--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@...> wrote:
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> Heres a great game to play. Grab a deck of cards and sit down at the kitchen table. This is gonna take a while so quit your job.<snip>
The great benefit of doing all that is so when you are out playing video poker and see similar patterns you can say to yourself "This machine is rigged just as bad as that deck of cards I got back home."
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Mickey,
Your post reminded me of when I first started to learn blackjack card counting about 15 or 16 years ago. Early on I went through a stretch where I had the absolute worst luck imaginable. Seemed like every single time I put out a max bet the dealer would blackjack, or the dealer would beat every big bet 20 with a multiple card 21. Double down and split hands - automatic losers. It was just mind-numbing. My results were so bad that I was almost 100% certain that I was being cheated, except....
... that I was dealing all the cards to myself at home.
In the long run this was probably a benefit to me. I learned a good early lesson in just how badly things can go south, even when we have the advantage.
EE
