Long Term is in The Eyes of the Beholder

[billryan]

Doesn't Harrahs Laughlin have a non smoking casino? I know they have a non smoking bar with decent (for Harrahs) VP.
Trying to define the long term by anything but a defined number of hands is ludicrous.
Evidently, joining the board educated you about video poker. How is that a bad thing?
Before I took Logic, Sets and Numbers, I had a wrong impression of how the term average is used and computed. Now that I know better, should I still use the my old methods just because many people make the same mistake?
Long term in math has zero to do with time. Is there a chart that breaks down expected results by time?

[onemoretry]

Doesn't Harrahs Laughlin have a non smoking casino?

Yes, they do. We play the bulk of our 50 line 5c play there. In addition, there are four machines there with single line 8/5 bonus poker at $1, $2 and $5 denominations, and a single one with 3/5/10 line airport deuces at 25c and 50c.

[FloridaPhil]

Quite honestly, I have no clue as to the approximate number of hands I've played, particularly in Vegas.

I keep pretty decent records of my play. This started back in 2008 when I had multiple W2-Gs and was concerned about being audited. According to my records, game odds do a pretty accurate job of predicting my annual results. The exception is hitting a big pot shot jackpot.

When I played the same game at the same denomination like I did when I played Bonus Poker, my results were a little better than what the odds predicted thanks to five royals in one year. Switching games and denomination is a mixed bag. A $4,000 dollar royal flush pot shot covers quarter game losses for a long time. I must admit pot shots costs me more than I make on them. I still take them as the excitement is worth more to me than the cost.