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.
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 The Day's Results
Core video poker: Played one single-line machine at $5/hand for about 1 hour, 20 minutes and finished at +$4545.
Other video poker: none
Slot opportunities: none
Other gambles: none
Total: +$4545 for the day 👍
Notes/Observations For The Day
The Good: I had over $1500 of free play to deal with thanks to a drawing win last week, and after running it through the core game I got 95% of it back.
The Better: Got a $4000 royal flush.
The Bad: On my normal (non-free play) action, I had a 91% return against the drop (should be 94%).
The Ugly: I'm very close to 40,000 consecutive hands without a single set of quad 2s. If I included the hands that I played in a video poker tournament after the gambling session, I would be over 40,000 hands without the quad 2s. The deuces cycle for the game I'm playing is between 5300-5400 hands.