What was his theory ? the the games are rigged by IGT for specific
casinos? or the casinos are reprograming eproms to cheat their
patrons at video poker ?
Heres a bit of a news flash. Those casinos dont have to cheat.
97% of all the patrons literally hand over their wallets when they
ride into town. A bad VP player can lose more through unwise
decisions than any slot player. Of the 3% of the players who can
beat VP 1.5 % can only do so marginally. OF the 3% only 2% play
enough to create results that are statistically significant for
their play to be deemed "positive". Of the 3% all of them "fall
down" from time to time by going on tilt , playing bingo or craps,
is a gambling loser or has a significant other that does the same.
Lets look at card counting. card counting came out in the mid 60's.
when Ed Thorp and a guy named Harvey Dubner combined thier methods
into a system. thorps was called the 10 count and dubners was basic
strategy. Now the players had a way to beat the casinos
mathamatically which undeniably worked.
Las vegas was still pretty much of a dusty little town back then.
And we can see how the card counters have ground that dusty little
town down to nothing more than a gas station and a single traffic
light. Bull shit the vegas you see today was built on card counters
and video poker players. More succinctly Bad ones.
Heres my tilt on the VP decline lately. Certain CEO's and
accountants see VP as a sacrificial lamb. VP is a game that can be
beat and they plan on doing the beating. not by playing it but by
using it as a patsy. they say well heres your problem , you have all
these video poker games that can be beat and here are some people
doing it. A quick numbers crunch and a report or two later and its
been "proved". they order the machines yanked and the slot clubs
retooled. Next they stick out their hand and say "Bonus Please"
then "goodbye". Now 3 or so years down the road when those bean
counters and C level exects are long gone as are the winning and the
losing VP players alike the stockholders and owners are wondering ,
WTF happened ? we used to have a hold yea big and now we got bubkis.
We better get some accountants in here and a few new marketing minds
to get us back on track. and lo and behold you start getting the
good games back. the same thing is happening at BJ and surprise
surprise you are starting to see some of the games coming back.
slowly but they are. mostly in the small out of the way joints first.
its a simple cycle we have seen happen in the last 5 years or so.
why are visitor rates down? simple they are down because the casino
bean counters have degraded the games to a point were they players
rarly ever have a winning trip. And we all know you can slaughter a
sheep only once. and if you shave him too close your have a hell of
a time shearing him next season. but the bean counters dont care
about next season because they will be busy shearing someone eles
sheep by then.
But all that aside your job is to find an edge and take advantage of
it. either at VP or at tiddly winks.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, TedChee@a... wrote:
In a message dated 8/31/2003 7:50:07 PM Pacific Standard Time,
vpFREE@yahoogroups.com writes:
> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 20:11:51 -0000
> From: "mkl54321" <mkl54321@y...>
> Subject: Final post on this..or any other subject
>