The casinos want you to love playing video poker because the more time you spend playing, the better the chances are the casino will beat you. The casinos don’t keep their doors open 24/7 because everyone is winning, it’s just the opposite. Most players don’t know how casinos operate and this is one reason they lose.
Living in Las Vegas I see what goes on in the casinos, the players allow the tactics of the casinos to beat them. The casinos leave nothing to chance, the video poker games are 6 to 10 times in favor of the casino, that’s pretty big odds. The casinos will only tell you part of the story, the parts that make you think you have a chance to win. You have to look at the things the casino doesn’t tell you about like hot and cold machine cycles.
If you want to win, then you’ll have to have a strategy for video poker that includes these cycles.