--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bob Dancer <bobdancervp@...> wrote:
> Vegasvpplayer wrote: It will be a sad day for video poker players if casinos allow the use of electronic devices in the casino to assist players. The only possible outcome will be the downgrade of the few playable opportunities that remain.
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>> I disagree. Using an iPhone APP is VERY slow. Playing with a strategy memorized strong players can play at 800-1000 an hour or so. Looking up every hand you can play at a rate of 100 hands an hour or so. Someone who starts out their session looking up every play usually quickly gets bored with the process and abandons it.
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> Usually players using such an APP for playing a lot of hands are not particularly competent. They don't know the game well and they are still making mistakes on some of the hands they don't look up.
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> A decent player with such an APP might check it a few times an hour at most. As a tool it's a useful one but the end result is that most players who have one in the casino do not use it ENOUGH. Just having the APP with them gives them a lot of confidence that they feel they don't need to use the APP.
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> Bottom line, It is a useful-enough tool to the competent player, but I don't think it has much of an effect on a casino's bottom line.
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> Bob
I wouldn't want to be the guy who in 1 in 5,000+ hands decides to check my smartphone app or an online VP site on my smartphone while I'm playing to see if I should keep 3 to the sequential royal versus a made flush playing 50c Aces & Eights and then win a $25,000 royal (or the equivalent payday in another game) only to not get paid by the casino (and possibly worse) because I was using an electronic device to obtain an advantage to analyze the strategy for playing the game.
Perhaps you would, because it would be great publicity for you and Nersesian when you fight it.
BUT for the average player (many of whom don't live in Las Vegas), they can afford neither to lose a $25,000 payday, nor the time out of work to fight it, nor the risk of the possible arrest on their record which could jeopardize their current employment or future employment potential.
For the average person (although it is a stupid and outdated law) it seems ridiculous to take the risk, when you don't have to by alternatively copying and pasting and just printing out a small-font, color-coded, strategy card on heavy-weight paper stock using a $100 inkjet printer and then cutting it to a hand-held size with a pair of scissors (or paying $5.00 and buying an accurate strategy card) for their game(s) of choice and using it sporadically when in doubt about an infrequent play.
Bob: You as a gambler are in the risk/reward business and the risk to you is much different than it would be to most other people. So before you go telling people their is essentially no risk involved in using an electronic device to gain an advantage checking a strategy while playing, why don't you consider their potential risks and not just look at it based on your own.
I realize the casinos would be idiots to try to enforce it, but ... .
ST
