Arc, let me say it one more time: there is NO MATH in video poker except for the math in the pay tables. There is NO MATH that tells you that you should continue playing or that you should pick up your profits and leave. There is no math that says win goals are bad or that loss limits are bad. Your probabilities that you worship are all based on a random number generator that has no order and no history and is unlike anything in the real world math of stocks, bonds, investments, seasonal patterns, climatic event, unemployment trends, gross national product, tax rates, marginal propensity to consume, concentric circles of economic development or anything of the kind. What goes on between you and the math of video poker is only a fantasy that the RNG will cooperate. It is a wish, a prayer and dream when you sit down at a RNG video poker machine. It is all luck.

You stop it. I don't want anyone who reads anything you write to think that they could sit down at a game with a "positive pay table" and imagine for a moment that they will beat the casino as you do. If you have been lucky, good for you. Just don't bring your curse on someone else.