Dan Druff posted (and I quoted) pretty much the exact same thing.
Superstition, hope? I prefer the term voodoo. What ever the terminology you choose, Rob's claims mostly involve progressive wagering and stop limits as a way to overcome a -EV game. And that have been proven without a doubt to be impossible...or just complete voodoo.
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Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
Kewlj stop it. It's possible to win and have a profit playing -EV video poker. It may not be likely but it's not impossible.
Alan, I am not going to continue to argue this with you, as you mischaracterize and change Rob's claims to suit yourself.
IF Rob's claim was that he hit one or two jackpots (in this case Royals), while playing
VERY high limits, that more than offset all his negative EV play, resulting in a net win of 900k or whatever his ever-changing figure is now, that would be
possible. It would be very unlikely and I wouldn't believe it bases on the totality of his claims, but it would indeed at least be
possible.
But that is NOT what Rob's claims is and I won't allow you to change it to meet your own needs. Rob's claims is that he accumulated (I know this is a word you don't understand) this ever-changing mythical amount, winning year after year for over 10 years.
To accomplish this, you need to be playing a +EV game or you need something (promotions, cash back....something) that changes a slightly negative EV game to a longterm (another word you have no understanding of) +EV play. 1 or 2 extraordinary big wins offsetting many more loses can not accomplish this. You need something to turn the game +EV. Rob claims progressive betting and stop limits is that magical something that turns the game +EV, but those concepts are mathematically impossible...IE...voodoo.
And when challenged that his claims are mathematically impossible, Rob offers no math, because there IS NO MATH. Instead he always responds with unrelated personal attacks, as he attempts to deflect. And members like you have repeatedly, for years now, allowed him to get away with this shit. So YOU Alan....stop encouraging and enabling this fraud hell bent on misleading people and players with nonsense.