So much talk about the long term in video poker... so I wanted to figure out what my long term is?

I am 63 years old. I hope to be going to casinos for the next 20 years. I see plenty of 83 year old folks going to casinos to enjoy the buffets... maybe I'll get to be one of them?

Okay, so I'm 63 with 20 years of visits ahead of me.

Let me hope that I can go to a casino once a month to play video poker for five hours. That's 5 hours X 12 months = 60 hours a year. Let's say each of those visits involves two days, so now I have 120 hours of play a year.

I am not a fast player. I figure I play ten hands a minute, about six seconds each, and this takes into account when I hit a winner and the credits add up on the meter -- I like to watch that happen.

10 hands per minute X 60 minutes per hour = 600 hands per hour.

600 hands per hour X 120 hours per year X 20 years = 1,440,000 hands which is my long term.