How was your 1st Quarter of the Year?

[spxChrome]

Billyjoe, my game of choice ... One-eyed Jacks Wild (100.28%).
 

[BillyJoe]

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Billyjoe, my game of choice ... One-eyed Jacks Wild (100.28%).
 
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Oh, I see now. In an effort to improve my own VP play returns, asking for some insight from a couple of people who profess to be successful at VP is apparently viewed with fear and sarcasm. Sorry to have bothered you.... 

[Webman]

Actually, he's entirely serious, billyjoe.

[cddenver]

Oh, I see now. In an effort to improve my own VP play returns, asking for some insight from a couple of people who profess to be successful at VP is apparently viewed with fear and sarcasm. Sorry to have bothered you.... 
 
Sorry, billyjoe, I didn't mean to give the impression that I was holding out on any secret info.  I'm not.    On a small amount of 50-cent play this year I was fortunate enough to hit a RF (luck).  On an even smaller amount of $1 play I've had two sessions with nice runs of quads (more luck).  High denomination play for me is anything over $.25, and I rarely play anything over $.25 unless I'm ahead for the session and about ready to go home, then I might take part of those winnings and give a higher denom a try.  If I hit an early quad at a higher denom I'll consider myself a lucky duck and go home.  If I've lost on my $.25 play then I don't play any higher denoms at all.  One thing I will take credit for is shopping around different casinos in the area for the best CB/BB.  For anyone who's going to play anyway, that's free money.  Practicing hands with my VP tutor program also helps.
 
Colorado has a cap of 100% on game returns.  Since there are no types of VP with exactly 100% return, that means all games in casinos here are negative return.  If we had games with returns >100% with near-perfect play then that's the strategy I'd follow.

[Lucky Larry]

This first quarter we haven't hit a RF( 25¢ or higher) or gotten a G-statement.

Same thing happened in 2006 and 2007 for the first quarter. Both years ended up being decent including Ms. LL hitting 6 RF in a two week period in 2007. Last year combined we averaged 1+ RF/month and almost 1 G's/month - 25¢ or greater

I haven't seen a G since getting two on the same night on MH 5¢ way back in September. And, we have only had one RF each since October. My Progress RF on our November cruise and a RF in December for Ms. LL.

With the economy, we are playing much lower denominations and our favorite casino lowered the pay tables. So smaller G accounts means playing lower denominations.   Now we are mostly playing multi-hand 5¢ (which have been lowered from 99% to 97-98% in December). I did have a good night two weeks ago with hits on 25¢ SDDB hitting multiple quads and AWAKS and then Aces on $1. In addition several $1K+ tickets on MH 5¢ the first quarter have kept us in the game. Sometimes it takes a couple of hours to work up to those tickets, but they are really nice since we don't get a G statement. Hey, a RF is $200 so we'll take those. Hope a better second quarter comes for everyone.

LL   

[shadowman]

I realize OEJs not a normal game but it is real. You can even find it in Las Vegas if you search hard enough. So, no sarcasm whatsoever. Here's some info on it.
http://wizardofodds.com/videopoker/OneEyedJacks.html
 
It's the only game in my area that returns close to 100%. It probably has the hardest strategy to perfect, but it's not too hard to get with a couple of tenths of a percent.

[New2vp]

 
It's the only game in my area that returns close to 100%. It probably has the hardest strategy to perfect, but it's not too hard to get with a couple of tenths of a percent.Billyjoe, Wolf Video Poker has a basic strategy with no penalty cards that purports to produce a bit over 100.24% of the perfect-play 100.28% game that shadowman referenced.But as he said, even the basic strategy is difficult with the best plays dependent on the number of wild cards and often involving 2-card straight flushes or single card holds where you have to pay attention to whether the suits of your held cards are Hearts/Spades (the suits of the wild one-eyed jacks) or Diamonds/Clubs (the suits of the non-wild two-eyed jacks) and also whether the range of straights and straight flushes that are possible to hit includes or excludes a jack.Using some parlance from previous threads, it's a head-exploding strategy!You can also find a semblance of a strategy at http://www.vpgenius.com/video-poker/one ... .aspx#Good luck

[BillyJoe]

Well, thanks for setting me straight everyone. Coming from a non-casino state (Florida), I had never seen a VP game with one-eyed jacks in my travels to casinos around the US. I apologize for my remarks earlier, and I appreciate the insight.

[CHITOWN]

Thus far I am 0 for '10.Have made 5 casino trips & have sustained 5 losses of at least $200.00 a crack (play at the .25 level) I can't be THAT bad of a player......or can I ? Anyway,no winning sessions for 1st 1/4 of year!

[shadowman]

Chitown, last year I had two runs of 5 straight session losses, another couple at 4 and an ugly one of 8 straight. This year my longest bad streak is 3 losses but I just ended a 7 session win streak (let's hope that isn't the start of a bad streak) which matched my best of last year.