Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Girlfriday's next response is below:

I didn't locate any of the Singer Martingale strategy in the videos, but I did find something about it in older posts by him. I wish he wasn't banned because it would be interesting to discuss this with him.

He doesn't visibly challenge the math and he says that. What I see is he trues to push the quad winners in his direction so he can see more of them than they statistically occur. He openly says his strategy relies on being a small bit more lucky than an ap player.

I also saw where your primary issue is how he claims to win, and win a lot, on less than 100% machines. I need to understand his system better first, but my comment here is that it's possible to be able to do that over x no. of hands, with x being undefinable for now. At 99.1% versus 100.7%, in individual sessions of video poker play, the difference would be negligible. I see the argument though, where over the long term there would be enough hands to eat away his profits. I can't disagree or agree with that until I know more about it.
The only way to increase the quad frequency is to throw away full houses which would be highly foolish in most circumstances. The exceptions being a "big" quad progressive (rare, as quads hit, on average once every 420 hands with normal discarding strategy) or if you're playing a game like Royal Aces bonus (quad aces pay 800-1) and you have a full house with 3-aces in it (it wouldn't increase quads that much since you only do the throw-away for the Aces, not the other 12 suits).
Well, not the only way. I used to just hold the high pair instead of two pair when playing DB & DDB, chasing the chance of quads vs. full house.