Ah yes.
Back when Jimmy Olson used to tag along with Superman.
Got it.
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Ah yes.
Back when Jimmy Olson used to tag along with Superman.
Got it.
Doing goofball stuff like this can actually be good cover for an AP on a play. I remember Bob Dancer writing about being on a play and doing stuff similar to what Alan does here. The short of it was casino personnel let Bob stay on a play while pitching a serious couple off of it because they thought the couple were AP's but thought Bob was just a goofball degenerate gambler.
I think that it's goofballs rationalizing goofball stuff, but in a different manner. After all, the gamblers exist because of the casinos.
Yes that's true, however, I dont think I could bring myself to act like Alan in that video.
There have been a few times when I hit something and the attendant saying something like, "you don't seem that excited." I just say, "I'm just in shock, I can't believe I finally hit something.
There's been some activity on the VP speed challenge. A guy played ten minutes of FPDW on two adjacent machines at Santa Fe Station. His total hourly rate was over 2500 hands. That's fast. The Wizard posted a couple of videos to YouTube.
Now the same challenger is going to establish a single-machine record.
Here's the YouTube channel link:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheOddsMustBeCrazy
Click VIDEOS to see the latest content.
Long version of the two-machine challenge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oIkmDkKvnQ
This guy plays 2 machines fast. So what. He probably made more errors than anyone would care to admit. Most people make mistakes playing comfortably. But good for him and his ten minutes of wizzard fame.
Just curious--I did not watch anywhere close to the whole thing. But I noticed on one hand he kept ace queen suited with a deuce. On another he only kept the deuce. I don't play deuces. Is that because there was another of that suit discarded in the latter? Anyone know the reason and/or the numbers? Arci???
I don't have my strategy cards in front of me, but I thought you keep just the deuce if the two-to-the-royal involves the ace. If it's K-J suited or whatnot, you keep the three to the royal with the deuce. It's a close call, but I think that's correct. Anybody know for sure?
Good catch. Yes, it's a penalty card situation. I think the way it works out, the AQs is only held with the deuce if the hand is completely free of interference. The deuce alone is correct if any flush or straight penalty card is present -- which would include another card of the same suit, or any K, J or Ten.
I don't really now the FPDW strategy, but according to the basic strategy, AJ2 isn't a proper hold normally, but it is sometimes on the basic strategy exceptions.
https://wizardofodds.com/games/video...5-d-200-d-800/
Did he make any money? If not what the heck is the point of playing fast?
FPDW has a 0.76% advantage. Although it's not a huge advantage, the game can be played around the clock, because it's always there. At say 2,400 hands/hour, that's $3,000 coin in per hour, for an hourly EV of $22.8. The faster you play, the more coin in you do, which means the more money you make.
It looks like he may have started with two hundred but at the end he had less than two hundred I think. So playing faster helps how? I'm not talking variance here I'm just saying in the real world situation he lost five bucks or so in ten minutes. That's fifty bucks on hour lost.