Losing trips and Discipline

[stevel96a1]

my last several trips were losers, i try to have a positive mind before and after each visit but when you don't get 4 of a kind of royal you begin thinking will the losing cycle ends? im discarding my belief of every 10hr of video poker would yield +/- results if not for the comps then why try video poker?
i hit two royals in 40min of each other maybe 30min at the casino and i played on my phone and snagged two royals of same amount of play are all RNG equal? do cards really come out same?


how do you guys handle losing and discipline?
going in believing im going to win maybe the wrong approach especially at the games i play
and positive attitude maybe the wrong approach? setting myself up for failure yet the comps over power that horrid pay table

[onemoretry]

going in believing im going to win maybe the wrong approach especially at the games i play
and positive attitude maybe the wrong approach? setting myself up for failure yet the comps over power that horrid pay table

If you truly believe you are going to win every time you sit down at a machine, you're delusional. You can hope you'll come out ahead, but, realistically, you will lose more often than you win.

[Carcounter]

Personally, I never get too up or too down after a winning or losing session. I look at the long term. I keep records and play 99.5% or better games. For any given year I am slightly positive if I am over-royaled or slightly negative if I am under-royaled.

[advantage playe]

excellent carcounter ! somebody is doing it right !!

[FloridaPhil]

I expect to lose and play accordingly. When I walk out a winner, it's a pleasant surprise. If you knew in advance that you are going to lose, would it affect how you play? Would it matter what game you played? Would you play video poker at all or find something else to do with your time and money?

Believing you will win is what keeps casinos in business. That is why I find the promise of "Advantage Play" so misleading. When you tell people they can beat the casino, you are creating false hopes in the 99.9% of the players who don't.

[Jstark]

I don't "believe" I can win. I "know" I will.

And preferably, I don't want other players doing what I do.

[FloridaPhil]

I don't "believe" I can win. I "know" I will. And preferably, I don't want other players doing what I do.

Interesting comment. From the very beginning, I have always wondered why anyone who discovered a million dollar video poker strategy would sell paper back books to tell the world about it? I am sure there are some people who aren't too happy about this information being released to the public.

Few people have everything it takes to profit from video poker. Even if you live down the street from Red Rock, play only full pay games and have the bankroll of Mike Blumenthal, you probably couldn't or wouldn't do what it is required. What happens is players read about the handful of players who do and assume they can duplicate their results. In return, this creates big profits for casinos.

Like Dirty Harry said, "A man's got to know his limitations".

[stevel96a1]

i know card counters can go months of losing, and im freaking out over several trips but again those trips were not small potatoes to me, and my comps aren't kicking in as fast as they used be, i know its not me since im a creature of habbit and my style of play is consisted of anything i do, how does one keep positive mind while the game itself is negative? my gambling log has both wins and lose trips but again this new log i created last month is not pretty and first time i seen this type of losing behavior

[Tedlark]

I don't "believe" I can win. I "know" I will. And preferably, I don't want other players doing what I do.

Interesting comment. From the very beginning, I have always wondered why anyone who discovered a million dollar video poker strategy would sell paper back books to tell the world about it? I am sure there are some people who aren't too happy about this information being released to the public.

Few people have everything it takes to profit from video poker. Even if you live down the street from Red Rock, play only full pay games and have the bankroll of Mike Blumenthal, you probably couldn't or wouldn't do what it is required. What happens is players read about the handful of players who do and assume they can duplicate their results. In return, this creates big profits for casinos.

Like Dirty Harry said, "A man's got to know his limitations".

Absolutely nothing new in this post Phil and, again, nice slam on Bob Dancer.

[Jstark]

I don't "believe" I can win. I "know" I will. And preferably, I don't want other players doing what I do.

Interesting comment. From the very beginning, I have always wondered why anyone who discovered a million dollar video poker strategy would sell paper back books to tell the world about it? I am sure there are some people who aren't too happy about this information being released to the public.

Few people have everything it takes to profit from video poker. Even if you live down the street from Red Rock, play only full pay games and have the bankroll of Mike Blumenthal, you probably couldn't or wouldn't do what it is required. What happens is players read about the handful of players who do and assume they can duplicate their results. In return, this creates big profits for casinos.

Like Dirty Harry said, "A man's got to know his limitations".

You should know by now which games I'm making my money at. There are also a handful of slot games as well. Some are well known and others not so well known.