Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
Originally Posted by monet View Post
Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post

Really? Then put yourself in the shoes of Joe Blow who usually plays 25-cent video poker. He gets the urge to play one hand of $100/coin VP. He's dealt AKQJ9 of spades. What would your advice be to him?

Here's what I'd say: can you afford to lose that $500, and would $2500 make a difference to you?
Really bad analogy or hypothetical. You gave Joe Blow a 47-1 shot for 400 thousand dollars!! That's life changing money and it's by far the mathematical play.

800-1 on his money on his one time pull for fun!? Go Fuck Yourself!

You act like he can't make another flush or straight or pay pair!?

Even pros don't get many 47-1 shots for 400 dimes!!

Rethink the stupid hypothetical question and make it more difficult to decide.
So it's easy for you to go for the royal and sacrifice a dealt flush for $2500 ?? Well, I'm certainly not in your class. I struggle with dropping a dealt flush every time I get dealt a flush with four to the royal. But at $1 VP or $5 VP I go for the royal -- and I have. However, I never had that problem the few times I played $25 VP.

If I ever played $100 VP (and I never did) and faced the problem I would be making a lot of phone calls before I pushed the buttons.
Yes, the first call should be to your son so he can make a decision as to if he wants to get paid back $2500 or have you go for it so he can be paid back in full if you hit.