Bounce Back Cash maximizing?

[onemoretry]

and thats WITHOUT running them through my program.
 You have a programme to analyse postings? Geez, most of us do that with our brains.

[backsider]

[QUOTE=backsider]I can list at least a half dozen bad conclusions, contradictions, and misrepresentations in Bobs last two posts, and thats WITHOUT running them through my program. But, in the interest of civility, Ill let them pass.

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  Doubtful. All you can do is to list things you disagree with. But nobody knowledgeable about video poker believes you know squat about the subject. So saying somethng that you disagree with is hardly a shameful thing. Bob[/QUOTE]

Oh go ahead, its gang up on backsider day! Dont you know Im trying to turn over a new leaf. Guess Ill take the high road and just boycott your products. By the way Im still waiting for an invite on your show. The whole base would listen.

[royal flush]

read some of bob's posts in las vegas advisor he explains in detail on the value of promotions,bounce backs, comps you might learn something. altough bob by selling his books flash cards educated the weakest players, hurting the game selection, that is capitalism and we must adapt or parrish. and instead of insulting folks like bob learn

[backsider]

Im not insulting him royal. Im just jealous. Capitalism is the only true way of starting out as a nobody and ending up as a somebody.

[royal flush]

ok altough he has been a leading cause of many good plays/paytables on vp he found the edge and sold his product unlike jean scott whom educated some of the public to use coupons and promotions and to play vp instead of slot without making every tourist to avoid poor playing games. as 97% vp with coupons/comps is far better then 92% slots

[OTABILL]

Knowing how to "play the game" is crucial when the "house" has the advantage.

Knowledge is truly our best protection. Then pray for luck!
 

Luck or good fortune is more important then paytables
or "how to play the game" for recreational players. At least it has
been that way for me. I haven't had a royal since February 2010 and only AWAK
twice in that time frame. I have read  2
books, practiced and learned on Bob's software (as did my wife) and have had an
incredible dry streak. I hold a pair of 2s and throw away 3 cards including an
ace and get dealt 3 aces. I hold a pair of 6s and do the same thing and get
dealt 3 aces. In all the years I have been playing VP I have never been dealt 4
aces let alone a royal at a casino. The amount of funds we have budgeted for VP
gets used up rather quickly so, we have drastically cut back on our visits to
the local casinos.

[Tedlark]

  Shadow I ran backsiders recent posts through my program and according to the computations he was on tilt again. I even had a few other programmers on my base run them just for verification purposes and the result was the same.  As mayor of Munchkinland I hearby proclaim: "That na'er a day goes by, when shadow's numbers don't lie; that the naysayers, conspiracy theorists, and doubters cry fowl, stammer hoot and howl; that the sun, does in fact rise in the east then sets to the west; and videopoker.com is simply the best.

[BillyJoe]

A $5 TIP ??   If I played in that same casino with Bob, I would get my handpays at warp-speed, then.. [/QUOTE]
 
Remember, I'm getting two of these handpays per hour. Tipping $10 per hour is a significant portion of my EV.
 
Players who rarely get handpays often tip more per handpay --- but tip less overall because they have fewer tipping opportunities. Players who don't play for a living tip more for the "fun" and "excitement" of jackpots. To me jackpots are an everyday occurrence.
 

I have had 500 or so $20,000+ jackpots. I do tip more than $5 on those. But the smaller ones? Often nothing at all.
 
Many professional players don't tip at all. I'm actually tipping MORE at South Point than I do elsewhere because I teach there and don't wish to alienate the workers. The same jackpots at other casinos are not tip-worthy in my opinion.
 
I get between $5 million and $10 million in W2Gs a year. Every year. And I've been playing for these stakes for more than 15 years. I've had enough jackpots that I could easily have tipped an extra $500,000 over my career were I to follow the patterns of more generous tippers. Had I done that, my bankroll would currently be a half-million less than it is now.
 
Win or lose, though, I'm almost always friendly and courteous to all casino workers. I've had many tell me they'll take that in lieu of tips any day. A grump or a jerk who tips is no fun to be around --- although certainly employees will take the tips from them as well.
 
Bob[/QUOTE]
You are probably correct, Bob. I am a recreational player from a non-casino state. Overall, we may tip the same amounts in total, since my hand-pays occur only during gaming trips lasting a couple of days each. But I know that when I return to casinos that a frequent, like Caesars LV or The Beau Rivage in Biloxi, I feel that the floor personnel are genuinely happy to see me. If I was a 'stiff', though, I am not too sure they would go out of there way to greet me.
 
I am not trying to 'buy' their affection, but I was raised to be appreciative of the services that others provide to me, and tipping is a way to show that. The economics of tipping as it relates to EV for my play, of course, makes no sense. 
 
On a lighter note, I saw a guy in Hi Limit in Caesars AC on my last trip who had been over-served, and he knew it. He tipped the cocktail waitress $100 every time she came by and did NOT serve him another drink.   

[BobDancer]

Im not insulting him royal. Im just jealous. Capitalism is the only true way of starting out as a nobody and ending up as a somebody.
 Open letter to Backsider: Really? Calling somebody a nobody, after saying he is frequently wrong and inconsistent and you don't believe half the things he says --- are you sure none of that constitutes an insult?  If saying you're jealous means you respect what I am saying, why don't you just shut up and learn from people who know rather than continuously spouting your own idiotic theories? You are by far the biggest disruptive force on this site.   I am very close to giving Webman the ultimatum of either you or me. Either you stop posting or I do. If you can limit your postings to, say, once a week or so I won't have to do this. But posting as often as you do and as disruptively as you do is more aggravating than I wish to put up with.  There is no doubt in my mind that this site has a high percentage of recreational players and many don't care for my theories. That's fine. Being a successful gambler isn't easy and certainly isn't for everybody. But there is also no doubt in my mind that there are many on this site who are trying to learn to be better players and consider me one of the best sources of information out there. You continually get in the way of that process. I've found almost nobody who respects or appreciates what you have to say. Bob  

[backsider]

Theres one even bigger difference between us Bob. I dont have a problem stopping my posting or being 86ed, because I came here to understand vp better and offer my opinions and criticisms that "successful" people should be able to handle. But when the big cheese cant handle anything but praise and idolizing and desperately delivers an 11th hour ultimatum, count it as a victory over one of those nobodys whove help pay your bills all these years.

Before Im gone, Im again asking you to man up and invite me onto your show. I will at first allow you to denegrate my way of playing video poker, then the ratings will go through the roof as I show how a non-babyboomer 20-year junior who was never too selfish to have children, can put a sharpie in his place.

And one more request. Why dont you splain something that someone else has brought up several times over the years that would make a lot of sense to us little people if we saw a real explanation for a change. You complain when I say I (and my program) dont believe half of what you claim. So how is it you tell us you win hundreds of thousands from the casinos every year, then you jump onto the other side of the fence and tell us how much belt tightening is going on, you brag about your notoriety and how much you play and how high your slot club status is at the casinos you say you play at all the time, but none of them ever seem to have a problem with how much you apparently take them and their slot clubs for year after year? How do you splain that? You mean they just LET you take them for whatever you want?

When I saw this question I right away started wondering, and lots of others did too. "Half" may be a little too generous.