Million Dollar Video Poker

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Summary: The Master at Video Poker tells his life story!!
Review: Bob Dancer is as good as it gets in the Video Poker world. He knows math and he explains Video Poker very well. This book is a good introduction to the world of professional Video Poker play. It is a book that lays the truth bare about playing for a living in Las Vegas.

Bob Dancer is the best there is today. His book chronicles his rise to Video Poker Czar!

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Summary: Life in Las Vegas
Review: Bob Dancer tells the story of his exciting 7-year ride playing video poker, beginning with a modest bankroll and ultimately leading to a million dollar win over the casinos. Along the way he relates some of the most fascinating and revealing anecdotes of any gambler to date. In the process the intelligence, psychology and strategies essential to a successful player are disclosed.

The book leaves little doubt about luck's keen role in conquest over the casinos. But disciplined play is vividly illustrated by Dancer to be far more crucial. He demonstrates that discipline maximizes opportunities for luck to play out in the gamblers' favor.

While focused on Dancer's video poker experience, any gambler will find food for thought applicable to their game. For that matter, even a reader with a passing gaming interest will find it a very lucid, compelling and entertaining read.

The book is quite possibly the most insightful book on the subject of gambling that anyone who has ever stepped foot into a casino, or who contemplates doing so, will pick up. It isn't one to overlook.

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Summary: A tale of determination
Review: Bob Dancer tells the story of his exciting 7-year ride playing video poker, beginning with a modest bankroll and ultimately leading to a million dollar win over the casinos. Along the way he relates some of the most fascinating and revealing anecdotes of any gambler to date. In the process the intelligence, psychology and strategies essential to a successful player are disclosed.

The book leaves little doubt about luck's keen role in conquest over the casinos. But disciplined play is vividly illustrated by Dancer to be far more crucial. He demonstrates that discipline maximizes opportunities for luck to play out in the gamblers' favor.

While focused on Dancer's video poker experience, any gambler will find food for thought applicable to their game. For that matter, even a reader with a passing gaming interest will find it a very lucid, compelling and entertaining read.

The book is quite possibly the most insightful book on the subject of gambling that anyone who has ever stepped foot into a casino, or who contemplates doing so, will pick up. It isn't one to overlook.

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Summary: Good Information; No Secrets
Review: Bob Dancer's Million Dollar Video Poker is an excellent description of the life and goals of a successful advantage video poker player. I'm considering giving it to some of my relatives to help them understand the lifestyle, risks, and possible gains of playing beatable VP machines.

However, if you're looking for a book that describes how to beat the VP machines (strategies, etc.), this isn't going to help you out very much. You'd be better off reading Bob Dancer's Winners Guides, which he's gradually publishing for each VP game. While Dancer includes some tips and information in Million Dollar Video Poker, he basically only says as much as he needs to in order to tell his story to someone who might not know anything about video poker.

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Summary: Excellent biography; not an instruction manual
Review: Bob Dancer's Million Dollar Video Poker is an excellent description of the life and goals of a successful advantage video poker player. I'm considering giving it to some of my relatives to help them understand the lifestyle, risks, and possible gains of playing beatable VP machines.

However, if you're looking for a book that describes how to beat the VP machines (strategies, etc.), this isn't going to help you out very much. You'd be better off reading Bob Dancer's Winners Guides, which he's gradually publishing for each VP game. While Dancer includes some tips and information in Million Dollar Video Poker, he basically only says as much as he needs to in order to tell his story to someone who might not know anything about video poker.

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Summary: If you're learning to play not the book for you
Review: I thought this was going to be a tutorial. It was more of the story of a professional gambler and how he got lucky. It was an interesting read if you can get through the narcissitic "I'm the greatest parts"

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Summary: If you're learning to play not the book for you
Review: I thought this was going to be a tutorial. It was more of the story of a professional gambler and how he got lucky. It was an interesting read if you can get through the narcissitic "I'm the greatest parts"

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Summary: Don't Be Confused; This Is Not A "How To" Guide!!
Review: Many would-be video poker players, looking for the perfect guide that will teach them how to play better, will consider Bob Dancer's book, Million Dollar Video Poker. However, this is not a "how to" book, this is a "how I did it" book. In other words, a loose biography and chronicle of how Bob Dancer built a small starting bankroll into over a million dollars in the space of a few years. Not coincedently, he also found a second career as a writer, teacher, and expert on the subject of this comparatively new casino game; the income from these peripheral endeavors supplements his gambling bankroll nicely during lean times. The prospective video poker player should obtain this book ASAP, for it contains valuable insights into money management, dedication, persistence, and the use of advanced math skills to successfully calculate whether a particular game is beatable or not by considering the perks from various casino promotions (such as double points on a royal flush), calculated in with the machine's basic win percentage when played perfectly. Readers of Dancer's columns in Casino Player and Strictly Slots magazines will also love reading the story of his unique and quite wonderful courtship of wife Shirley, a beautiful lady and a perfect partner to boot. One note of caution: Dancer is not shy to take advantage of a casino's mistakes, from an incorrectly programmed machine to overly generous change girls; players who take a very black and white view of ethics will not benefit from this book. Million Dollar Video Poker is best purchased in conjunction with one of Bob's own video poker software tutorials, available from several internet sites including www.bobdancer.com. Get these valuable casino goodies today, and start building your own million dollar bankroll right away.

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Summary: A Gambling Success Story Well Told
Review: Other reviewers have commented correctly that this is not another how-to book about playing video poker perfectly. Bob Dancer and others already have written those books. This new one offers: (1) a surprisingly revealing account of Dancer's rags-to-riches life over the past 20 years; and (2) his advice about preserving one's bankroll and soul while gambling to earn a living. Video poker happens to be the venue because that is Dancer's game of choice. But anyone who aspires to being a winning gambler should read this book. In addition, the book is a fun read. The Dancers' climactic $1,000,000 win is merely the happy ending of an adventure that often threatened to end badly.

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Summary: If you're learning to play not the book for you
Review: Well written in a chronological diary style, this book describes the tedious life of the professional video poker player. Yeah, Dancer gradually works his bankroll into six figures and stays at the MGM Mansion, but his "job" is to play 15000 hands of VP per week and calculate the payback of a casino's latest coupon deal to the hundredth of a percent. If you want to be a pro gambler, read this book! Dancer pretends to be a wonderful, ethical guy, but he spends his days (nights) looking for VP machines programmed incorrectly to pay a high cashback rate. He's like the guy who checks pay-phone coin returns. Dancer is a smart guy, but he doesn't contribute as much to society as he wants you to believe. Still, this is a unique look at full-time casino action.