Beatable and playable are 2 very very different animals.
A game isn't good because:
- It has a low HE
- It has deep penetration
- It has no heat
- It has 400 rounds per hour
- You can get a huge spread
- You can do higher edge stuff (ie: not counting)
- Or any other reason [alone].
A game is good due to a combination of these factors. It matters what edge you as a player can get, does not matter what the base house edge.
Find me a game with all the worst rules possible, but if you let me see the dealer's hole card or the next card....I'm going to play. Find me a game with a 0.1% HE, dealt to 95%, a million hands an hour....but if I can't do any index plays and I can't jump my bet at all....I ain't playing.
If you play VP.....find me a game with a 5% HE but gives me 15% of my action back in FP [mail offers], I'm probably gonna be playing it. If you find me a 0.005% HE game, no slot points, no mail, no comps.....I don't care, I ain't playing! Yes I will play a 5% house edge VP game, but I don't care about the dang HE....I care about MY edge [which would be 10% in that case]. I wouldn't play a 0.005% house edge VP game if there's no incentive to play.
It's not the house edge that matters....it's YOUR EDGE that matters.
"Everyone wants to be rich, but nobody wants to work for it." -Ryan Howard [The Office]
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