Alan's 100% correct on several counts. People who don't spend countless hours in casinos every week don't care about how many full houses or flushes they get. What they do care about is giving themselves the best opportunity to see the big winners that will send them home with more money than they came with. And all this theorizing about the FH's & Flushes adding up to more than what the Aces paid is irrelevant and wrong. No one who has any brains is ever going to play millions of hands, and that's exactly where that assertion comes from.

The same thing goes for a tenth of a percent in "give". Why would anyone who plays to win TODAY care one bit about something as foolish as that? And of course, as we all know, that's really how everyone plays, only the AP's spin it to make believe that tiny tenth of a % has some mysterious value by the time they step into their graves. Makes no sense at all.