The Difference Between Video-poker Machines And Slot Machines
In reality, video-poker machines are slot machines but they are slot machines of a very special sort. Like regular slots, the random-number generator (or dealer-in-the-machine) selects the sequences at random and these sequences correspond to the symbols that will be displayed for the players. In the case of video poker, these sequences or symbols will be displayed by card values. However, unlike regular slot machines, the video-poker machine is easily readable and the player can determine exactly what the percentage payback is on the type of machine he wishes to play. The video-poker player can ascertain if he is playing a machine that pays 96 percent of all the money put in it, or 98 percent, or even a hundred percent or more. The slot player has no such knowledge. He doesn't know whether he's playing a 99 percent return machine or an 83 percent return machine because these values are hidden in the programming of the machine. There is no method in slots for analyzing the type of machine you are playing vis-a-vis the casino edge.
Not so with a video-poker machine. Assuming honesty in programming, the video-poker player knows exactly what the odds are that he faces for any given hand, since these odds are based on a 52-card deck or, in the case of games with jokers, decks of 53 or more cards. The video-poker player also knows exactly what percentage edge the casino has over him or what edge he has over the casino since this can be determined by analyzing the payoff schedule printed prominently on the face of the machine. The casino's or player's edge is determined by the amount of the payoffs for the various hands—always assuming that the player is using the correct strategies for the machine he is playing and that the machine is dealing an honest game.
This is a radical departure from traditional slots where most everything is a great unknown. Yes, the slot player knows that if he lines up certain symbols, he'll be paid a certain amount of money, but what he doesn't know is the frequency of these symbols' appearance. Without such knowledge the slot player cannot determine the nature of the risk he is taking when playing any given machine. Thankfully, slot players can now make a strong, educated guess as to which machines are loose and which are tight by using the revelations made in my book Break the One-Armed Bandits! concerning their placement in the casino. In addition, slot players have an excellent chance of finding and distinguishing which of several machines would be loose or tight in relation to each other by following the advice I gave in my newsletter Chance and Circumstance ("Slot Revelation: Using the Casinos' Computers Against Them," $15, Paone Press, Box 610, Lynbrook, NY 11563). Still the most astute slot player cannot know with certainty the exact percentages he faces on all machines and kinds of games as can a video-poker player. The slot player must resort to cleverness and outside information to ferret out good machines. The video-poker player merely has to understand how to read the machine's chart.
Thus, there is no secret to which video-poker machines are "loose" and which are "tight" as there is with traditional slots. That's because the loose and tight machines can be distinguished rather easily. With the proper playing strategies, the loose machines can be beaten by the player. Naturally, the tight machines far outweigh the loose ones in the land of video poker, but that's the way of it in the casino world. The casinos are not in the business of making it easy for the patron to win. Their mission is to make it easy for you to lose and even easier for you to actually enjoy losing. Luckily, the astute player doesn't have to join the chorus in this choir of the lost because he can select his machines carefully and be confident that he has a damn good shot at the casino's money. In video poker the player can get the best of it. Indeed, in Nevada you will find a great many machines that are worth playing and it's a dollar-wise but pound-foolish player who selects video poker as his game and then doesn't play the best machines and the best strategies.
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