or more in less than 6 hands, you back your bet down 1 unit. You need a single line machine that will allow you to vary your bet from 1 to 25 units and even better if it lets you vary denomination as well. I am only using this in connection with CS on hits of 4 or more which appear in the long run only every ten hands or so. I am only applying these rules to max bet bets so I would have to have 6 consecutive max coin bets at 5 that were losers before my next max coin bet called for would be bet 6. It had one live trial so far and it worked well on a quarter game. There is a little more about this on the recreational play posts. At least it keeps my interest up in the game and there is a little extra excitement when you have a chance once in awhile of a big hand with a pretty good sized bet made too.

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