Alan, here's the issue I have with your previous posts and your latest posts regarding video poker gambling. Correct me if I misstate your position.
You are basically taking the position that certain individuals, because they have won money following various strategies at negative EV games, have something worthwhile to say regarding how to win at video poker.
There will always be individuals who are ahead playing negative EV video poker for a limited number of hands. Their strategies can vary from something as labyrinthine as Rob's, to rabbit-foot-in-pocket, to drinking grape powerade at precisely 8 AM every Wednesday, to praying to God, to praying to Satan. At any given moment, there are literally thousands of people with thousands of "strategies" who have won playing negative EV games. You think, for whatever reason, that you can evaluate these strategies in some non-mathematical way using reasoning, deduction, and your powers of judgement.
I'm telling you that you cannot, or at least (for the benefit, well-being, and sanity of your audience) that you probably should not -- unless it's to debunk them.
You can spin your wheels forever evaluating these things non-mathemtically, and as you look more closely while these indviduals play more hands, their "strategies" will disappear into the mist. The winning was real -- it's bell curve stuff -- but the rationale that "they won because" was a mirage.
Check the old parapsychology literature for the "shyness effect," which was just a way of describing reversion to the mean. And save yourself some wheel-spinning.
The answer to "how not to lose at 96% games" is "Don't Play."