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September 30, 2021, 10:51:30 AM
And what's going to happen is absolutely unpredictable.
That's exactly why we talk about probabilities Smiley Some hands are just in some situations much more likely than others, but that is of course no guarantee that the cards are actually drawn so. Otherwise, probably no one would play the lottery, even there it is purely from the probability almost impossible that you win.

Poker is certainly one of the games in a casino that depends least on luck, closely followed by other card games such as blackjack.



I agree

But predicting cards in poker is much easier than predicting numbers in lottery that is going to make you rich. 52 cards in a deck in poker game that only has 2,598,960 total combinations while there is a 1 in a 13,983,816 chances you could win the jackpot in lottery in a classic 6/49 game. But for an average gambler, surely they won't do math while playing poker because they don't have much time for that unless they are practicing at home so that they could execute it easily in an actual game.
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September 30, 2021, 07:05:21 AM
godfather and I


What is a catch with video poker is that you can try to increase every winning with gambling lower/higher!
You mean the option to raise bet after the initial draw? I think I saw it somewhere, but long time ago on an old computer. Nowadays, video poker in crypto casino is just like Stake's version AFAIK.

Can you actually win at video poker?
Yes, why anyone would play an unwinnable game?!
It's just like any casino game with % HE, it means on average after millions of draw, you'll likely lose your money.
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September 30, 2021, 12:48:38 AM
I'd much prefer slots because I don't have the time to learn the basic strategy for video poker but I can definitely see why people would prefer the latter.
People who do not want to know many things will select slots as the easiest gambling games. People are trying to play video poker because they feel that the game is more exciting than the other gambling games or they can see that video poker is the game they are looking for because they already have the skills to play that game. People will choose whatever gambling games they want to play and if they think that they have skills in certain gambling games, they will play that game and will not play the other as they do not know how to play that game.
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September 29, 2021, 11:42:11 PM
I have played a good bit between both slot machines and video poker.  Personally I learned poker during the great "texas holdem rush" during the early/mid 2000's and absolutely still love playing real, sit down in person poker, so playing on a machine is not that fun for me.  However playing slots is fun because it often take absolutely zero skill, kind of like scratching a lotto ticket..so I enjoy both at different times.
I also have a thing for poker game because of the use of a machine in playing that makes it require skills to do so, but playing slot is manually done and most time easy to play and win. I lost interest in poker games when I lost all my bet during an in house game in the early days of 2020, which made me give up on poker games.
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September 29, 2021, 04:13:50 PM

Or you can hold all the spades and hope to win a regular Flush
Or you can hold 4,5,7,8 and hope to get a 6 Cheesy
See, at least there are four scenarios: straight flush, flush, straight, and two pairs.
You can win or lose depend on your decision, it means you can make poor decisions -> guilt, as if you lose because of you, not the system/luck.

Ordinary slots don't have this expand payline, gamble feature, lock reels, etc. The only guilt was why didn't I increase/decrease the bet.



What is a catch with video poker is that you can try to increase every winning with gambling lower/higher! It's my beginning in gambling, the first machines in the neighborhood! It was not about hitting the good multiplier by draws, it was to try to increase them by betting on lower/higher after that! Some slots have that option to collect/gamble, some don't!

My godfather and I are examples of that... I don't like that at all, to choose what to keep, to choose lower/higher... I like to play and to either win or lose, bonuses where we can't choose anything... but my godfather chose games where he can play that simple lower/higher game and to multiply his winnings with his hits!

So I can only think that both exist for a reason, not everyone has the same taste when it comes to these gambling games! We are different, and that's why different game options exist!
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September 29, 2021, 03:54:06 PM
Modern-day gambling has increased the quest to gain more skills in playing the various gambling games, while some games require skills to play them, others are relatively simple to play and require little or no skills in playing them.
As the topic specifies slot and video poker are the most friendly and simple games to play for me but the two have some disparity which I will love us to discuss on this thread.
1 what are the similarities between slot games and video pokers?
2 between slot and video poker which is more technical and requires skills to play?
3 what are your personal experiences with both games?
Can you actually win at video poker? Quite honestly I have never played video poker as I prefer the real thing when I am at the casino, to me it just seems like another slot machine with slightly different mechanics to simulate poker but at the end of the day you are still going to lose money at a similar rate than the money you lose against slot machines, however I could be wrong about this and video poker actually could take some skill to play.
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September 29, 2021, 03:30:26 PM
Modern-day gambling has increased the quest to gain more skills in playing the various gambling games, while some games require skills to play them, others are relatively simple to play and require little or no skills in playing them.
As the topic specifies slot and video poker are the most friendly and simple games to play for me but the two have some disparity which I will love us to discuss on this thread.
1 what are the similarities between slot games and video pokers?
2 between slot and video poker which is more technical and requires skills to play?
3 what are your personal experiences with both games?

