The Strategies and Tactics of Advantage Play
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Köp båda 2 för 462 krDan Paymar was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. Following four years at
Michigan Tech, where he first started programming a computer in 1957, he
then spent a muggy summer in Cleveland, Ohio, maintaining several Bendix
G-15 computers before transferring to Los Angeles to begin a career in logic
design.
If you wonder why you've never heard of a Bendix computer, it's because the
computer division was bought out by Control Data in 1963. This gave Dan
the opportunity to become one of the first ever to own a "personal" computer
- he bought a G-15 from the old stock that Control Data didn't want.
This was a refrigerator-size monster that consumed about four kilowatts, yet
today's $50 programmable pocket calculators could run circles around it; at
the time, however, it represented a giant step up from the mechanical desk
calculators.
Dan stayed with Control Data four more years then joined Encyclopdia
Britannica in 1967 to develop a text editing system. Unfortunately, technology
hadn't caught up with fantasy so the project never got off the ground. (Note
that this was many years before laser printers and the desktop publishing
revolution.)
Next, he joined two other engineers to start Educational Data Systems and
shifted back to programming to write a BASIC language interpreter and
disk operating system for the Data General Nova computer to handle up to
sixteen users. As far as we know, this was the first time-sharing system to run
on a minicomputer.
Educational Data Systems became Point 4 Data Corporation when the
company began manufacturing its own computers. Meanwhile, Dan
developed an accessory for the Apple-II computer, which he sold by mail
and through retail stores. Realizing that the mail order business didn't have
to tie him down, he and his family moved to Durango, Colorado, in 1980.
In 1988 he returned to California to manage a computer repair store, but
that business was mortally wounded by the government's "protective" import
surtax on memory chips, so he chose to indulge in semi-retirement, became a
poker dealer, and moved to Las Vegas.
Video Poker - Optimum Play 217
That's where his interest in video poker began. His first endeavor was to survey
the casinos and publish a directory of favorable video poker opportunities.
Not satisfied with the strategies then available, he put his computer experience
to use, analyzed the games, and published his results in the predecessor to this
book, Video Poker - Precision Play. The book evolved and expanded, going
through many revisions as new games began to appear and questions about
how to play them arose. Now out of print, the tenth edition was the last
version before this book.
Dan retired to Farmington, New Mexico, in 2004, but he and his wife still
go to Las Vegas about three times a year to visit with old friends and play
video poker. His primary interest is continuing development of his analysis
and training software while sharing his knowledge and information with
others through his various ...