Originally Posted by redietz View Post
P.S. I never said hitting-and-running on negative expectation games is wrong. It should reduce your overall losses, so it's good. Unless you're blessed by God (and/or country) and always win, in which case hitting-and-running's phraseology should be changed to hitting-and-running-and-hitting. Like a perpetual motion machine.
Is it wrong on positive expectation machines -- those with a greater than 100% paytable, for example? I think not. I've played video poker games with a better than 100% paytable and unfortunately I lost. Keep in mind that you pretty much need a royal flush no matter what the paytable might say to get the "top return" of the game. And... we've all gone through those royal flush droughts.

Just because the paytable says 100% or greater doesn't mean you will have a return of 100% or greater. So, I think playing a hit and run strategy even on a 100+% game makes a lot of sense.