The Low-end Gambling Life -- June 6, 2018
This Steemit blog is a series of posts based on my day-to-day gambling activities. Basically, I summarize my results and possibly add notes or observations based on what happened on a given day at casinos. I have no idea how well this will or won't be received, but you the reader, should feel free to ask any questions or provide any feedback in the comments.
Next-day delays in posting are common due to having no stable schedules in my line of work.
Category Definitions
I split my results into categories based on the type of game and opportunity to make a profit. These categories are:
Core video poker: These are video poker games/machines that either has a player edge built-in, or which flips the edge from the house's favor into the player's favor when a promotion is applied. If the game has a progressive on the royal flush and/or other hands, the edge is based on the jackpot(s) being at its reset value. In the absence of any other extraordinary opportunities to capitalize on, I expect to spend most of my gambling time on core video poker games.
Other video poker: All other video poker games that are not part of my normal repertoire (e.g. progressive video poker games with excessively high jackpots).
Slot opportunities: Slot machines where I know of or perceive an edge in the player's favor. This edge will always be a temporary one except under the most extraordinary of circumstances. Depending on the opportunity, a slot session could be over in just seconds or take several hours to complete.
Other gambles: Everything else. It could be results from trying out a new slot machine, or playing other games such as video keno.
Summary Of The Day's Results
Core video poker: none
Other video poker: 1 opportunity, went 1 for 1. Spent 3 minutes and finished at +$7.75.
Slot opportunities: 3 opportunities, went 2 for 3. Spent about 10 minutes total and finished at +$90.85.
Other gambles: Had free play to burn, put it through an old-school slot and converted it into $12.95.
Total: +$111.55 for the day
Notes/Observations For The Day
I never knew that MLMers could be so brazen as to try to sell their program hard and make outrageous claims about the thousands of dollars they made in a few weeks, right after they had just admitted to losing about $100 on a slot machine in about 20-30 minutes. Just for the hell of it, I asked the stranger who made this hard sell to me to give me the name of their company, and once I got home, it didn't take very long for my research to turn up that the business model of said company was questionable even without the MLM part. Not only that, but it seems that the stranger didn't even fully understand how their program worked.
The bottom line... if it sounds too good to be true and it's not showing on the screen of a video poker or slot machine, it probably is.