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Dan Paymar Columns
Video Poker for Fun and Profit - One-Coin vs. Five-Coin Play
It has been repeatedly stated that you should always play the maximum number of coins or credits on any video poker machine.
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Video Poker for Fun and Profit - The Basics of Video Poker
It may sound silly to “define” video poker, but it’s surprising how many people think and act as if it were just like poker. They hold kickers, prefer aces over jacks, and even try to bluff the machine. So let’s take a realistic look at the game...
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Video Poker for Fun and Profit - Risk of Ruin
Russian mathematician Evgeny Sorokin has developed a formula to precisely determine the risk of ruin in games with widely ranging payoffs, such as video poker. In this column, we will use the formula to examine a popular video poker game that offers over 100% payback...
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Video Poker for Fun and Profit - Hot and Cold Machines
A reader writes, “I am struggling with the statement that a video poker machine does not have a memory; i.e., that each spin is an independent, random event, unaffected by the results of any previous plays...”
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Video Poker for Fun and Profit - Are the Games Honest?
If you have watched when a machine was opened for a hopper fill, you may have also seen numerous internal buttons and switches. Most of these are simple adjustments which have nothing to do with how the game operates, but considering how much computing power is now available in a laptop computer, imagine what would be possible within a video game machine in a jurisdiction lacking sufficient regulation or enforcement...
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Video Poker for Fun and Profit - Jacks or Better Draw Poker
When selecting a machine, it is extremely important to differentiate between full pay and short pay games. Full pay generally means the best pay schedule for a given type of game, and short pay refers to any game of the same type with a reduced pay schedule...
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Video Poker for Fun and Profit - Having Fun and Winning on Video Poker
For more than two decades video poker has intrigued visitors to casinos. They may have heard that the payback is higher than reel slots (which is generally true), perhaps they like the challenge of making decisions instead of just pulling a handle...
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