Video Poker Mania

Playing sessions with Video Poker

Video poker and casino slots provide a large part of the “jack” to grow the “greenstalk” to support the giant “castles” that seem to spring up in areas where they become a legalized “recreation.” No wonder the new resort builders are returning to famous fairy tales as themes for their mega-resort casinos.
Video poker combines the skill of an age-old, relatively simple game of draw poker with the ease of playing slot machine. These games of “skill” have been gradually outnumbering ordinary slot machines in many locations. Consequently, casinos and manufacturers are finding it difficult to maintain a balance in play between the two types of machines. Larger progressive jackpots on regular slots try to compete with the new exciting varieties of video poker but it’s a losing battle..
Despite the Industry’s attempts to maintain the slot-video poker balance, video poker is gradually tipping the scale in its favor. This mutant progeny in its infancy and adolescence promise to overshadow its predecessors. It is no wonder, then, why SLOT Machine Mania has given birth to Video Poker Mania.
As video poker Mania escalates, everyone wants a piece of the action. Would be experts try to cash in with system to beat the machines and/or books which outline “sure-win” strategies. Mathematicians, college professors, weekend players, casino employees, and ‘professional” gamblers have given it their best shot. Until now, though, we haven’t seen any authoritative strategies written by someone who has designed and built video poker machines. Video Poker Mania fills that void.
This explains the simple math behind the machines, the percentages of payback, and the casinos hold percentages. It shows why no system can guarantee winning all the time, contrary to all the books that say, “Use this strategy and you will have a 102 or 103 percent payback.” You are plainly not going to get it! — at least not with consistency.
Poker machines are designed to pay back a certain lesser percentage of what goes in, and - by the grace of a computer chip — they will do that. For instance, in a short term, you might put in a few coins, hit a jackpot and walk away a winner. At that given moment the machine’s payback percentage is in your favor, depending on the size of the jackpot. However, the longer you play any machine the closer it will approach its “hold” percentage, that is, the casino’s win percentage. This long-term play almost always proves the percentages out and gives the house that proverbial edge. What better reason could you have to keep your playing sessions short.., and hopefully, sweet?