Poker Poker Poker!: Re: [vpFREE] Re: Bob Dancer's LVA

Bob: I have a couple of questions for you .

What percentage of your reading public do you think aim to get to the level of accuracy that you do ?

What kind of feedback do you get on your columns when you get into the very fine points of playing individual hands ?

My own strategy is to be as close to perfect as I can be on the game that I play the most 9/6 JoB and play very solid basic strategy on all the other games that I dabble in. I'm one of those players that does not play for a living. My objective is to go to a casino, have fun, get all my rooms and meals picked up by the casino, the odd bit of entertainment, and with free play and cash back go home with the money I came with. I've been accomplishing this for a lot of years.

If I worked at playing the game like you it would be like having a job. OOPS I forgot that is your job. When I worked I sought perfection, it was a job requirement. Now I am retired, this is a job that I am really good at. If you ever retire look me up and I will give you advice on how to enjoy retirement.

Like I said in my initial post some of your writing is for a very small portion of your readership. I like to read all of your columns, but as soon as you go into one of your lectures on the finest small points of how to play specific hands, I stop reading.

Winpoker works as well today as always. It just doesn't cover anywhere near as many games as there are out there now.

A proper business that had Winpoker as it's main product would be putting out yearly updates to handle the newer games.

Would you think Winpoker was a good training platform for Quick Quads?

Thanks

A.P.

From: "Bob Dancer bobdancervp@hotmail.com [vpFREE]" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
To: "vpfree@yahoogroups.com" <vpfree@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 8:11:23 PM
Subject: RE: [vpFREE] Re: Bob Dancer's LVA - 29 JUL 2014

Albert Pearson

wrote (snip):

I had a very long career at IBM mainly working on computer programs that constantly required changes. You are correct about testing but are clearly wrong about programs being static. I think you [Bob] used a poor comparison.

Dan Paymar added:

I agree with you completely, Albert. I've been programming computers since 1957, and I've never seen a program that was widely used that was static. Things change in the world of video poker, and so Optimum Video Poker keeps changing and growing, adding requested features.

In general Albert and Dan are correct about computer programs evolving over time.

However, from the context of the article, the "computer program" metaphor I was talking about consisted of playing NSU Deuces Wild (or other video poker game) completely accurately.

And that has NOT CHANGED.

I am not talking about Paymar's Optimum Play strategies. Those changed regularly with each edition of his book --- and every time he swore that his latest strategy was the best possible for players to use. I was talking about perfect strategy. That has not changed.

Anybody who still uses WinPoker (including me) is using a program that hasn't been altered in 15 years or so (other than adapting to newer versions of Windows). It worked well 15 years ago. It works well today.