Very interesting indeed.
Assumes facts not in evidence, your honor.
A little puffed up consideration of Video poker being the crack of gambling. It’s not. I’ll reserve that for craps.
Used to be a great website, all text up until a year or so ago that gave you the correct strategy for every type of video poker. Now it seems to be all graphical with adverts and pop-ups and hosted on a really slow server.
wizardofodds.com (slow loading, may have to go to cached page) Not all machines are beatable, The only ones I find beatable are deuces wild with parimutuel jackpots with the jackpot being over $1500 for a quarter player like me. As you go higher in denominations the payouts scale better and you might find some of the 5 card draw 8/6’s that I think have a small 1% profit if played perfectly.
Not worth grinding $120k per hour because you can take some really big swings. It’s nice to put in a few bucks though knowing that you’re playing +EV, but not enough to try and make a living out of it (some do).
Just like Trayvon, the msm is intent on shoving years old photos in our faces. To what purpose?
Ok, so either he's a heavy drinker or he barely touches the stuff. Either he's a laid back goofball or he's an old grumpus. Either he's a big tipper or he's not. Can't have it all these different ways. The feds and the msm need to pick a story they can all agree upon and feed it to the restless sheeple.
Spends $120,000 an HOUR to win $100,000 for the whole day.
Yeah.... that’s how he got rich.
Odd. Steve Wynn said none of his employees ever saw Paddock or his woman drink alcohol.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/09/us/las-vegas-stephen-paddock-deposition/index.html
Some of the testimony centered on his gambling.
He described himself as being, at one point, the “biggest video poker player in the world.”
“How do I know that?” Paddock asked rhetorically. “Because I know some of the video poker players that play big. Nobody played as much and as long as I did.”
At the height of his play in 2006, he testified, “I averaged 14 hours a day, 365 days a year.”
“I’ll gamble all night,” he said. “I sleep during the day.”
A decade later, Paddock, 64, would ride the elevator up to the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay, smash out two windows in his suite with a hammer, and aim a 10-minute, rapid-fire volley of gunfire at the 22,000 people gathered below for a country music festival. He hit hundreds, and killed 58.It sounds like the tech changed a circuit board in Paddock's favorite machine when he wasn't looking.
Pro poker players (machine or not) are some of the sleaziest chiselers in the casino.
The old media is remarkably uninterested in Paddock’s political beliefs.
I spent a month in Vegas years ago working on a project at CENTEL of Nevada. I stayed in the Golden Nugget on the old strip. I had a lot of time to kill in the evenings. I walked around a lot, observed and played some. I found one place that had nickel slots and served Coors in a bottle for players. I usually went there after work and bought one roll of nickels and could nurse them until I had finished my 3-4 beer happy hour. I even won a bucket or two full of nickels.
Mostly, I observed. I saw a lot of really sad souls gambling every penny they could panhandle. When I read “professional gambler”, I see these people. I don’t even think winning can make a real gambler happy over a long period of time. It’s quite depressing in reality.