Originally Posted by
Vegas_lover
Vic,
I think you misread my post and didn't get what I was trying to say. I'll try to clarify this. I'm not a VP player and I know VP-players look at paytables, especially advantage players do. Because to play the game as well as possible you have to take these paytables into account. But there are still a lot of tourists that play video poker as well because they "know" how to play poker. Most of those tourists will probably not be looking at those paytables very well.You are mostly a VP-player right? Not everybody in a casino playing a machine is VP-player or wants to be an advantage player. Although I like live poker a lot, personally I think VP is boring. It's a good thing that not everybody is into the same games, because there would never be a chance to sit down at your favourite game, there would always be a 100 people waiting in line in front of you.
As far as regular slots go that just shows my statement is correct about most people not caring too much about paytables. I know the machines do not show paytables. But if the majority of the people coming to casinos was so interested in paytables, wouldn't you think a lot of them would be looking for them on the machines? I also have serious doubts that the average Vegas casino customer will call the casino before arriving to ask about payout percentages. And still you see 10.000's of people playing slots in Vegas casinos every day. All these people know the casino has the edge, they only hope they will win. They are recreational gamblers.
Try not to look at this discussion from a VP-angle. You, Alan and Arci for example are VP-players. You're all very much looking into paytables, optimal play and ER. If all the VP-players (advantage players) would be put in a room completely filled with casino slotmachine players you would be a very small minority. I hope this makes sense...