To answer your question, I actually think that there isn't that much similarity apart from the user interface.

They are two completely different game modes that offer the user completely different amounts of control over outcomes.

I'd much prefer slots because I don't have the time to learn the basic strategy for video poker but I can definitely see why people would prefer the latter.
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September 29, 2021, 02:56:08 PM
I have played a good bit between both slot machines and video poker.  Personally I learned poker during the great "texas holdem rush" during the early/mid 2000's and absolutely still love playing real, sit down in person poker, so playing on a machine is not that fun for me.  However playing slots is fun because it often take absolutely zero skill, kind of like scratching a lotto ticket..so I enjoy both at different times.
Same impressions and comments between both games which it cant really be truly compared since they do serve out different markets considering that luck based and strategic based is totally a different story.

For videopoker this one doesnt really need up some skill too thats why it does have that kind of slot vibe when you do play based up on experience which similarities arent really way too far-off.
So its a personal choice whether one do likes to play slots or videopoker.
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September 29, 2021, 08:52:45 AM
~ You have to think which cards to keep and which to redraw. There's guilt when you made the wrong decision, unlike slots when I barely feel any guilt even if I lose.

Man, I can assure you that there's nothing you can do to improve your performance in Video Poker. So, you can stop blaming yourself for a "wrong decision". Smiley

For example, while playing "Jacks or better" you see these cards at start



you decide to hold 55 because this is the right move in terms of probability.



and then, say, you get another pair after the draw, and you win a bit, 2x payout, but you could also choose holding 458 of Spades, and then get 67 of Spades and win 75x with a Straight Flush. And what's going to happen is absolutely unpredictable.

Feeling a guilt would be the same as to blame yourself for not choosing to play with 5 lines here:



Good example. I even wondered if it is possible to "specially" increase your losing rate if you play such games? For example, when playing dice, we can neither win nor change the rate of loss, no matter how hard we try - at a distance, the house will always take its advantage and it will be exactly what it is (now it is about 0.5% in almost all games as far as I know).
legendary
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September 29, 2021, 08:28:54 AM
I have played a good bit between both slot machines and video poker.  Personally I learned poker during the great "texas holdem rush" during the early/mid 2000's and absolutely still love playing real, sit down in person poker, so playing on a machine is not that fun for me.  However playing slots is fun because it often take absolutely zero skill, kind of like scratching a lotto ticket..so I enjoy both at different times.
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September 29, 2021, 08:24:32 AM
And what's going to happen is absolutely unpredictable.
That's exactly why we talk about probabilities Smiley Some hands are just in some situations much more likely than others, but that is of course no guarantee that the cards are actually drawn so. Otherwise, probably no one would play the lottery, even there it is purely from the probability almost impossible that you win.

Poker is certainly one of the games in a casino that depends least on luck, closely followed by other card games such as blackjack.

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September 29, 2021, 06:19:30 AM

Or you can hold all the spades and hope to win a regular Flush
Or you can hold 4,5,7,8 and hope to get a 6 Cheesy
See, at least there are four scenarios: straight flush, flush, straight, and two pairs.
You can win or lose depend on your decision, it means you can make poor decisions -> guilt, as if you lose because of you, not the system/luck.

Ordinary slots don't have this expand payline, gamble feature, lock reels, etc. The only guilt was why didn't I increase/decrease the bet.

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September 29, 2021, 04:27:57 AM
~ You have to think which cards to keep and which to redraw. There's guilt when you made the wrong decision, unlike slots when I barely feel any guilt even if I lose.

Man, I can assure you that there's nothing you can do to improve your performance in Video Poker. So, you can stop blaming yourself for a "wrong decision". Smiley

For example, while playing "Jacks or better" you see these cards at start



you decide to hold 55 because this is the right move in terms of probability.



and then, say, you get another pair after the draw, and you win a bit, 2x payout, but you could also choose holding 458 of Spades, and then get 67 of Spades and win 75x with a Straight Flush. And what's going to happen is absolutely unpredictable.

