By poker_boy | 3 Comments
Last updated: Friday, May 28, 2010 | 71 Views Tags: answerers, brick and mortar, casino poker, casino profits, financial interest, game programming, online poker, probabilities and statistics, winning poker
What’s this week’s question? Let’s dive straight in…
Every brick and mortar casino has slot machines [inspected and regulated by outsiders with no financial interest in casino profits] programmed to simulate physical blackjack and poker play.
Do you folks who evangelize online gambling against computer programs online that might, or mightn’t be regulated experience similar winning when you play casino poker and blackjack machines that you pronounce yourselves to be winning online?
Or is there something about online game programming that’s different when you actually set foot in a casino and reality takes hold?
Just curious.
Are you talking about the kind of poker some casinos have where you’re playing against people, but on a computer instead of with cards? I’ve never played at a casino that has that, but it ought to be beatable as long as it’s against people and not against the house.
If you’re talking about video poker, then no, no poker pro in their right mind would make a claim that they can beat video poker, without some way of cheating. The odds of catching the hands are the same as in 5-card draw, but the payout odds are insanely rigged against the player. The game has a small amount of skill (which can be memorized in about 5 minutes with some googling), but otherwise is 99% luck, in both the short term AND long term. Have you ever even played video poker? Like LegFu said, it’s not anywhere in the ballpark similar to multiplayer poker. I don’t think you’d be asking the question if you played it. It’s like asking if a poker pro thinks he can beat Let It Ride just because both have the word "poker" in their name.
Mike Smith
May 28, 2010
Never seen a poker slot machine. If you are referring to video poker, then you should know that has nothing in common with playing Hold em against other opponents on-line.
Then again, I’ve never professed to be a professional poker player, so maybe they seen these machines that you are talking about.
May 28, 2010
If they did, then they’d never ever tell anyone. Why give the casino owners a lead in tracking you down and banning you. The same goes for people who claim they have betting systems that work. If these systems worked then these people who create them would never ever tell anyone.
Let’s say you have a betting system that allows you to win at craps 60% of the time. So you bet $1,000 ten times and get paid off at even money when you win. So, you’ll win 6 times, lose 4 times, and have $12,000 when you are done. You’ve made a profit of $2,000.
If you keep your mouth shut then you can go from casino to casino to casino all around the world and never get caught. You make $2,000 per casino visit. If you visit one casino per day then you earn $2,000 times 365 days or $730,000! Why on Earth would you EVER tell anyone about your betting system.
May 28, 2010
I heard Lebron James was bad at EA’s NBA 2010