With your success, why don't you play more? Or, by not playing "a lot" are you actually using your own version of "win goals, loss limits, and stop losses"??Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
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With your success, why don't you play more? Or, by not playing "a lot" are you actually using your own version of "win goals, loss limits, and stop losses"??Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
I don't think that's a valid observation at all. I think it's just that if you are good at sports betting it doesn't necessarily mean you will also be good at video poker play. They are totally different, after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
And I don't think anyone has ever called Rob Singer a video poker expert. To be an "expert" you only need to know the conventional strategy. Frankly, I know the conventional strategy darn well. And the few games I don't know darn well I could quickly look up and learn. So, there isn't much to being a video poker expert, is there?
I reiterate that I see no connection between VP and sports. Years ago when we put out a sheet, it was mostly based upon my picks and I had final say on all mixed decisions. We consistently won about 57-60% (not great but a profit) and had a good following. I have never had luck at VP whether playing for fun or attempting to play for profit, despite nearly perfect play (nearly because we all make mistakes or don't see that pair of 6's now and then).
We were asked by some nice gentlemen (think Chicago) to stop publishing the sheet and we kindly complied.
Didn't anybody watch the NBA game tonight?
Redietz asks if I'm one of the experts. In a way, yes, I am, but please don't loop me in with the likes of Paymar, Dancer, or Frank. I'm a winning vp player who developed my own way of doing so, using an excellent knowledge of optimal vp play, casino business, machines' operation, and my own contribution which it appears no one else fully understands well enough to try it as a serious approach. I've written books, articles, had a website, been on the Travel Channel, ESPN, and various radio shows, and advise/train other players--at no charge, ever. And that comes from being successful.
These "other guys"....well, using theory as an approach, then as so-called "proof" that you will win...or the much sillier, that you "HAVE WON", and copying one another's sales pitches really doesn't qualify anyone as an expert. Frank, OTOH and as Alan correctly identifies to the chagrin of the forum "AP's" is a simple working stiff who deceitfully claims he wins every year, when all he's EVER done is play with other people's money and got paid, win or lose, so he can say he's "ahead always". That's no expert.
Redietz, here's a little expert advice: you would be a whole lot more understandable, and indeed, more trustworthy, if you stopped the cloak & dagger representations of yourself and just explained who you really are and present a clear explanation of what your qualifications are. You don't have to be concerned with anyone calling you a liar because I believe what you say for the most part, and arci only calls people who get the best of him liars.
I know you consider yourself an AP when it comes to vp, but from the little information you've offered, I don't see it. You seem more like someone who takes his sports betting seriously, and who only plays vp as a low stakes distraction. Forget that you only play FPDW or whatever. Most decent players look for the best pay tables available anyway. I don't know if I've played more or less than you, but I've most probably put a lot more money into vp action than you have. But that's not what makes me an expert. It's my overall commitment, unique abilities, and my ongoing willingness to help other players to become better and enjoy the game as thoroughly as possible that does.
If by "win goal," Alan, you mean I don't play negative EV games, then you're correct. My goal is to win. There is very little in the way of positive vp in Las Vegas these days, outside of the senior circuit bonuses and the occasional FPDW and 10/7, which I don't like. So if one doesn't play negative EV games, then there isn't much to play.
Not much cloak and dagger to it, Rob. People who actually win have no interest in discussing it, explaining it, or being recognized for it.
That's unfortunate redietz. Then why are you here? Is it only to criticize? How about helping the rest of the forum with some helpful information... for a change.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
One of the ways of being a video poker winner is playing the best possible paytable along with the appropriate bankroll to take advantage of the long term advantage you have for the denomination being played. Since you are a winner redietz would you mind telling us the denomination and the game you play along with the bankroll you have in order to take advantage of your "advantage play" formula?
Currently I play 25 cent FPDW. Occasionally I'll play 10/7 Double Bonus for 25 cents. I'll play NSUD for short stints if senior bonuses, point multiplers, and free vp tournaments are tied in with the promotion. That's as far as I go playing a technically-but-not-really negative games. In the past I played up to a dollar on the FPDW and 10/7, but those are very rare today. I've played 9/6 under rare circumstances involving bonuses. Back in the old days, I played Flush Attack games.
