Originally Posted by Vegas Vic View Post
Getting lucky aside, "tweaking your play" can also worsen the mathematical disadvantage that the pay table gives you. If you are playing 8/5 BP, breaking up and turning down a standard JOB hand (because going for pushes is not part of the strategy), and breaking up 2 pair to go for a quad can reduce a 99.166% game down to as low as a 55.939% game if none of the tweaks pan out. That's a scary thought.
That's where you're completely wrong Vic (although it is I who am the end-all in video poker, while arci always has been and remains....an Internet hack with habitual troll tendencies on the subject). Making certain special plays improves opportunity in a session. You cannot apply long term rules to short term play. Show me any one session that comes out exactly on ER target, and I'll show you how to spell MIRACLE. As such, while it is virtually impossible to alter the ER into infinity, it is as easy as pie to do TODAY, and you will not know which direction it'll take you until the deal is done. Overall, I've developed a method which gives a big nod to the player based on historical fact, while theorists can only studded their way into predicting doom.