| If I were running a casino, I could create the perfect countermeasure by designing the software to periodically alter the card design in some unnoticeable way every now and again. The human player wouldn't even notice but the computer would be hopelessly confused. To some extent this happens anyway because of small problems with PC display systems and internet transmission difficulties. Has your screen ever gone a funny colour when your computer crashed a program? The best robot I have seen online is a program used to analyze the odds offered by a number of different bookmakers at betbrain.com. Use this site for a while and you can get an idea of the limitations of internet robots. The site is useful but can't be taken on trust because the robot that compares odds is incapable of telling the difference between certain types of odds. For example, it may confuse outright odds on a competition with the first in that series of matches. Note that the betbrain robot deals with text and figures, which are much easier to analyze than blackjack graphics. Myth: Players should follow bankroll guidelines figured out by mathematicians. Truth: For a very large percentage of recreational players, the mathematical bankroll considerations are not relevant. Most people who come to Las Vegas to play do not have a fixed gambling bankroll — they have, in essence, as much bankroll as they are willing to allocate to recreation. For them, a mathematical recommendation of a session bankroll is more relevant, but even that’s usually misguided. To a pro player, running up against "risk of ruin" means big trouble. His earning power has been destroyed and he is in serious financial straits. For the visiting recreational player, it means the trip is probably not going to be much as much fun as they had hoped. Yet for some, going for the gusto is the highlight of the trip. If that’s your cup of tea, you have a right to move on up the food chain. You'll probably get eaten, but every so often the prey will turn into predator. The moral of all of this is that we will avoid condescension towards the non-pro or non-expert player. Obviously, each article cannot address the concerns of all the different kinds of players, but at Video Poker Player we will try to provide information for all kinds of players with all kinds of styles. When hitting a royal, says: "Don't tell my wife, okay?" Mid-rolling local/semi-pro |
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