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Video Poker – The Importance Of Comps
June 17th, 2009 | 
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I have thoroughly covered both the psychology of comps and the way casinos figure the value of your play in my book Guerrilla Gambling: How to Beat the Casinos at Their Own Games! I have also discussed how to get more comps than your play actually warrants in that book. Suffice it to say that you should never play just to get comps. However, you should always take whatever comps your play warrants. For many astute gamblers, the combination of comps and play will equal long-term success. Always put your comp card in the machine when you play or give it into the change person to record your buy-in.
To give you some idea of the streaky nature of video poker and also how comps can help offset otherwise losing trips, the following is a day-by-day Las Vegas diary of mine that shows 28 straight days of playing Jacks-or-Better 9/6 video poker with 4,700 coins for the royal flush. Every morning I played the same good video-poker machine for $500 (five quarters per hand = 400 hands per day = 11,200 hands = $14,000 through the machine during the 28 day period ). When I was finished playing on a given day I would ask for a comp for breakfast. The amount of the comp shown on this chart is what I actually spent as opposed to what I theoretically could have spent. Since I don't make a pig of myself, I only ordered what I would have ordered had I paid for the meal myself.
Victory at Video Poker
Day Won Lost Comp Amount Total
1 $34 $14 - $20.00
2 $17.50 $21 + $38.50
3 $27.50 $18 + $45.50
4 $10 $16.82 + $6.82
5 $10 $14.86 + 4.86
6 $26 $8.45 - $17.55
7 $12 $18.45 + $30.45
8 $73 $8.45 - $64.55
9 $72.50 $14.86 - $57.64
10 $84 $14.75 + $98.75
11 $109 $8.45 - $100.55
12 $74.25 $18 - $56.25
13 $33 $8.45 + $41.45
14 $58.50 $21.35 + $79.85
15 $5 $8.45 + $13.45
16 $33 $18.45 + $51.45
17 $91.50 $8.45 - $83.05
18 $200 $18 - $182
19 $20 $18 - $2.00
20 $68 $8.45 - $59.55
21 $20 $21 + $41.00
22 $34 $8.45 - $25.55
23 $134 $14.25 + $148.25
24 $35 $8.45 + $33.45
25 $62 $14.86 + $76.86
26 $34.50 $8.45 - $26.05
27 $17.25 $21 + $38.25
28 $62.50 $8.45 - $54.05
Totals $538.75 $919.25 $390.60 + $10.10
Although I had no truly awesome days during this 28-day playing cycle (I never received a straight flush, for example, and never got close to a royal flush), the combination of comps and play netted me $10.10. Now, at first glance this $10.10 win might seem nothing to gloat about.. .but think again. A win is a win, after all. Had I not played video poker in this particular casino every morning, I would have had to pay $390.60 for my breakfasts over this period of time. Instead, the casino gave me $10.10 to eat for 28 days in their restaurant. Looked at that way—I received some bargain.
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