Let me put it to you this way: it will take me more than five years to play a million hands of video poker if I keep playing at the pace I have for the last two years. I probably played more VP in the last two years than I did in the previous twenty years combined.
I don't know if I am going to be playing VP for another million hands or if I am going to make it back to a casino anytime in the next year, or two. I can't even consider what you guys are talking about when you discuss long term. Heck, I almost died five years ago from kidney failure. I look at every visit to a casino as a one time event and I want to maximize my win or minimize my loss each and every time I go.
So while I am not going to say your long term approach is wrong, I am simply going to say "I can't relate to it."
My whole life I have always had a loss limit, and I have always had a win goal system which uses a rising "stop loss" which is something I adapted from stock market investing.