Since my bankroll is all one big bankroll, and doesn't have a separate vp component, it's generally been well over 200K.
If you asked where I play the games currently, I wouldn't tell you. There's no percentage in it, as they say.
O.K. the truth. I was born in a log cabin. I couldn't attend school cause I had to take care of my six sisters. I almost went blind reading by candle light but I did manage to get a paper or two published in Bulls****ers Digest. I'd state my real name but I'm just way too modest and don't want to upstage all the experts on the forum. Q. U. Ahaug esq.
Since we're coming clean------after my 14 years as a porn star-------oh never mind
redietz has come clean as an advantage player primarily on 25-cent video poker who sometimes works himself up to the $1 level. I can't imagine why with his talent and skill and a $200K bankroll he isn't pounding out the wins on $5, $10, $25 and even $100 machines. But what do I know? I'm not an AP. I guess the real truth to being an AP is to bang out those wins on 25-cents deuces... or to do what another AP does which is to play using other people's money.
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Originally Posted by redietz
I'd guess you really didn't need much of a bankroll for vp then, as most of that has to be for the sports betting, etc. But what's with the part about not saying where you play? There's no secrets in video poker.
Why would anyone play a losing game, whether at $5, $25, or $100? "Casino Philanthropist" is not my title. I detect some disdain for playing 25-cents video poker -- we AP's banging away at 25-cents deuces and so on. I find this disdain really funny given that what I wager in other venues undoubtedly dwarfs anything you do or have ever done. Another thing you seem to miss is that "Advantage Play" can refer to anything -- video poker, poker, blackjack, sports betting, so the mentality needs to be consistent.
Rob, if you think vpfree is constantly up to date on what games are available everywhere, especially off-the-wall locations, you are mistaken. Eventually the public catches up, but there's often a time lag.
I'm just curious about your "hourly earnings" at 25-cents FPDW?? Is it really worth your time and trouble??
People who actually win SHOULD have an interest in sharing how with as many others as possible, and without charge of any kind. My point about what you claim is that it's a moving target laced with criticism of others, and some of us would like to know more about such a personality and their success in order that we can form as accurate a position as possible--and it's only because you have chosen to be a member here.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
Not sure how I gave that impression. I do know, however, that what you said about those higher limit games in LV not being offered as part of a "theoretically greater than 100% opportunity" is not true. I keep in touch with several high rolling vp players there, and while neither wins playing vp (they do tell me they win big at live poker and smaller on sports betting) neither plays vp without at least a 2% advantage.Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
I'm not privy to promos at those levels or rebates, but without those there are no 2% advantages.
One thing you and I agree on, Rob, is that (cover your ears, Alan) if there is any non-random trickeration by the occasional wayward manager, it would occur during the high-roller promotional offer specials such as pounded by Bob Dancer and cohorts.
Well, certainly Redietz, I think it's safe for us to think that if there were higher denomination machines that offered you an edge you would be playing them... right? So would you think that these gems you are finding hidden on casino floors are just loss leaders for the casinos? Similar to my local supermarket offering a loaf of bread for 19-cents on Wednesdays?
And again I have to ask you just how much money are you earning per hour? Would you be better off flipping burgers at In 'N Out where you also get benefits?
Wow... isn't that the excuse the APs give when they don't win??Quote:
Originally Posted by redietz
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I agree very much with what redietz offered about those "juicy" promos that rope players like Bob Dancer in....and into eventual divorce court. No players bring more cash with them when there's an "on purpose" 2%-4% "edge" and those in the casinos who offers these things know exactly what they're doing. Heck, how do you think arci got all those decks of cards from the Tuscany to now use as a virtual "kitchen table vacation" while ignoring all those knocks on the wall from next door because the device that's pushing all the fluids thru where the gizzard used to be, is making such a racket?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson