Video Poker

Well, now’s the time to make a start on that proper video poker strategy I been promissing ya. But the theme of today’s little sermon is, “To them that hath, it shall be given”. You gotta have the bankroll to start off with. If you can’t stand the losses those slot machines dole out, don’t start to play more professional. Just play for fun.

Sometimes when you get bit by bad luck, it’s easy to think someone’s just cheated you. There was no way you coulda lost on the slot machines if the game had been straight. Most of us come back to Earth ten seconds later with the sad fact that probabilities always allow for anomalies. The rest of you walking round in a fog seem to think the casino musta cheated you. Get evidence or get a life!

Get rich by playing the slot machines? They’re all good value for them as has the money and no sense. Let’s lay it on the line for ya. The only way these system guys get rich is by selling you their systems. Math is math. If the game is less than fair, there ain’t no system in the world can make it fair.

But not as many as some of you wannabe gamblers who’ve never heard of the principle of statistical independence when it comes to paying the slot machines. So here’s a perfect of example of it in action. The first one in the series “Video Poker Guru” was either a winner or a loser. The question you’ve got to ask yourself if you read this one is, “Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya?

My father had a word for this - cockamamie. More damn foolishness. As if you folks couldn’t open this webpage on slot machines and read without someone having to tell you to. Just get on with it, for God’s sake. I’m one of the world’s greatest experts on video poker prepared to tell it like it is. What’re you waiting for?