Found 99 percent machines at Mohegan Sun that pay points

[FAA]

A weekly TR is about 100 words. It's useful as writing prompts reflection and hopefully not repeating bad judgment. Me and LV Dan seem to be the scribes.

[olds442jetaway]

I guess I’m a part time associate member Faa. Hee hee

[FAA]

I figured that you were looking over President Lincoln's shoulder as he scrawled on the back of the envelope!

[olds442jetaway]

Actually, I just saw a program about President Lincoln. He had visions in his mirror and there are theories his policies were dictated by . Even strategy in the Civil War

[FloridaPhil]

Why is it then: that you don't report on your weekly casino trips with your best friend Jack?

I never thought that would interest anyone. Would anyone here care if I posted a photo of a $250 quad deuce? My daily bankroll when I play VP is $300. I'm sure Jack carries that much money also. From experience, I have learned this will allow me to play max coin quarter VP for the day and have a good chance at coming home with at least half of my money left. That is my goal.

I could do the same thing with $100 if I played single coin quarter VP. I choose to play max coin quarters for the comps and the thrill of hitting a $1,000 royal flush. The best quarter VP game at the Tampa casino is 7/5 Bonus Poker. I find that boring, so I play Deuces Wild. The odds are about the same. About 3-4 times a year I hit a royal for $1,000. Last year was a banner year for royals. I ended the year with a small profit.

If I am significantly ahead for the day , I will occasionally take a dollar or 50 cent pot shot. I am careful not to feed all my winnings back into the machines. I have one $2,000 W-2G on my tax form in 2018. I very rarely come home broke. Coming home with empty pockets depresses me. I hate it and do everything I can to avoid it.

Jack plays slots. He likes to walk around and find a hot machine. He knows there is no such thing, but he enjoys the hunt. He places minimum bets. A $200 win to him is a big deal. He does not do as well as I do playing video poker. He likes the graphics, music and excitement of the slots. He thinks video poker is boring.

Jack drives his car and uses his gas. I use my comps for our lunches. Jack drinks beer. I don't drink anything but water these days.

We have a great time. We meet up during the day and eat lunch together. We both have similar backgrounds and enjoy reliving our experiences. To us, the casino is an adult theme park. We ride the rides. He picks the ones he likes and so do I. The only difference is that our theme park pays us once in a while.

[Tedlark]

O.k., now how about you respond to Vman and myself where we asked you about WHO the people are that stated beating the casino is something anyone can do along with the forum posts where this was stated?

[FloridaPhil]

We've talked about this many times before, so there no need to drag it on. If you insist, here's your answer.

When you sell books telling people you have a methodology that will consistently beat the casinos, you get a lot of attention. When you tell them this methodology allows you to live a "great lifestyle" off the casinos, you are encouraging people to try it out. When you tell these same people that your strategy involves risking hundreds of thousands of dollars in a slot machine, I believe you are partly responsible for their losses. You are also partly responsible for their winnings. By your own admission, players who experience long term positive VP results are extremely rare.

Adding disclaimers such as "You aren't smart enough to do what I do" or "You don't have enough discipline or skill" does not undo the damage. All those words do is encourage people to try harder.

Here's how this could be avoided. The people writing these books should more clearly emphasis the risks involved. There is absolutely no guarantee playing positive VP games perfectly will make anyone a profit during the time they are in front of the machines. This is true because you don't know how many hands they are going to play and you can't predict what their results will be during that period of time. How can you when you don't know what that period of time is? I don't know anyone on the earth right now that can play VP into infinity.

Here is an example of what I am talking about. This statement was recently made of this forum by one of our experts. I may not have it verbatim, but the meaning is the same. "If you play positive video poker games perfectly, good things will happen." This should have been stated like this. "If you play positive video poker games perfectly, good things are more likely to happen." It's only a slight difference in words, but it clearly states there are risks involved. Disregarding risk in this methodology is where I have issues.

My opinions are not going to change. These experts are going to continue their marketing. We can both agree to disagree. There is no need for me to lecture members. I am sorry for that and I will attempt to tone it down. No gambler likes to be told they will lose. We all want to believe we can beat the game. Few do.

[FAA]

We will lose. Your market's comps make the losing more palatable, presumably because your odds assume higher losses. Let's all try to lose less this year.

[billryan]

A couple hundreds words of parabellum without answering the only question he was actually asked to answer.

[Eduardo]

He answered it.

1) By "Everyone" he means "Bob Dancer"
2) By "On this forum for the past 10 years" he means "in a book more than 15 years ago."

It's actually fairly insulting how you apparently ignore everything anyone has to say around here, Phil. You are so fixated on your thesis that you miss out on the fact that conversations on this forum are nothing like you say. Even Bob D's own posts here (which are rare) do not reflect what you project.