Bob Yodeler -- Lifetime Video Poker Winner

[Alan Mendelson]

Bottom line here is he is just blowing smoke up all your asses....

Maybe he is blowing smoke about his system. But maybe he's trying to lure us to one of his bars where he knows there's a rigged machine?

Maybe he has a deal with the bartender/game keeper to bring in a sucker for ten grand?

[redietz]

That's certainly possible. Nothing in the deal precludes it.

I prefer to think slob may have stumbled onto some of the kinds of opportunities Dancer lays out as existing in the 90's in Las Vegas and elsewhere. Of course, I prefer to think a lot of things.

[slobdinger]

Bottom line here is he is just blowing smoke up all your asses....

Something tells me that I should just let you and others to continue to believe that. One of the reasons I do so well here is lack of competition for the strong plays from other knowledgeable pros. They aren't here. I should really be writing about strategic gambling in that thread. So I think I will take it over there.

PS: A while back I invited Alan to Montana to witness for free what I do. He offered to put me on TV if I could do it. I turned him down on that offer. I would be cutting my own throat badly by broadcasting it to the whole world. But the offer is still open to Alan. I know he is not going to move here.

[Alan Mendelson]

I really don't have any plans to travel to Montana anytime soon, and while I appreciate the offer, it's just not worth it for me to make the trip.

If you were in Vegas where it's a simple day trip I'd be happy to come along with Jason and shoot the video and put it on the web and TV if justified.

But if you could guarantee me you could pick the Powerball numbers I'd be there in a flash.

[slobdinger]

I really don't have any plans to travel to Montana anytime soon, and while I appreciate the offer, it's just not worth it for me to make the trip.

If you were in Vegas where it's a simple day trip I'd be happy to come along with Jason and shoot the video and put it on the web and TV if justified.

But if you could guarantee me you could pick the Powerball numbers I'd be there in a flash.

The problem with Nevada is the opportunities that exist here don't exist down there. The games are totally different. There are different machine manufacturers involved between here and there. Where the Nevada casinos have taken many steps over the years to counter AP's, that hasn't happened here. I can't do there what I can do here. I get much bigger edges here than I get in Nevada.

This is one of the first lessons I learned early on in my career. I was sitting at a bar in the Colorado Belle in Laughlin having a cup of coffee and killing time. Out of the corner of my eye I caught a well known machine hustler walking across the casino. He was known to only play when he had the stone cold nuts. You would never catch him on even a thin edge play. He had to have the total nuts or he wouldn't play.

The first thing that popped into my brain was "What's he doing here? In this particular casino?" Suspicious, I got up and followed him but trying to go unnoticed. He checked a few machines then grabbed a seat at one of them. That told me that what he was playing was an advantage play....and all I had to do was wait for him to leave then study the play. And it turned out that I got to add another strong play to my arsenal.

I always asked myself that question whenever I seen a strong hustler in a particular casino. What's he doing here? And perhaps that's what some should be asking about me. Why am I here? In this particular location?

[Alan Mendelson]

I can absolutely understand why a certain casino could have a better play than another casino, and I can understand that casinos in one state or jurisdiction can be better than another state or jurisdiction.