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Video Poker-Optimum Play | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Paymar
Publisher: Conjelco
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 714382
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 199
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5
ISBN: 1886070113
Dewey Decimal Number: 795
EAN: 9781886070110
ASIN: 1886070113
Publication Date: August 1, 1998
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Condition: A used ex-library copy. Library markings. Pages are somewhat worn. Cover worn with some creases. Worn edges and corners. Binding solid and tight. Purchasing this item supports the Sno-Isle Libraries Foundation.
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Book Description
A major expansion of Dans Video PokerPrecision Play which it replaces. A guide to video poker machines and the strategies necessary to beat them. Concentrates on Jacks-or-Better, Deuces Wild, Jokers Wild, and variations. Aimed at the recreational player who wants to become a serious or semi-pro player. Strategies are concise and easy to learn.
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 Video Poker:Optimum Play January 31, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was very impressed with the amount of good info packed into this book.
Excellent guide for the player January 13, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Paymar's book is pretty much the definitive handbook for video poker play today. He discusses every factor involved in beating theoretically beatable games, and at least stretching your dollars and getting the most out of your play in the rest.
Dan disects each of the most popular games in detail, as well as multiple variations of each, and some of the older machines you might still run across. Each is subjected to computer payback and play analysis, and this runs to quite some length (and strictly speaking is not necessary reading). He streamlines all of this information into shorter hand flowcharts on how to play each hand to maximum potential, something which comes as quite a relief after going through his exhaustive and detailed optimum play discussion.
Further, he delves into just what the stats mean. If a game is technically beatable over the long run, what does that tell the player? Well, it means frankly a full-time career of playing video poker, all day every day for months, at almost unbelieveable speed and rapidity and of course with perfect unerring accuracy. It is not easy or simple, and I can't even imagine that it would be fun. Moreover, one's potential edge in even the very best game, with the best payback, is so microscopic, that the fluctuations in the player's bankroll, even with only slight statistical blips, are huge. Don't even think of playing full time at a quarter machine with less than $50,000 to start. His advice in this area is depressing but honest and frankly about the most important stuff in the book.
If the only thing this book does is to show the reader how to shop for a 'good' game and refuse to play short-pay ripoff games, it will be well worth the money. If your play improves as well, that's a bonus. Regular video poker players will benefit by reading this book.
A solid title worthy of any video poker player's consideration January 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I strongly suggest any fledgling video poker player read this manual to learn the basics of the odds and strategies necessary to conquer the casino video poker machines. An excellent basic, introductory text, Paymar also sells video poker training software and strategy cards that are a must for the budding or even serious player. I contribute much of my success at the game to the precepts in this book.
 Mastering Video Poker is not easy ! March 2, 2005
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book. It details the steps necessary to become an expert player, a professional player of Video Poker.
Optimal play is NOT perfect play. Mastering a trade is not easy. Discipline and practice are the watch words of all good Video Poker players.
 Book has good info but tough read. March 24, 2004
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
The book has really good information. The problem is that is painfully boring to slog through. I have noticed an improvement in my VP playing. I am playing longer and not losing as much still in search of that magical royal.It took me over 2 weeks to get through this book and it is only 200 pages.
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