What management will do is very unpredictable. I was playing a
progressive years ago and was told to leave. There were other pros
playing next to me and I assumed I was the first of a major purge.
They're all still playing there. But nightoftheiguana has a point.
Many pros act as if there's no cost to hitting jackpots. Reduced
mailers is hardly the only one. 1/2% sounds high, generally, although
in the example that Bob gave in his article, it was many times that.
Playing for a $70,000 royal as if it were worth $70,000 when the cost
of hitting it was most of it would probably reduce the value of the
play by thousands of dollars.
you wrote:
>NOTI wrote: Of course you could afford it if the extra benefit of additional mailers was greater than a half of a percent?
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>You are using after-the-fact thinking.
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>How could I have know I was going to go on a royal binge ahead of time?
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>How could I have known the Suncoast was going to respond as they did?
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>Since then other Boyd properties have gone on their own mailer purges. Had I still be playing at those properties, I might well have been caught up in another purge before now. Many other players were. So how am I going to predict the value of "future mailers?" I can definitely feel the half-percent loss NOW in using your recommended strategy. You seem to want me to compare that to some unknown benefit of receiving mailers in the future.
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>I don't think anybody knows how to do this.
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>Even without these insurmountable problems, I don't believe the mailers there are near a half percent there for strong video poker players.
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>I agree with Harry's description of you. You strike me as a very bright theoretical analyst with very little tempering from the real world problems players face.
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