Steve Bourie, interviews video poker expert Bob Dancer about How to End Up Being a Professional Video Poker Player. Bob has won more than one million dollars playing video poker and he gives his pointers on how anybody can learn the information required to become a professional player. Subjects covered consist of: how to discover the very best games, examining the benefits of gamers clubs, utilizing proper strategies, experimenting video poker software application, just how much a player can be anticipated to make, plus much more.
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So if Bob had gotten Unlucky that first six months (and unlucky DOES happen) would this interview still have existed?
The +EV opportunities PRE-2000 were ridiculous compared to now.
If he had been unlucky during that six month period he certainly wouldn’t have written that book. However, if you read Million Dollar Video Poker, he was able to win most of that money because he found a flaw in some machines where the players club was giving too much cash back. There are a lot of pros, or extremely knowledgeable players, video poker players out there in the gambling world, but Bob might be the only one who is willing to sit down for a video interview. All of the others prefer to remain anonymous.
Do you blame them for wanting to stay anonymous ?
Giving away secrets writing how-to books is not wise for the gambling community as a whole. It only creates more competition. You may get some gullible minnows in the beginning, but some of them will become bigger fish and you helped them get into the business. Authors write books to make a couple of million that they won’t have to make by gambling. Once they’re done with it, they’re done with it.
Dancer’s story is not copyable. Betting on finding machine with flaw is complete luck and unpredictable. He should stop misleading people to play VP coz you if that’s the way to make money, why Dancer wouldn’t play any more himself?!
nomearod Because it’s a grind. Being a professional gambler is not fun, there are huge swings no matter what you do or how good you are, there are times when you will have a losing streak and lose real money. You have to be sure your bankroll can withstand that loss. But to me the most significant thing is the monotony and tediousness of the thing; it is NOT fun or easy sitting in front of a VP machine for hours at a time, playing 700 or so hands an hour, trying not to make a single mistake, all in an attempt to not lose too much before you hit the highly elusive Royal that comes only once in 40,000 hands on average.
Rough crowd here. Let’s get the facts straight though, Bob is beating the slot club/promotions, not the games themselves. He’s not like us table games AP’s where we straight up beat the games WITHOUT using a players card. If he didn’t get those promos, extra points, drawings, etc., we’d never hear from him. It’s a tough grind.
Anyone making money consistently in a casino is facing a tough grind. I know a few professional gamblers and I would describe it as a hard way to make an easy living. The general public thinks it would be great to be a professional gambler, but that is a fantasy because the reality is much different. There can be long periods of time where, even though the player is making the correct decision, he/she can have bad luck and lose a lot of money. This would take a psychological toll on most people and they would not be able to handle it. Then, if the player does get a run of good luck on his/her side the casino will probably take a closer look at their account to see why that is happening and they may get banned. So, while the general public thinks a professional player can to a casino and win all the time, that just doesn’t happen.
True but skilled gambling is still sometimes the only way for many average people who aren’t doctors or lawyers to make 100k a year, or achieve $1 million dollars like Bob. It can be a grind but unlike a regular job where you’re hourly earnings are capped, in gambling your earnings are based on your skills and determination, and the sky is the limit.
@Violenza Fantastica It’s true professional gamblers can make a great wage but it’s worth noting there is something of a limit to how much you can make. A card counter or video poker player with the biggest bankroll in the world probably isn’t making over $1 million a year no matter what hours they put in, they’re limited by table maxes and backoffs.
Wow, this is great. Thank you! Being a video poker AP is way better than being a card counter IMO. You get way less heat and you don’t even have to deal with back offs!
Way less hourly EV too.
I think in 2017 (or when this video was made) Bob Dancer is earning more by his products than his Video Poker profits! (Otherwise he wouldn’t have time for this promotion!) 😛
Is the rng fair and tested/regulated in those gameking machines?
In regulated gaming jurisdictions in the U.S. the chips must be tested and approved in order to be placed in the machines.
There are lots of reviewers here who just want to get rich quick. If you want to make a million at VP, you’re going to have to put the work in. I listen to Bob and Richard’s podcasts, and those guys have years of gained knowledge. The proof that Bob has made the money is because casinos have hired him as a consultant to protect against players from milking the system.
