I hate this: you memorize the best strategies, you play the hand perfectly and you lose. But had you played incorrectly, you would have won big.

My latest case in point, playing 8/5 Aces and Faces (a Bonus-type game):

Dealt 3c 3s Ah Jh 7d

Correct stategy is to hold the pair of threes which I did.

The draw cards would have given me a royal: 10h, Qh, Kh.

This is maybe the fourth time in my life that holding the "right cards" made me miss a royal. I guess after 10+ years of playing video poker, such things are to be expected.

But it still hurts.

On the postiive side, I had $375 of free play today and left with a $200 profit.