Discussing Rob Singers Systems

[slingshot]

slingshot, one of the problems is that when you put all of the elements of Rob's system together ... and I mean all of the elements including when to use the special plays ... even Rob admits it's probably impossible to follow and do. Even the question of win goals and loss limits is enough to derail any attempt at understanding and following his system.

But I would like to bring up the question of what is optimal play? And this really has nothing to do with Rob's system directly but more is a question of what is optimal. Here is the question:

By accident you deposit your entire session bankroll of $500 into a $100 machine. (Don't say impossible, because I saw this happen once at Pechanga where a single $100 machine is in a row of $1 machines). You push the deal button and you are dealt a flush with four to the royal. Under the circumstances, do you make the optimal play of holding the four to the royal? Or, is holding the flush the optimal play in this situation?

Yes, I played a quarter machine with $30 free-play and it was gone in a few hands because hitting the draw on this machine meant 25 credits-ouch! In this situation, I would take the flush because two wrongs don't make a right, and I would breathe a sigh of relief that I made a good profit without throwing my whole session away. And it certainly fullfils the qualifications of a win goal.