#ulog (136) The Mid-tier Gambling Life -- Nov. 16-17, 2018

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This Steemit ulog 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. 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. In addition, things have recently gotten hectic at home and have limited my ability to be online. As such, this gambling ulog covers and combines the results from two days of casino activities.


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 Results

Over the two days covered, two casinos were visited and totals by category have been aggregated.

Core video poker: Played single-line machines at $5/hand for combined total of about 3 hours, 5 minutes. Finished Friday at -$820 and Saturday at +$3400 -- a combined total of +$2580.

Other video poker: 1 opportunity, went 0 for 1. A quick play that I finished at -$1.

Slot opportunities: none

Other gambles: I took some free play over to a new slot machine that had recently showed up at one of the casinos, to try it out and see its game mechanics. I converted the free play into $11.09.

Total: +$2590.09 over the 2-day period


Notes/Observations For The Day

At least I'm getting my royal flushes on schedule. Quad 2s are a completely different story -- if video poker machines could taunt, they'd have the voice from the arcade classic Gauntlet blaring out "Gambler needs deuces badly" every time I played.

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