Originally Posted by Vegas_lover View Post

Why is it so difficult for you to understand Alan that you haven't exactly found the magix elixer to beat -EV video poker?
Someone over on Wizard of Vegas summed up the answer to your question, and the answer went something like this: While you may not be able to beat a negative expectation game, you can win at a negative expectation game. Winning does not mean you "beat" the game. It only means you had some winning results.

You are "stuck" on the mathematical fact that you can't beat a negative expectation game. And that is a fact. I've said it about craps many times: the more you play the more you lose. But there are players in craps who have a profit at the game, and how? They quit when ahead. And so it is with video poker: the more you play the more you will lose, except when you quit when you're ahead.

We all agree you cannot "beat" a negative expectation game including video poker. But we have all had winning "hands" and winning "sessions" at video poker.

I asked you this once before and I will ask you again: over the next TEN times you play video poker, keep track of the number of sessions when you show a profit AT ANY TIME during that session. Unless you have the most miserable luck, I am pretty confident that you will have a profit at some point in most if not all of those sessions. And I am including a profit of "one bet."

The science says the more you play the more you will lose. The art is knowing when to take the money (profit) and run.