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Originally Posted by bstillmatic
I think what your saying is you can make a handful of button errors and relatively minor mistakes but as long as you play your royal draws and deuces draws correctly thats what really counts and you can still be a profitable player playing like that? After a long losing session I get mad at myself by making a handful of minor errors despite playing all my royal and deuce draws correctly...am I nitpicking at myself too much? tks
Well, in terms of errors what's really important is, the expected return due to errors. You want to have this as high as possible. You can make actual errors 5% of the time, but if your return after errors is still 99.7% of optimal because most of your errors are minor, then you would be playing FPDW with a long-term return of 99.7% x 100.76% = 100.46%, which is still decent. But you make the comment of "button errors". If you are occasionally failing to hold a deuce because of sticky buttons, you really need to work on avoiding that at all costs. If you have never tested your hold accuracy on a computer, test it here:
http://wizardofodds.com/play/video-poker/
Play 500 hands or so, don't allow warnings or hints. After you play about 500 hands or so, look under the stats tab for "Accuracy (in value)" It really needs to be above 99.5% otherwise you'll be bleeding over 2/3rds of FPDW's edge to errors.