Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
You've put up this theme several times. Here's what you should look at.
These "mathematicians" you refer to: do you know what you really mean? When the "pure" ones get a hold of all this (aka, SPS) and how I know others can indeed be successful playing it (in your lingo, beating negative games over time) is because the math is the basis for everything I've developed into the strategy. And who exactly am I? Well, much of my background is in math, I've worked with it all my life, and I hold an EE and business MBA, which means not only do I have a strong statistical background--I have more practical overall experience than most of my critics, and probably have had more direct education than most or even all of them.
When you see arci, the Wizard, Dancer a former actuary like Fezzik, or even yourself confront me over winning on negative games, it's only because none of you are trained to ever look beyond the math, or see how in a gambling game such as video poker, which is grounded in math, human input & choices can make a world of difference in results, time after time. In short, all your claims that the game is ONLY math precludes any of you from ever seeing....ever studying the game from outside that tiny little box you all have so tidily wrapped it up into. And that's where ingenuity gets stopped cold in its tracks. The math indeed can be overcome, but only if you're looking at & analyzing the game from the PLAYER'S point of view and not from the casino's--which is a VERY common mistake,among the math guys--and only if you look at the game on an individual visit basis. When you apply long term math rules to short term play, you will always get skewed results. Thus the very misleading conclusion that if you play positive games you will win...andto play negative games means you lose.
People need to use and realize how magnificent that computer attached to their neck is, they need to realize that no vp computer will never come close to "out-computing" it, and they have to be motivated enough to be able to put all this knowledge together in order to understand the ability of the gifts we were blessed with as well as accept that the math is simply a tool we use to help create innovations. In video poker, I am there. As yet, no one else is.