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DAAnMAAn
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Re: My Journey on Video Poker
Good day. A fellow forum member and I took hellacious AC beat downs today. You're a smart and disciplined player, staying on quarters no matter what, which is more than I can say for myself.
Thanks but your giving me too much credit. In the past have made the jump to higher denominations and either payed the price or gotten the price. One thing that keeps me at quarters is the stupid W2G tax forms, where the threshold is still $1199 when it should be around $5500 adjusted for inflation.
At any rate, I can write them off but they still add up at the end of the year as taxable income, which is usually a problem for us as we tinker on the edge of percentage tax hikes....and, not to mention, a little easier on the wallet for the most part. One year in the past had $12,000 in w2g's and it was an issue, albeit, a manageable one.
Cheers
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DAAnMAAn
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Got some back in a relatively short session (1 hr) of
Play. On the .25c 10/6 DDB...to my surprise,
Royal has not been hit since my last session and progressive is up to $1185. A very nice number. Unfortunately, I was getting stomach pains and tired or would of played much longer to try to eat some royal with cheese. But, alas, was a positive session for a change,
+$150, hitting some unimpressive quad here or there to stay in it, and then in about a 7 minute time hit a straight flush and quad deuces with kicker. So, there it is. Going to the store to get some pepto and ticked I couldn't play longer.
Cheers
Play. On the .25c 10/6 DDB...to my surprise,
Royal has not been hit since my last session and progressive is up to $1185. A very nice number. Unfortunately, I was getting stomach pains and tired or would of played much longer to try to eat some royal with cheese. But, alas, was a positive session for a change,
+$150, hitting some unimpressive quad here or there to stay in it, and then in about a 7 minute time hit a straight flush and quad deuces with kicker. So, there it is. Going to the store to get some pepto and ticked I couldn't play longer.
Cheers
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FAA
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DDB grants straight flush too much stature for its meager payout!
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DAAnMAAn
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Expensive chase for the Royal.
Checked on the bank of .25c 10/6 DDB and saw the Royal was still running at $1202. So decided I was going to hammer on it tonight and go for broke!...Well, Went broke, -$770.
Machine was going to give up nothing and be stubborn as can be. Not my worst session, but certainly makes the top 10 list,
Maybe top 5....as nothing better than a few regular quads and one straight flush in 4 hours of blah.
Bad night to gun it, but I know it's a variant game and blank runs can and will happen. So had to raise the white flag and walk away to live to fight another day. Welcome to vp, cast iron stomache peeps!
Cheers
Checked on the bank of .25c 10/6 DDB and saw the Royal was still running at $1202. So decided I was going to hammer on it tonight and go for broke!...Well, Went broke, -$770.
Machine was going to give up nothing and be stubborn as can be. Not my worst session, but certainly makes the top 10 list,
Maybe top 5....as nothing better than a few regular quads and one straight flush in 4 hours of blah.
Bad night to gun it, but I know it's a variant game and blank runs can and will happen. So had to raise the white flag and walk away to live to fight another day. Welcome to vp, cast iron stomache peeps!
Cheers
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FAA
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25c 10/6 DDB Royal was still running, $1202. So decided to hammer on it tonight and go for broke! Went broke,
-$770.
Machine was going to give up nothing and be stubborn as can be. Not my worst session, but certainly makes the top 10 list, maybe top 5.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------They certainly dropped the hammer on you! I cannot even take a third of that loss. You lost your senses in addition to BR. DW far safer. Just wow.
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Waiting4RF
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Dan, Sorry about the losses. Thanks for the honest posts showing us that full pay VP in Vegas doesn't make a winner. Hopefully you will get some comps/mailers to make up for your losses.
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billryan
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People playing highly volatile games get what they want. It's a series of peaks and valleys. Play JOB if you can't deal with the swings. Nice thing about DDB and those sort of games is you get some huge losses, while eventually reverting to the norm. Casinos love people who lose big.
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DAAnMAAn
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VP gods decide some mercy.
So anyone following my thread knows I've been grossly under-royaled the last couple of months. I stopped counting after 3 cycles but probably somewhere in between 3-4 cycles. Surely one of the main reasons I've had some negative months, not to mention, just running bad...which doesn't help either.
Well, I managed to pop a royal tonight on .25c fpdw. +$870.
Planned on a session bankroll of $200 and pretty much slowly went to zero. I had $50 bucks left in my pocket and though might as well go empty on this one too before I take off shaking my head and wondering why the vp gods decided to turn on me. Well, went well right away hitting two royals with deuce and a 5 of a kind and managed to push the $50 bucks to $120 when I flop 4 diamonds to the Royal. I quickly saved the 4 to a Royal figuring I will miss like the thousands of times before, but no, not this time. Ping! Royal no deuce and thanks to the mercy of the brutality yesterday on .25c 10/6 DDB as I make up for that Goliath loss and then some.
So, some needed medicine for the future battles.
Cheers
PS Yes, DDB, TDB, triple deuces, etc, are variant games and one can expect larger swings in both directions. you know the saying; 'If you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen!'
So anyone following my thread knows I've been grossly under-royaled the last couple of months. I stopped counting after 3 cycles but probably somewhere in between 3-4 cycles. Surely one of the main reasons I've had some negative months, not to mention, just running bad...which doesn't help either.
Well, I managed to pop a royal tonight on .25c fpdw. +$870.
Planned on a session bankroll of $200 and pretty much slowly went to zero. I had $50 bucks left in my pocket and though might as well go empty on this one too before I take off shaking my head and wondering why the vp gods decided to turn on me. Well, went well right away hitting two royals with deuce and a 5 of a kind and managed to push the $50 bucks to $120 when I flop 4 diamonds to the Royal. I quickly saved the 4 to a Royal figuring I will miss like the thousands of times before, but no, not this time. Ping! Royal no deuce and thanks to the mercy of the brutality yesterday on .25c 10/6 DDB as I make up for that Goliath loss and then some.
So, some needed medicine for the future battles.
Cheers
PS Yes, DDB, TDB, triple deuces, etc, are variant games and one can expect larger swings in both directions. you know the saying; 'If you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen!'
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FAA
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Congratulations. Stunning. I would just crawl away after a $200 loss on a quarter game!
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DAAnMAAn
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Congratulations. Stunning. I would just crawl away after a $200 loss on a quarter game!
My steadfastness to keep playing Could likely Chalk it up to a few things: good old stubborn, higher tolerance for vp pain, lack of intelligence lol, bigger bankroll, high tolerance level, who knows. Some people can be like Rocky and take the bigger punches, some can't. So the vp gods don't care for each spin is supposedly independent of the next and the grind continues.
My steadfastness to keep playing Could likely Chalk it up to a few things: good old stubborn, higher tolerance for vp pain, lack of intelligence lol, bigger bankroll, high tolerance level, who knows. Some people can be like Rocky and take the bigger punches, some can't. So the vp gods don't care for each spin is supposedly independent of the next and the grind continues.
