Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
But I'm not sure Singer was wrong for criticizing so called APs when someone plays negative expectation video poker, includes drawing tickets "won" for playing video poker in the return, then loses the drawing.
Singer is not an AP. He knows nothing about how to dominate the drum in a drawing promotion. Not all drawings are worth playing. You have to pick and choose carefully to insure you can dominate the drum.
Here is an example from one of my past plays. The Sands Regency in Reno put on a royal promotion. Whoever got the most royals got $10,000, 2nd place $5000, 3rd place $2000. In addition you got a drawing ticket for every royal flush. At the end of the promotion another $10,000 was given away in $500 increments when your ticket was drawn from the drum. That's 20 chances at $500.
My first thought was hundred play. I found two with penny 8/5 Super Aces, a 99.9% game. They were the only two hundred plays in the building. So I was there early to lock one up. So was someone else. I hit 147 royals, the other player outraced me and hit 169 so she got first place. 3rd place had 42.
I wound up a few hundred dollar loser on the Super Aces. But I got the 2nd place money, $5000. Then got my name drawn 6 times in the drawing for another $3000. I estimated I had 25% of the drum so came in about right in the drawing.
That's how you work a drawing, Alan. You dominate the drum as much as possible.