#ulog (107) The Low-end Gambling Life -- Oct. 7, 2018
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 2 hours, 5 minutes and finished at -$140.
Other video poker: none
Slot opportunities: none
Other gambles: Not an actual gamble, but I completed the slot tournament that began on Saturday, and despite failing to improve on my results from Saturday's rounds, I won the event. The top prize was $10,000.
Total: +$9860 for the day 👍
Notes/Observations For The Day
There is something to be said for beginner's luck when it comes to casinos, specifically people who are "new" to a particular casino. It is my personal belief that no gambler of sound mind could walk into their first invitational slot tournament at a casino where they had been playing for just over 3 months, and think that they would secure victory on the first day of their first 2-day tournament. And now I'm one of the [relatively] few people in the world who can claim that they did just that.
Next on my to-do list... fix the ongoing problems of having not won a single video poker session this month, and also of not having hit a single $4000 royal flush since I started my current run of playing at the dollar denomination ($5/hand) in July.