Video Poker Profits!

I don't update this blog much because there's not really much to blog about locally... But I realize there are enough people that make regular trips to other places to gamble, so I wanted to pitch my Video Poker book here.

Video Poker Profits from the Ground Up is available in paperback from Amazon and on the Kindle eReader. I wrote my book with several goals in mind, some of which are:

1. Share my knowledge of how you can lose less and succeed more often at video poker... It is a skill game, but like all skill games luck is involved too, but can you name any game including a slot machine that the jackpot is only a 1 in 40,000 chance of hitting? Of course you can play 1 hand and hit it, or you can play 1 million hands and not hit it. But having proper play strategy and knowing how to read paytables helps ensure a larger chance of hitting a royal flush without having to pay heavily for it.

2. To promote knowledge of, and hopefully enhance the popularity of video poker. I won't say it is endangered, but a lot of casinos treat it like it is. I want to see a growing excitement and more competition in the video poker areas of gambling. Without competition you end up with bad paytables that are not at all profitable to play.

3. To give everyone a chance to see the appeal of video poker and help them understand the game better. All too often I hear "I don't play video poker because it is too complicated" and "I don't understand it". It probably ends up like this due to how simple it really is.

4. To dispel myths about the game. You cannot simply push buttons at random and get the same results. What you hold affects the outcome. If you throw away a good hand or otherwise miss an important play, the machine in no way will compensate you for your mistake. Except in the case of video pulltab based machines which aren't real video poker. If you can throw away a pat hand and a genie flies across the screen and gives it back to you in the same or different suit, then you are playing video pulltabs and nothing you do changes the outcome of the game. It is all for show in this instance.

So... If you would like to give video poker a try but aren't sure how or where to begin, my book is written with the beginner in mind, and it includes many strategy tables for many varieties of video poker. This allows you to practice perfect play and begin to get a feel for the difference strategy makes in a typical session.

I played video poker for years without realizing the potential it really had until I mastered the strategies for myself. The result is only about 1 in 10 sessions were break even or net losers. The other 9 times I profited. And you can always play with nickels and scale up if you want. As long as the paytables are the same it doesn't matter what denomination you are playing on as long as you have a sufficient bankroll for that size of machine.

I did my best to write everything from my years of experience playing the game profitably. Sure, not everyone can be winners, and you are wondering how can someone regularly profit at video poker. The thing of it is, if everyone played perfect strategy, casinos would make a lot less on video poker. I figure the average person is lucky to get 80 or 90% return on a full pay 99.54% jacks or better. You only get 99.54% over the long run of playing perfectly. Does that not beat the 80 to 90% return of slot machines? Every hand you miss playing properly adds to the casino's bottom line. And when people see you winning, they will want their turn to win and play the games you are playing but without the knowledge they will probably lose. But there are two different kinds of gambler. There is the "I would rather go to the casino than the movie theater, it's my entertainment" type person. Then you have the gambler who plays for profit, like me. I learned from watching other people who did it, and since it was something I could replicate for myself, I wrote the book hoping I could enable others to do this as well. I don't have any good video poker options close to home, so I took up writing and publishing. Which, is much to your good fortune.

I thank you for reading this post, and hope you will give my book a chance. I appreciate it, and I promise you it is well worth the investment. And if a casino you go to doesn't have video poker, ask them why not and tell them you want to see it there. If no one complains, nothing will get fixed!