Feeling a guilt would be the same as to blame yourself for not choosing to play with 5 lines here:

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September 29, 2021, 01:11:20 AM
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Hey dude, it is not about pvp poker but it is about Video Poker. Dont you know that they are different game? Should I give you some images or videos about these two games so you can see the differences? I think you need to search some information first about Video Poker and how it differs to Poker (pvp). Once you know how what is and how Video Poker works, I'm sure you will not say that you can do bluff in Video Poker.
I did the search awhile ago and I fucking double downed on the worng side, yeah I get it now, I am in the wrong in this one. I though it was like a poker but it's online. I didn't know this kind of game so I just assumed. And not that I have searched of it, I want to play that game.
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September 28, 2021, 11:22:49 PM
I believe the slot to be based on luck and does require players to get any skill to play it but on the second thought, it doesn't mean that players will not have to apply some form of skills or experience if the chances present themselves, after all, it all about the winning 🏅 .
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September 28, 2021, 05:55:21 PM
Blackjack and Poker are still mostly luck and require alot more attention not to make your luck worse, at least slots is consistent and easy to play.   Depends what you want, in both cases you want to play through the actual game first before going into bigger betting dont get greedy make sure you have an actual plan to proceed with.
   Someone said you cant walk away from slots a winner, which is so wrong you definitely can just make sure you dont wear out any good luck you do have.   Be reasonable and you walk away with a profit, I know because I've done that more then once but overall it is just a game and of course it has a cost to play.
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September 28, 2021, 05:37:18 PM
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Even if you are playing against other players, it does not mean that it will be easy to win.
Well, compare it to winning in slots, it's definitely much easier to win since poker is leaning towards being skill based rather than chance based which the slots are leaning more into.

Yeah. My experience is that if you are looking for actual long term profits, slots is the worst game to play.

Why? Because RTP is the lowest out of all games.

The game developers have to be paid one way or another and how do they usually do that? It's through huge house edges that are many times of blackjack or dice. And there is no "strategy" that you can follow to maximise returns either. Video poker is the way to go for this.
I cant see any differences with that Video poker because it isnt really actually poker but somewhat having that same vibe of slots.I agree that when it comes to odds or house edge then slots is on the top list.

Rewards and prizes might really be big but those are just good for some boost of interest which will result into playing and of course that means more profit or revenue into its owners.

Players are always be on disadvantage most of the time but if you are lucky enough then you could really make some decent profits or wins.
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September 28, 2021, 04:50:45 PM
Slots, whether played for fun or to make money, are arguably the simplest gambling option out there. It requires no strategy, no skills, and no time to practice. In essence, slots are simply a form of gambling, and they're generally easy and cheap ways to pass the time. This game is relatively easy to play, so it is one of the most popular gambling games in the world.

But to be fair, it’s not easy to win at slots. The odds are simply against you. And while you can sometimes win with very small bets, those wins are few and far between. So if your main goal is to make real money at gambling, you're probably better off at blackjack or poker, or any other casino game that requires skill and strategy.

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September 28, 2021, 04:47:01 PM
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Even if you are playing against other players, it does not mean that it will be easy to win.
Well, compare it to winning in slots, it's definitely much easier to win since poker is leaning towards being skill based rather than chance based which the slots are leaning more into.

Yeah. My experience is that if you are looking for actual long term profits, slots is the worst game to play.

Why? Because RTP is the lowest out of all games.

The game developers have to be paid one way or another and how do they usually do that? It's through huge house edges that are many times of blackjack or dice. And there is no "strategy" that you can follow to maximise returns either. Video poker is the way to go for this.
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September 28, 2021, 09:05:37 AM
However, video poker is kind of hard for novices to understand and can not be said to be user-friendly as its interfaces require some level of technicalities but slot is the first choice for most beginners as one doesn’t need to develop any skills before you can play slot.
I don't think it's that difficult to learn the game, it depends on the gambler preference as long as he/she is willing to learn the basics of a game it should only take a few minutes or so to get used to the rules.

I used to think poker was difficult but after playing a couple of rounds it eventually became a good learning experience. In terms of difficulty i'd say it's close to blackjack since it also relies on decision making.

First, you need to specify the poker game.
Poker is a generic term for several games, some easier than others.
A slot game can also look easy, but depending on the game there are also several variables and combinations involved that can also cause confusion in the gamer's mind. It's complicated to generalize that way.
As for video poker, the subject of the OP, I confess that I played very little. I don't like playing against the house, I prefer PvP.
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