Impossible. In video poker, the deck is 'shuffled' for each new hand.
What he could have been doing is watching FREQUENCY. The machines take, and take, and take, but they do pay out. It happens in a pattern that would be indiscernible to most of us. If you could predict that frequency, you could wager more and then you might come out ahead. Maybe he had a knack for it.
Most of the time, if you pay in a bunch, you win back some. The longer you play, the better chance of winning something, but in the long run you spend more than you win.
If it was the other way around, there would be no casinos.
Now maybe I don’t know a large number of wealthy people - but I do know some.
I can’t think of one instance when one of them said outright “I’m wealthy” or “we’re wealthy people”.
Eric just strikes me as trying TOO hard to convince everyone.