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Thread: Why Waste Time with Video Poker if Win Goals, Loss Limits and Martingale Progressions Work?

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    Why bother with piddley $100,000 Royal Flushes when there are BIGGER fish to fry? The recent $1.6 Billion dollar Powerball Lottery was the biggest lottery prize in history!

    Who's with me? We'll get a bankroll together and start buying Powerball Lottery tickets. We'll start with a modest win goal, and keep buying more and more each draw until we reach it. We can even put our small wins like $4, $7 and $100 into an ambiguous soft profit pool to help us reach our win goal faster!

    Once we reach our win goal, we'll "quit" since we are "ahead" and then start over again next week. With any luck (Since it is all luck and by buying more and more tickets we're giving luck more opportunity to appear.) we'll just keep winning million dollar jackpots. There'll be plenty to go around so we don't have to keep arguing with each other.
    Last edited by a2a3dseddie; 01-21-2016 at 10:01 AM.

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    I made this same argument many moons ago. Basically, why not use it for craps, roulette, baccarat, everything?

    If win goals and stop losses work in some material way, they should be applicable to everything. Obviously. And if they worked in some material way, people would have been using them for hundreds of years, and we wouldn't have any casinos, unless you want to argue that our generation suddenly jumped 100 IQ points over past generations.

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    Yeah well, it looks like they didn't set a proper loss limit.

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    There's nothing wrong with having a win goal and a loss limit in playing the lottery.

    But the question you're not asking is what are the chances of winning the lottery and what are the chances of hitting a royal flush?

    Winning the Powerball: 1 in 292 million, I think.
    Hitting a royal: 1 in 42,000, I think in most games.

    I bought a total of 5 tickets for Powerball: one ticket had the Powerball number, so I had 1/5 wins.
    I think in Bonus poker you're supposed to win (break even counts as a win) about 3/5 hands played.

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    In video poker you can expect to win or push just under 50% of the time. The lottery is a joke, which is why I love to see the very few pictures of big winners after drawings like this last one. Similar to the WSOP--where nobodys from nowhere always win out over all the so-called big name "pros" because poker is nothing more than a game of luck regardless what the wannabes like to say--lottery winners were only hoping that their numbers would be called, just like poker players always hope their cards will be called.

    Of course, there's always some out-of-control gambler like LoneStar who comes along, bragging about going to LV 40 times a year while being treated like the Sultan of Brunei, when in reality his wins come less often than the number of times his son masturbates in a 48-hour period in a "Parlour Suite" at Wynn.

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    I think Rob is trying to tell us those Parlor Suites come with a lot of free porn. But how would Rob know that?

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    Rob never ceases to surprise. Every time I think his most recent post hit a new low, along comes a newer post with a lower low.

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    I wouldn't call it a new low. He's just keeping the Pahrump end up (that's a take-off on the end of The Spy Who Loved Me).

    We all know he just wants to bait LoneStar into a discussion of his son's love life. That is kind of creepy when you think about it.

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    Looks like Singer is hooked on the LoneStar saga. I can just see him signing on every few minutes to see if the newest installment is available.

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    I do give Rob credit for some originality on this one. No one could have expected this one. Does no one else see the dark humor in Rob's posts? Keep em coming Rob--I am easily entertained by you.

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    Originally Posted by redietz View Post
    I wouldn't call it a new low. He's just keeping the Pahrump end up (that's a take-off on the end of The Spy Who Loved Me).

    We all know he just wants to bait LoneStar into a discussion of his son's love life. That is kind of creepy when you think about it.
    Well this has taken a dark turn.

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    Rob's comment would seem especially amazing to poker players even more than the average gambler.

    He truly busted the nut low with this one.

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    Originally Posted by Count Room View Post
    Rob's comment would seem especially amazing to poker players even more than the average gambler.

    He truly busted the nut low with this one.
    Tell me you have no confidence that you could beat any poker player--"pro" or not--at any table anytime anywhere. It is nothing more than a knowledge of the game and a whole lotta luck. All this nonsense about "reads" and feelings about those reads and doing the math on a deck when you have no idea what cards are already out, is nothing but commercial BS designed to improve the popularity of the game.

    Most "live" poker in this world is played online. This completely eliminates all that mystique about reads and feelings. So now we're down to luck, just like we always are in video poker.

    LoneStar's too smart for me.

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    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    LoneStar's too smart for me.
    Obviously....

    Originally Posted by LoneStarHorse View Post
    I'm fed up with their lack of respect to their loyal players... I was going to get to 149,900 and stop

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    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    Tell me you have no confidence that you could beat any poker player--"pro" or not--at any table anytime anywhere. It is nothing more than a knowledge of the game and a whole lotta luck. All this nonsense about "reads" and feelings about those reads and doing the math on a deck when you have no idea what cards are already out, is nothing but commercial BS designed to improve the popularity of the game.

    Most "live" poker in this world is played online. This completely eliminates all that mystique about reads and feelings. So now we're down to luck, just like we always are in video poker.

    LoneStar's too smart for me.

    Rob, I'm not sure you caught my double entendre joke.

    X-rated Urban Dictionary
    Last edited by Count Room; 01-22-2016 at 04:21 PM.

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    Waiting for Rob to win 14 WSOP bracelets...

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    Tell you what Rob you're going to get a VERY rude awakening soon.. You now bought one of my family members into this ...
    Laugh all you want but I'll be there to see your tears



    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    In video poker you can expect to win or push just under 50% of the time. The lottery is a joke, which is why I love to see the very few pictures of big winners after drawings like this last one. Similar to the WSOP--where nobodys from nowhere always win out over all the so-called big name "pros" because poker is nothing more than a game of luck regardless what the wannabes like to say--lottery winners were only hoping that their numbers would be called, just like poker players always hope their cards will be called.

    Of course, there's always some out-of-control gambler like LoneStar who comes along, bragging about going to LV 40 times a year while being treated like the Sultan of Brunei, when in reality his wins come less often than the number of times his son masturbates in a 48-hour period in a "Parlour Suite" at Wynn.

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    LoneStar... there is no need to respond to Rob anymore. We all have him figured out. So do you. Ignore him.

    The reality is... no one knows you or your family members from this web forum. You're anonymous. Why get involved when no one knows who you are or who your family members are? It is really worth it?

    Rob is having his chuckles. Don't give him the pleasure.

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    In this day and age, Rob's nuts to pull this stuff. He's trackable. And the sad facts of life are that, outside of the president and a couple of CEO's, we are all in each other's hands. Anybody sufficiently motivated can do anybody else damage, should they choose to do so, and no amount of restraining orders or kevlar is going to alter that.

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