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Bob Dancer Video Poker 365 Articles - The Battle of Vicksburg

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Part 1

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#2

A math error got past the editors here.

From the article:

The best game they found was $5 9/6 Jacks or Better. With the current
slot club, this would be worth $30 per hour back in Las Vegas, but
only about $20 in Vicksburg because of the confiscatory 3%
non-refundable fee on all W2Gs in Mississippi. Pedro and Maria didn't
know it, but with this fee it changes certain plays, like from Ah Kc
Qd Jd 5s, you should hold QJ in Las Vegas (where royals pay $20,000
and straight flushes pay $1,250), but AKQJ in Mississippi because
royals there pay "only" $19,400 and straight flushes net only $1,175
but you still get a tax form.

3% of $1250 would be $37.50, not $75.

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Part 3

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#3

<<Maria was very eager to go. Pedro was a bit more unsure. After all, he
didn't have the 9/6/8000 strategy mastered. I told him it didn't matter very
much.>>

Hell. July. Snowball.

Cogno

#4

To my "Maria was very eager to go. Pedro was a bit more unsure. After all, he didn't have the 9/6/8000 strategy mastered. I told him it didn't matter very much."

Cogno scoffed: "Hell. July. Snowball."

Perhaps I could have said it better, but&nbsp;what I meant was the overlay was so high that whether they played 9/6/8000 or 9/6/4000 strategy, this was going to be a better play than anything they had going elsewhere at the time.

I still believe this to be the case.

If Cogno's point is that using the correct strategy would make a significant difference, he's correct. It definitely would. But Peter was considering staying home in Las Vegas because he didn't have the 9/6/8000 strategy completely mastered. This, I believed then and believe now, would have been a mistake.

Bob Dancer

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#5

(Horizon, Double Royals, 2004)

Bob beat me to that play by about a week or so. It was a pretty strong
play (at the time, best game was 9-7 DB). I stumbled on to it, made a
couple of phone calls only to hear the Dancer burned the game out (I'm
sure from Bob's POV, better him than someone else, and who am I to
disagree?).

Horizon was the former Harrahs Vicksburg, not the best area, and I
felt like you were in action walking from the casino to the garage
accross the street.

This is kind of the nature of the business, if you have to go to
Vicksburg MS in July to put down an over 2% multiline play, you go do
it. I have this rule about going to Tunica, and my standards for going
there (I think it's $400/hr), and Vicksburg makes Tunica look like
South Beach, if you get my drift. That being said, some of the very
best plays are in places like Vicksburg.

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