Bob Bartop wrote:
>--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "rob.singer1111" <rob.singer1111@...> wrote:
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>> Not too shabby, of course. But she lost--as most people will who play these progressives, especially those who just drop in for a quick shot at them. If you don't have all day and night today, tomorrow and the next day with a $20,000 bankroll for quarters only, you're just going to be a major part of building the progressive jackpots for those who do.
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>I'm not going to argue the point ad nauseum, but playing ANY video poker game regardless of the pay table for a period less than a million hands is "statistically insignificant". I just cannot get into the mindset of walking away "winner" or "loser" for the day. It means nothing. I have NEVER thought like that, even when I was a teenager and still wet behind the ears. If the concept of a "winning day" is that important, then I recommend getting a job.
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>Even as a poker player "having a winning day" has never meant squat to me. Playing correctly and playing with a mathematical edge, is the ONLY thing that matters.
I care so little about short term results that I find even being asked
how I did recently to be excruciating. I had played video poker for a
while just before joining a friend to watch a Super Bowl. He
good-naturedly asked me how I did and I couldn't even bring myself to
answer. One thing I like about what Rob pointed out about
progressives is that the fact that I'm probably not going to hit any
particular one makes it easy for me to accept losing, since it's the
most likely result. But it's funny how the same skill of having a
long run point of view doesn't always apply to other areas of life. I
used to play tennis a lot. Particularly after "playing well" for a
while, when I then "played poorly," I'd get so mad, whether at myself,
the ball, my racket, the weather, God, or whatever. It never occurred
to me until years later that the difference between the two was just
luck, which I could have accepted as calmly as I usually accept luck
in gambling.
