The Essence of Expert Strategy
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5 OCT Elliot Frome CCT Column
Agree with everything with added my 2 cents for this last statement:
"But as more people embrace expert strategy (or one of the very
similar strategies), the casinos are finding that less people are
playing as poorly, and they need to reduce the paytables, which is
exactly what has been happening."
With all these new casinos (Indian's and not) popping left and right
combined with the all the additional vp machines, I think that the
casinos are getting more people playing vp poorly (considering the
ratio of the # of vp players vs # vp machines at present). My best
guess is that the "reduction of paytables" started happening shortly
after when some vp experts were put on National TV ("How To Beat The
Odds...", is one of the titles on Travel Channel) showing everyone how
to choose the right vp machines (for example, 10/6 DDB vs 9/6 DDB).
Books, magazines, vp software have always been available but, they
don't have the power to match that of TV. If 100 non-vp expert people
saw the TV show, most likely more that half of these people will be
going to the casinos looking for FPDW, 10/6 DDB, 10/7 DB, and the-
likes. From here, the casinos would know what to do next...
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Obviously, my conclusions were not backed by any scientific evidence
and were merely based on my own subjective viewpoint.
While there are more players thanks to the proliferation of video
poker machines as a result of the expansion of casinos everywhere, I
still think that the average player is better than they were 10
years ago. That doesn't mean that more are achieving 'expert'
status, but as a result of the articles, books, software, tv
programs, they have grasped some of the basic concepts and even the
average player is probably playing at 95% instead of 90% on a 99%
machine.
Again, just my opinion.
Elliot
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Agree with everything with added my 2 cents for this last
statement:
"But as more people embrace expert strategy (or one of the very
similar strategies), the casinos are finding that less people are
playing as poorly, and they need to reduce the paytables, which is
exactly what has been happening."With all these new casinos (Indian's and not) popping left and
right
combined with the all the additional vp machines, I think that the
casinos are getting more people playing vp poorly (considering the
ratio of the # of vp players vs # vp machines at present). My
best
guess is that the "reduction of paytables" started happening
shortly
after when some vp experts were put on National TV ("How To Beat
The
Odds...", is one of the titles on Travel Channel) showing everyone
how
to choose the right vp machines (for example, 10/6 DDB vs 9/6 DDB).
Books, magazines, vp software have always been available but, they
don't have the power to match that of TV. If 100 non-vp expert
people
saw the TV show, most likely more that half of these people will
be
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Agree with everything with added my 2 cents for this last statement:
"But as more people embrace expert strategy (or one of the very
similar strategies), the casinos are finding that less people are
playing as poorly, and they need to reduce the paytables, which is
exactly what has been happening."
To the extent that Las Vegas visitors are budget constrained versus
time constrained, which is probably the case for the vast majority of
visitors, lowering video poker schedules, for schedules that are
already below 100%, doesn't really make sense for the casinos. It
will just lowers the gambling experience for the gambler, without
increasing casino profits.
the "reduction of paytables" started happening shortly
after when some vp experts were put on National TV showing everyone
to choose the right vp machines If 100 non-vp expert people
saw the TV show, most likely more that half of these people will be
going to the casinos looking for FPDW, 10/6 DDB,
The percentage of players that care about correct play and pay
schedules is very low. Even machines with signs advertising high pay
back schedules don't seem to get played more frequently. I'm not
referring to some small locals casino with a clique of regular
advantage players, but rather, the large strip properties.
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