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buy this book if you are interested in video poker and even the software you can find by the same title but save your money and don,t buy the guide.
It is a guide for selecting the best machines to play based on the payoff schedule. The book is a compilation of the different payoff tables for each machine. The Frugal Guide does not have any information on the best strategy (how to play) the different machines. The Frugal Video Poker scouting guide is not a guide for playing video poker. There is no strategy on how to play the different video poker machines.
This handy little guide replaces all of that. I used to print volumes of paper to try to carry this information with me to the casinos.
It verifies that casinos have tweaked video poker machines to make the odds worse. While the book is pricey for its length, the idea is interesting.
I'd even started building the tables myself from numerous books on the subject of Video Poker. This book is nearly perfect.
My only complaint is the spiral-bound book is a smidge long for the average man's pocket and has a lame textual style for the little prose it contains that uses a sailor-schtick which I found a bit inappropriate. It has numerous precentages for all (I haven't found one missing yet) each of the popular games that you find in casinos these days with various permutations of their paytables - sadly these are mostly NOT to the players advantage, but the authors' can't be faulted for that.
Finally - just the book I've been waiting for. when I really needed it.
However, you don't buy this for the prose - you buy it for the NUMBERS and the numbers are just fine. As long as I've been playing video poker, I've yearned for handy listing of the percent payback for the various games and paytables associated with them.
My efforts were never satisfactory because I never seemed to have the value for the machine I was standing in front of at the time - i.e.
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