Saving pennies - Bob Dancer's "Flow Chart" for Penalty Cards

[Bob_Dancer1]

Harry Porter wrote: However, the idea that the most successful player
would strive to
master the minutiae of the game resonates with me -- that's been my
experience professionally in finance. Frequently the guy who sweats
the small stuff is also the guy who's got him arms securely around the
big picture and knows the whole operation intimately inside and out.

I have every reason to expect that most of the players at the very top
of the food chain are those who have taken their game study to the
limit, along with every other aspect of pro play.

Bingo! Harry clearly is close to understanding what I've been trying to
say. Perhaps his phrasing is easier to understand than mine --- or at
least easier to swallow.

The whole logic behind studying penalty cards isn't the "upfront" 0.001%
or 0.002%. If that's all it was worth, I wouldn't bother either. It's
that grappling with penalty cards is the only way I know to understand
the entire picture. And understanding the entire picture pays big
dividends every time something changes: there's a new promotion, a
progressive, or even a game that's new to you. Forcing yourself to
revisit the small stuff just before you play guarantees you aren't
missing some of the not-so-small because you haven't reviewed the game
recently.

The 0.001% figure assumes you're forgetting nothing from the
penalty-free strategy. But very few people can play that well without
regular review. And most people don't review strategies. Ask yourself
--- when was the last time you reviewed the strategies thoroughly? If
you were trying to learn penalty-cards, you'd review more because
penalty cards are more complicated. Even if you didn't get all of the
penalty cards correctly mastered (and some are quite intricate), you're
at least reviewing and learning the regular strategy better. And there's
real dollars-and-cents value in that.

Thank you Harry.

Bob Dancer

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[John9]

In early October, I was passing thru Mandalay Bay and stopped in the high-limit area to check the machines. Contrary to what the database indicated, I found that 9/6 JOB was available, but only at the higher denominations on a bank of IGT MG/MD uprights. I only had time to play for a few minutes, then I left.
   
  A couple of weeks ago, I went back to Mandalay Bay to put some coin thru, but alas! the bank of machines was gone, replaced by newer short-pay slant-tops.
   
  Did anyone else notice this change? I wonder if the uprights were only there temporarily, or if they had been there for a long time and now have been permanently replaced. Perhaps someone else can verify.

John

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