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Teaching the uninitiated and stubborn

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So I've been slowly but surely trying to teach my fiancée some of the
fundamentals of video poker (specifically Deuces Wild and Double Bonus), but
she seems kind of stubborn about listening to the optimal-play strategies.
She seems to like going for flushes and straights, which is why I've tried
to steer her more towards DB than FPDW, but she's having a hard time
grasping the intricacies and differences between the strategies for the two
games. She's slowly but surely getting better but at the same time plays
way too many hunches and generally disregards my advice frequently - then
gives me a dirty stare when one of her draws is a winner, or when one of my
computer-strategy recommendations comes up bust (Incidentally, she's outwon
me since she got here, which I explained to her as "you haven't been playing
long enough for the math to catch up with you"). "It's all random" is a
refrain I keep hearing from her as well.

Anyone have any advice about how I can encourage my fiancée to play better
video poker? I've installed Frugal Video Poker on her laptop, but
motivating her to practice hasn't been a whole lot of easy.

Still, for beginner's luck she's done gangbusters, hitting all kinds of
quads on DB and racking up a $100 quad deuces at the Tuscany.

I'd like to make both of us into advantage players but she's not quite
getting it yet.

Jean, would your new book be suited for someone like this?

Thanks for your advice.

~Jay

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#2

<<So I've been slowly but surely trying to teach my fianc�e some of the
fundamentals of video poker (specifically Deuces Wild and Double Bonus), but
she seems kind of stubborn about listening to the optimal-play strategies.>>

I understand your frustration, Jay, and if you two get through this learning process and don't hate each other, your relationship should last forever. Take it from me, who tested this theory when Brad and I took dancing lessons!!!!!

<<Jean, would your new book be suited for someone like this?>>

This is JUST the type of person who will like my format. A beginner just can't "swallow" advantage play in one big meal. It is a step-by-step learning process, with a series of "small bites." Each chapter discusses just one concept, and the chapters are arranged in the natural pattern of the learning process. Chapter 1 gets the beginner started and then each subsequent one adds to that basic knowledge in a logical sequence of additional information. (By the way, I suggest you start your fianc�e on only ONE game - and definitely not Double Bonus. I usually tell beginners to start with JoB and get a lot of practice and understanding on it and only then start on another game.)

This arrangement not only helps the beginner, but allows the more experienced to quickly scan/review the early chapters and then study more carefully the later chapters which contain more advanced concepts. In addition, each chapter is rather complete in itself so someone who is very experienced might just want to pick and choose among these later chapters to fill in any information on specific subjects that they might need, i.e., progressives.

You can go to my Web site below to see a complete list of chapter titles.

By the way, remember that this Saturday, Sept. 9th, is the last day to order the book at the Web site below and get the pre-publication discount price. The book is due from the printers next week, and I will be shipping them just as soon as I get them. And if you are thinking about buying the FVP software that goes with "Frugal Video Poker," the book, you can order them together with no additional postage charge.

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Jean $�ott
"FRUGAL VIDEO POKER" - Pre-pub
orders for this new book now taken at
http://www.FrugalGambler.biz