--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, patricia swenson <jackessiebabe@...> wrote:
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> Perhaps it's because as "everyone" watches the meter rise, they are also watching their bankroll shrink at an alarming rate.
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> BTW, assuming play on one of the less volatile games, BP (96.87%) what would you suggest as a sensible bankroll to carry, to avoid risk of ruin? That is, if the player is determined to sit at the prog. bank until he, or someone else, hits the royal, on that game.
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First of all, one royal on these machines is not going to set one up on easy street for the remainder of one's life. On the contrary, as soon as you hit one you could easily watch it go right back down the drain, all $3000 of it.
This is really quite an easy thing to prepare oneself for, and assuming that most people on this board already have WinPoker they could easily prepare themselves mentally by doing several high speed simulations. Go ahead and set up WinPoker, and then run a million hands, and watch what happens. And then do it again, and again, and again. You will see that going DOWN 40,000 coins is not that difficult to do. But guess what, at the end of 3 or 4 million hands, you're probably going to be sitting pretty with a very healthy profit. And that's the way it works. There is no way to get around it.
Variance is YOUR FRIEND!
