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How VP Changed Gaming's Devolution

Where it that Website? I can’t seem to find it.

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From: mailto:vpF…@…com
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2015 11:44 AM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] How VP Changed Gaming's Devolution

He's probably talking about advantageplayer.com, the main advantage player website.

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I personally think Krum was referring to vpFREE. And while vpFREE has over 11,000 members the question is how many are visiting the site every day. I have a little thing I sometimes do to get a handle on how many people are reading me. When I put the story "You Better Know The Rules In While Sulphur Springs" up here, at the end of the story I put a link to an obscure youtube video that had only had a couple of hundred views in a couple of years. Youtube videos show the running count of how many views the video has had. I wrote the number down then posted the story and the link. Through the next couple of days the running count had only gone up about 300 views.

I have an imgur account where I upload screenshots of gaming machines. Imgur is very easy to use. I take a picture with my phone. Then email the picture to myself. Download the picture to documents. Then upload it to imgur. Imgur gives the picture a link that I can post on any forum so that others can view the screenshot. Imgur also gives a running count on how many views the picture has had.

When I post an imgur link to a screenshot of a game it usually only gets a few hundred views even though the membership may be 11,000. However, I got a good laugh when I posted up a picture telling vpFREE members "This is a picture of me and my friends drinking and having fun at the bar" The picture showed me looking like I was passed out on the bar. I intentionally did that so you couldn't see my face. The next day I went to imgur and the picture had already had over 1600 views. I LMAO. Sorry folks, it was just my weird sense of humor.

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I've been isolated in Montana for 8 years now. I have no idea what the casino floors of Nevada look like these days.But I made a trip to Deadwood a couple of years ago. The machines were 90% video line games and only 10% video poker. Coeur D'Alene Casino in Idaho is the same way. And I visited a casino on the Spokane River in Washington. It was 100% video line games. Those games have a much bigger house edge than video poker. I'm wondering if thats the trend around the country these days.

So this proves that most people, myself included do not click on links just because they are there. They need some sort of reason. There are a number of people on vpfree who only get the digests and probably never click on limks.
A more interesting statistic in my opinion would be how many people go the the vpfree2 website to check out video poker inventories. This would give you some relevant information on people's desire for knowledge.

Regards
A.P.

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From: "mickeycrimm@yahoo.com [vpFREE]" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2015 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] How VP Changed Gaming's Devolution

I personally think Krum was referring to vpFREE. And while vpFREE has over 11,000 members the question is how many are visiting the site every day. I have a little thing I sometimes do to get a handle on how many people are reading me. When I put the story "You Better Know The Rules In While Sulphur Springs" up here, at the end of the story I put a link to an obscure youtube video that had only had a couple of hundred views in a couple of years. Youtube videos show the running count of how many views the video has had. I wrote the number down then posted the story and the link. Through the next couple of days the running count had only gone up about 300 views.

I have an imgur account where I upload screenshots of gaming machines. Imgur is very easy to use. I take a picture with my phone. Then email the picture to myself. Download the picture to documents. Then upload it to imgur. Imgur gives the picture a link that I can post on any forum so that others can view the screenshot. Imgur also gives a running count on how many views the picture has had.

When I post an imgur link to a screenshot of a game it usually only gets a few hundred views even though the membership may be 11,000. However, I got a good laugh when I posted up a picture telling vpFREE members "This is a picture of me and my friends drinking and having fun at the bar" The picture showed me looking like I was passed out on the bar. I intentionally did that so you couldn't see my face. The next day I went to imgur and the picture had already had over 1600 views. I LMAO. Sorry folks, it was just my weird sense of humor.

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I've been isolated in Montana for 8 years now. I have no idea what the casino floors of Nevada look like these days.But I made a trip to Deadwood a couple of years ago. The machines were 90% video line games and only 10% video poker. Coeur D'Alene Casino in Idaho is the same way. And I visited a casino on the Spokane River in Washington. It was 100% video line games. Those games have a much bigger house edge than video poker. I'm wondering if thats the trend around the country these days.<<<<

I was in a large casino in Oklahoma recently. They never had an impressive vp inventory, but they were now down to 4 machines plus their bartops. I think some markets would tolerate removal or near complete removal of video poker and others definitely would not. Personally, I think a casino is missing the boat (leaving ev on the table) if it doesn't incorporate vp on its' floor. A lot of the newer games generate a real compulsion for action. Some of the game designs are really very clever. I think there is a lot of money to be made off of them.

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