Well Alan, I don't know how long you played or how many hands you played or how many points you accumulated or what denominations you really played or how much you won or lost overall when you hit 3 sets of Aces, but I have no trouble believing you if you say you won or if you say you squandered the lot of it. Why? Because I know players, and I know how they just can't bear to get up and leave machines when they're ahead OR behind. But if you say you had two other quad Aces without pictures to prove it, why doubt it?
I, OTOH, had TERRIBLE luck this morning, only to have that one lucky hit come again. I got stuck playing 3 hours this time--my last for maybe a month. The difference is, I always go in with a plan where you don't, which is a very big reason why you have a difficult time coming to grips with the winning my strategies allow for.
I took $8700 exactly. I planned to play--and did play--up to three 5-level RTT sessions on 25c thru $5, which requires a bankroll of $2900/session. My goal was to leave upon attaining $1000 or more in profit overall. Each individual session I assigned a $200 minimum win goal, and after playing three, win (ahead anywhere from $1 up) or lose, I would leave.
Session #1 was a $2900 loser with no quads. Same with session #2. On RTT, that's 2300 credits w/o a quad, which is kind of unusual--and especially unusual for me during this winning streak. Session #3, as you see below, gave me that one single lucky hit that I look for in every visit I make. It wasn't very likely that the quad drought would continue....and to help you understand, now you may finally comprehend WHY I don't just go at the higher limit machines and WHY I work my way up to them. (Take a guess at how much I would have been behind losing about 3300-$5 credits before hitting the winner! Has it sunk in yet?) I was $2050 in the hole when I hit this, so my profit for the day was another cool +$10,150. Now compare that to your belief system: which would you rather have, +$10,150....or +$3500? AND IT IS LIKE THAT EVERY SINGLE TIME. The lower levels are there to either create their own winners by not risking very much, or to absorb the losses before the winner hits on the higher level. So just think if you actually went in with a strategy last night instead of simply letting casino ambience and your compulsion to play too much due to over-craving the action control what you did.
Among all this nonsense of posting W2G's etc. etc., you basically said why it isn't done here. You believe my hits, but you can't accept that I profit so much from them because what you don't believe is in my comparative limited time at the machines. That right there says what your & others' responses would be had you, I, and others posted tax slips--you would have no other choice but to believe the wins were squandered away or mostly squandered away, because that's what you and most others or maybe all others, but me, do. I believe you asked me to do those videos and do all kinds of explaining because you first and foremost were looking at other ways to play in order to be a yearly winner. But when I try to help you, you only want to fight it because you can't conceive of it being true based on your many, many bad experiences. I've said many times that video poker is a very unforgiving game. So LEARN from what I'm saying, teaching, an explaining. I ran into the exact same skepticism week after week as readers read about my constant winning each week in GT, so your comments about "fantasies" and "putting on pants" is nothing new. You can either learn to play smart, or keep playing stupid. Like the bozos here. But for now, everyone please do enjoy the picture....and the PAIN!!
Well Alan, I don't know how long you played or how many hands you played or how many points you accumulated or what denominations you really played or how much you won or lost overall when you hit 3 sets of Aces, but I have no trouble believing you if you say you won or if you say you squandered the lot of it. Why? Because I know players, and I know how they just can't bear to get up and leave machines when they're ahead OR behind. But if you say you had two other quad Aces without pictures to prove it, why doubt it?
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