A New Beginning?? Nah

[jcs152112]

After completely giving up video poker for money nearly 2 years ago, my outlook for the future of the game hasn't changed. I started about 6 months ago with a daily spread sheet showing all four of a kinds by their value on a daily basis. Sheet includes all royals, Aces with kickers, Aces only, 4 2,3,4 with kickers, 4 2,3,4's, and all lower value 4ok and straight flushes. This past month was an effort in sheer futility. In a 30 day time period I was out scored by almost 30000 points! That is 1000 points daily! Man, I'm getting the old Bern feeling, where it is rigged against me and I will never hit anything again. Oh well, at least I haven't lost any money on the deal!! And sadly, July started with 500 hands of nothing. I'm already 5000 behind after 1 day!

[FloridaPhil]

[quote=jcs152112] In a 30 day time period I was out scored by almost 30000 points! That is 1000 points daily![/quote] I feel your pain...    Here's the scoop.  Yes, the game is rigged against you!  If you play negative games you will lose.  If you play positive games you could lose too, but you may have a small chance of coming out ahead in the long run.   If you play high variance games you will lose faster.  If you don't play perfectly you will lose more. If you jump around playing different games looking for a hot hand, you will never find it.For the average player in today's VP world, making money playing video poker is a myth.  There is some truth to it, but most of what you read is BS or salesmanship.  If you learn to play one low variance game perfectly, manage your money well and stop going for the big score you will have fun, enjoy the game and stop worrying about rigged games and conspiracies.   We are our own worst enemy and the casino is using our human frailties as a weapon.  Think about it...

[FAA]

Play one low variance game perfectly, manage money well and stop going for the big score.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ABC. Time tested technique in actual casinos by both of us.

[TsuDoNihm]

JCS, just to clarify, you are talking about contests here and not casino play right?I just ask because that's what it seemed to me, but the responses didn't seem to match.

[jcs152112]

as I said, I have not been to a casino in 2 years. I went from 4 trips to Vegas a year to zero, the local Indian dump from 20 to zero, the local race track rip off joint 10+ to zero. I only play here....and losing for free still isn't any fun

[TsuDoNihm]

Losing sucks no matter the circumstances, and the best I can say
is you're in good company.


I too have kept track of different things, mostly those that are
most apparent at the moment.  Last fall I'd noticed it seemed
pretty rare for me to get a quad when dealt 3 aces and soon after
that
I was dealt 3 aces in a "frenzy" game.  22 or 23 hands and ZIP for
quads.  So I started taking screen shots when it
happened.  Right off the bat I got another 24 hand "Frenzy" which
I whiffed again.  A week later I finally got one on ten play,
(no kicker), after a total of about 118 opportunities in 14 dealt
hands.  A recent try of the same thing netted 65 chances with zip until I
hit a few on hundred play.



My favorite total loser story regards Double Pay.  I'd played it
in the casino and many times in contests but had never had dealt
hand greater than a full house.  It's rare for me to play an
entire 12 sessions but this time I decided to do so regardless of
how I was doing.  With a total of 6,000 dealt hands in the 12
sessions, (50 games x 10 deals per game times 12 = 6,000), I
figured I'd have a pretty decent shot at a dealt hand seeing as
they "are supposed" to come about every 5,000 hands.  Nope. 
Didn't get a single one.  But after finishing that debacle I
started a new game in a different contest and on the VERY FIRST hand I
was dealt a quad.  (Since then I've got my Double Pay dealt quad,
once, and a low 5-k one).


Just yesterday I was dealt a rare quad aces, (rare for me
anyway), without a kicker in the Double STP contest.  5 hands to
get something good.  There was no initial multiplier, nor did one
come up on the draw, and I didn't get a kicker in any of the 5
hands.  I've played about 25 sessions of that contest so far and
suspect that will be the best I'll be able to do.  My best score? 
6,720 and I'm currently ranked at 1,180.  It just seems kind of
sad that even with dealt quad aces you can't end up in the top
1,000.
As for why it is that way, who knows.  It could be I just suck at VP, but
from what the various data I've gathered over the years shows I'm pretty sure
it's more of a matter of my being excellent at both failing to convert
hands at a rate that greatly exceeds expectations as well as the uncanny
ability to get absolute crap on the vast majority of deals.  YMMV.
And on the other end of the spectrum are people that get amazingly
large wins on a frequent basis, and if you keep track of the leader
board you'll see the same names over and over again.  This may be due in
part to their playing far more than others, but they still manage to
rack up scores that I all but never get on the weekly, monthly, and even
Keno, some of which allow for limited play.  Just a few days ago I made
a post about that on another thread which I won't repeat here, but you
can read it at:

http://forum.videopoker.com/forum/forum ... p?TID=8322

I don't know how much longer I'm going to play.  It's gotten to where
it's far more frustrating than fun.  I was going to stop 7/1, but
thought I'd see how I do in the monthly.  Last 2 months I didn't get any
royals, nor any quad deuces playing DBDW, despite that being somewhere
around 75 % of what I played and being dealt trip deuces 13 times.  This
month I'm going to go 100% DBDW and see what happens.  $5 says I won't
get quad deuces this time either.