Powerful Profits From Video Poker [Paperback]

Victor Royer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Lyle Stuart; First Edition edition (October 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0818406631
• ISBN-13: 978-0818406638
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,480,943 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars buying this book is a waste of money, March 29, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Powerful Profits From Video Poker (Paperback)

This book is just plain awful. The reviewer from Gurnee, IL is absolutely correct in his appraisal! He was actually very kind to give it 2 stars because it borders on being an outright fraud.

I am an experienced and knowledgeable video poker player. I have studied video poker strategy in depth and have several useful books and other materials.

The reason that I purchased this book is because of its recent publication date as the books and materials that I have are 5 or 6 years old and do not cover many new games and variations of older games.

Unfortunately for me, this book was no help at all and would be totally worthless to anyone new to video poker as well as to experienced players like myself. Follow the advice of the Gurnee reviewer as to reliable authors.

This book is about 350 pages but that is due to the writer repeating the same material over and over in an effort to stretch it out and make it look substantial when it is not so at all. Sentence after sentence he makes the same statement with small variation and continues page after page. The par sheets which he claims are so valuable are of no practical use at all and account for about 30 pages. Other useless fillers are obsolete pay tables along with pictures of the machines.

This book is also full of errors such as contrasting 2 pay tables for a particular game when they are actually identical, probably due to a typo.

And here is a really good one: he states on page 266 that if you are dealt AA22 and draw one card that there are 6 cards in the deck available to give you a full house, namely 3 aces and 3 deuces!

He offers a "simple strategy" which is just plain idiotic. In order to play these games properly you need detailed strategies specific to each game and pay table.

The benefit of video poker is that you can play at or near a 100% payback rate and still enjoy the benefits that casinos bestow on their valued gambling customers. And you only need to play on quarter machines to get casino rate hotel rooms, free meals, assorted gifts, cash back, free coin coupons, and more. Play dollar machines and they will give you free rooms, gourmet meals, more cash back, and more and better gifts.

But to accomplish this you need to know not only which machines to play but also the correct detailed strategy specific to each machine that you play. Books such as this one that do not provide that information are of no value whatsoever to either new or experienced video poker players.

I will still keep looking for new material on this subject, but like the Gurnee reviewer I have not been able to find it so far.

Who do you think wrote the reviews that give this book 5 stars?

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Information is not reliable, January 21, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Powerful Profits From Video Poker (Paperback)

Unfortuately, this book follows a trend of Video Poker books. There's just not that much new in the knowledge of video poker that hasn't been written by Dan Paymar, Bob Dancer and others. Instead of trying to present the same information in a better manner, it chooses to conflict with well-established understandings of VP to pursue ill-fated "short-term" strategies that have no basis in the VP community. You are much better off with the standards than you are with this book or Singer's book.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful Profits-Video Poker, January 20, 2008

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A. Calabro (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Powerful Profits From Video Poker (Paperback)

I thought I knew a lot about video poker until I read Mr. Royer's Powerful Profits-Video Poker book. He gives an in depth discussion about what kind of machines to look for, what all the pay tables and percentages mean, and keys to winning consistently. A person who reads this book will be light years ahead of the average video poker player. I actually read parts of this book years later and it even made more sense after having played video poker in casinos using Mr. Royer's knowledge and strategies as outlined in his book. It is a must read for anyone wanting to become a consistent winner at video poker.