So he’s selling players on the idea that they can beat the casino based on the slot clubs, while at the same time he’s teaching casinos how to stop that. You don’t see the issue there? By definition he has to be scamming one of the two, and it’s most likely that he’s scamming the players. For example, MGM has so severely cracked down on their VP across all their properties that it’s not possible to play with a positive expected value on their machines.
I like this!
Bob Dancer is the greatest video poker player of all time.
Question I play video poker recreationally and I play full play jacks or better I know strategy and if the machine pays 99% (I make some mistakes) I just seems baffling that some casinos won’t rebate that 1% back is that because they are aware you will have an edge if they rebate more
They may rebate that 1% back to you in the form of cashback, bounceback and comps. However, the casinos want to make money so those benefits are usually greatly reduced on all full-pay video poker machines.
Just played 200 hands of video poker at wizard of odds. I made 12 mistakes and was down by 110.
Guess I will order Bob’s cd rom.
You can turn on ‘warn on strategy errors’ and it will break down your mistakes. After awhile you see the pattern of what to do and why it makes sense.
I found a casino in Louisiana (Coushatta) that has 1 Multi Strike machine. It has 3 demominations: .25 .50 $1
The .25 and .50 has a 97% payback or better while the $1 has a 98% or better payback
As far as I know this casino does not have very many promotions for video poker, so is this even worth playing
since the potential returns can be big?
No that’s a terrible video poker game. Unless you don’t mind losing in the long run. If that’s the best your casino has your best bet is to look from a game with progressive jackpot. Once the jackpot is high enough you have a postive EV situation.
15:10 When things got awkward. 😃
When I stopped watching. Thanks for the heads up
🤣🤣🤣…I wasn’t ready! 🤣🤣🤣
Wtf?! 😂
Ok, so essentially you are playing for the comps, perfect play = 99.5% payback + comps = profit.
I lost $1,000 last night playing 9/6 Jacks of Better doing almost perfect strategy. 9/6 JoB should have at least 99% payback.
@Dmitriy Lyubarskiy It has to do with A LOT OF LUCK. don’t fight a tight machine. Just get away from it, go to another machine or just leave the casino. Come another day when luck is there
There is one winner always… the owner!
Always !!!!!
Nope. lol. Dancer wouldn’t exist otherwise.
I just started getting interested in video poker I live on the gulf coast on walking distance to a casino, there’s several in my area, great videos
Do you have Jokers Wild games there with the jackpot being 5 of a kind paying 4000 coins for max bet of 5 coins? If not then you are missing out on a winning game. Atlantic City has many of these games made by I G T and it,s amazing that no one talks about these games! I wonder Why???
Scott Miller because IGT sucks. BALLEY BETTER.
What I don’t like about the training software is that if you make a mistake, it just tells you are wrong. It doesn’t tell you why the play you made is wrong which I think is an important part of learning.
Some of them will. They will tell you how many coins bet your decision would cost you and what the correct play is
This is good information and its possible that it can be done. The one thing that most people don,t have if they are kind of anxious and aren,t in real good financial shape is a big bankroll and Luck and perfect strategy!!!!!
This is a nothing but a commercial for his books. This guy is full of it. I’ve played video poker for years as well, and let me tell you, its not always a certain strategy like playing the odds. Sometimes its just instinct and knowing that machine.
Every game in the casino is based on math. When it comes to video poker there is only one mathematically correct way to play any hand. If you are going to play video poker then you should take the time and effort to learn how to play your hands correctly rather than relying on hunches.
If you’re trying to become a professional video poker player, there’s probably a greater chance that you’ll become the next Stephen Paddock instead of turning a profit.
🙁 Freaking mass shooter..Or be like me! Win 1 out of every 3 times instead of 1 out of every 20 after studying this stuff and being excited about it.
Referencing this interview and if all being equal, Steve would be a better teacher than Bob.
I’ve sit in on a lot of engineering sessions over the years and I had noticed that were the teachers and then there were the talkers in any one session. I guess that the style of delivery was the key.
Just my observation.
Sounds easy enough. Buy this guy’s books, and off I go. Thanks for the infomercial.