On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Sylvia wrote:
> A few years ago I was playing a $5 BP Spinpoker, I think 5 lines, and
> got dealt 3 A's. I proceeded to quickly hold the 3 and press draw. I
> watched in horror as one of the Aces "disappeared" and the 4th came up.
I've had this happen to me from time to time as well. The pattern seems
to be that if you hit, say, 3 buttons really quickly in a row, once in a
blue moon hitting the 3rd one causes one of the first 2 to un-hold. My
theory is that if the timing is exactly wrong, it gets confused about
which button generated a button-down or button-up event and applies it to
the wrong button in addition to the correct one, or something like that
(but this is pure speculation, I have no knowledge of the software or
hardware internals, and since it happens rarely, it's hard to test the
theory...)
While technically this could be considered a malfunction or design defect,
practically speaking whether you can convince them to roll it back will
probably depend on which attendant/supervisor you get and how much they
like you and whether you're perceived as someone who shoots angles a lot.
Bottom line: It doesn't matter if it's the machine's fault or yours,
whether you recognized the correct hold or even pressed the correct
buttons. You don't get credit for any of that. The ONLY thing that
counts are which cards have the 'hold' label when you press the Draw
button.
Sadly, even knowing this, I still make speed-induced errors :-(
