My wife and I left for the casino at 6:00 AM Easter Sunday morning. We’ve been so busy lately that we haven’t had the chance to play in several months. So we were excited to finally get out of the house to enjoy gambling together. She plays short video poker and I play short video keno.
The night before I used the Mystic Keno Charts to set up my plays for the different Four Card Keno spots. What I do is get on the computer and go to the Free Video Poker & Keno page where I play for a while and decide on my base numbers. Then I use the charts to reduce the different base numbers to the individual spots. I usually plan numbers for the 4, 5, 6 and 7 spots. I copy the numbers to my cell phone and I’m all set.
As I said, we were particularly excited on this particular morning. My wife’s great mood brought her good luck. She was doing quite well with her double double bonus video poker. She was hitting her four of a kinds right on time and was hardly putting any money into her machine. But I wasn’t doing so good at first. I was playing my 5 spot numbers and nothing was falling my way. But I knew I just had to hold out until it did.
Finally, after 45 minutes or so (and reloading the video keno machine several times) things began to change. I picked up my first 5 spot on card B and about 20 minutes later I hit a double on B and C ( I love those Mystic Keno Charts!). So now I’m feeling pretty good and just played freely with my winnings and having fun. But before I knew it, we only had 30 minutes left in our session.
So I switched to my 7 spot numbers. And it started. Bam – a double 5 out of seven. Then another. Bam a 6 out of seven. It was happening. I could feel it. Bam – another 5 out of 7 and then another double. I just knew that 7 spot was just about ready to pop.
Then my wife looked over at me and pointed to her watch. That, of course, meant that it was time to go. But no, I thought. My 7 spot was coming. Any minuet. She cashed out and that’s when I knew it was over. And I was doing so good!
Our maximum session time is three hours and we had reached it. That’s the way we play. Win, lose or draw. It was exciting to see all the 5 out of sevens and the double hits. And the two 6 out of sevens was just crazy. But the fact is that I was no closer to hitting the seven spot than I was on the first game. I could have played on all day and never hit it. And if I wasn’t hitting anything at all, I could have argued that a big payout was ‘due.’
Even the most experienced Keno players can fall victim to the Gambler’s Fallacy. We can forget that each game is what mathematicians call an independent trial. We call it the RNG. Completely random.
Even still, on the way home, I found myself thinking that the 7 spot was just about ready to pop.
Until next time,
May the good news be yours,
TMG
There is still nothing wrong with coming around and hitting 5s and getting multiple other nibbles using the mystic gamblers tactics. As you know, when machines get hot we always think that they will hit. As you also know there are no guarantees. (7/7 is 1-41,000/4 cards = 1 in 10,250). Even though the odds are as good as a royal (divided by the 4 cards) it could take on average as long as 20 hours (on average based on probability and playing roughly 500 pushes an hour) to hit even one 7 spot. As a matter of fact its likely (as a reasonable guess) that 70-90 out of 100 times the seven will not come in (based on the fact that regardless of how “hot” the machine is that every push is random as well as the law of random probability). I will say this though. Though there is no proven fact, it is my experience that when you keep getting hits and you continue to see the board clumping (seeing combined 3-4 spots in one partial quadrant creating clumps of 8-12 numbers in a compact area), I have gotten my biggest hits seeing this (as opposed to where the majority of plays are more scattered instead of the majority of the pushes having clumps..
You still did fine! You also had some excitement, experienced the benefits of the mystic smart charts, and as a bonus your wife was tagging the DDB poker! CONGRATS!!!
Kind Regards
Ken