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 single-line machines at $5/hand for a total of about 2 hours, 15 minutes and finished at +$100.
Other video poker: 1 opportunity, went 1 for 1. Spent 3 minutes and finished at +$28.50.
Slot opportunities: 2 opportunities, went 2 for 2. Spent about 15 minutes total and finished at +$23.44.
Other gambles: none
Total: +$151.94 for the day
Notes/Observations For The Day
An ugly day on the video poker machines due to software and hardware malfunctions. The first machine I played had its screen suddenly flicker in and out as the [player's club] card tracking system on the machine rebooted for seemingly no reason, so I had to stop playing and change machines. The second machine I played on had problems with the hold buttons throughout the entire session. Overall, this was one of my worst days accuracy-wise thanks to the combination of not being able to play at a smooth, steady pace, along with those broken buttons.
Casinos need to be stepping up their maintenance game when it comes to video poker machines -- nowadays they're easier to maintain and deal with than most other gambling devices due to their lack of complexity, especially when compared against those so-called "next-gen, cutting edge" slots.