Mike, did your friend who "dropped like 90K trying to be a 'pro'" take the time to learn how to play FPDW? According to Shackleford http://wizardofodds.com/videopoker/appendix1.html with a $60,000 bankroll the risk of ruin in playing $1 FPDW is less than one in ten thousand even with 0% cashback. Sure it's possible to lose $90,000 on $1 FPDW, but with an outlier like that I'd be suspicious that a few drinks or a lack of study might have had something to do with his loss.
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He played fine. FPDW is just about the easiest game out there to learn. I could probably teach my parakeets to play in under an hour!
One bad mistake which I still see is people holding 2 pair.
No his only problem was getting beat by the variance, assuming Larry Volk didn't program the machine...
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, John Nitrox <johndive@...> wrote:
Mike, did your friend who "dropped like 90K trying to be a 'pro'" take the time to learn how to play FPDW? According to Shackleford http://wizardofodds.com/videopoker/appendix1.html with a $60,000 bankroll the risk of ruin in playing $1 FPDW is less than one in ten thousand even with 0% cashback. Sure it's possible to lose $90,000 on $1 FPDW, but with an outlier like that I'd be suspicious that a few drinks or a lack of study might have had something to do with his loss.