Originally Posted by
Alan Mendelson
A couple of things:
First, about the "skills" of gambling...
Card counting is a true skill.
Dice control, at least theoretically, is a skill (I doubt anyone can really do it with much consistency).
Button pushing at video poker is impossible because there is no way to judge when is the right time to push the button -- because we can't see the cards zipping by in order to decide when to push.
And what happened with me Sunday night?
So, I had $250 of free play at Rincon and a friend wanted to know what "advantage play" was all about, so my friend went with me to Rincon to watch me run my $250 of free play ONCE through an 8/5 Bonus game. (By the way, half of the Nash family was at the machine next to me, and I was not on my favorite machine which was occupied.)
I played my $250 on the $1 game through one-time and cashed out $435 thanks to quad 10s for $125, plus one full house for $40, and a lot of pairs and trips.
Question for Arc: what were the odds that running $250 through a $1 machine once that I would do this well? As I said to my friend... I didn't expect such a great result. I expected perhaps a $200 cash-out.