Lone Locust of the Apocalypse wrote:
>
> 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...)
I posted a description of this same problem on vpFREE several
years ago. I searched but cannot find it now... it was posted
under a different Yahoo ID.
You can reproduce this problem with ease on old IGT machines.
Simply press and hold one of the "hold" buttons then press
and release an adjacent "hold" button. You'll see the "hold"
indicator toggle off/on on the first card held as you
repeatedly press/release the second "hold" button.
On those older IGT machines you could not safely have more
than one "hold" button pressed otherwise the results were
unpredictable or at least unexpected. The newer machines
operate correctly with multiple buttons pressed simultaneously.
The modern IGT's are great for playing two machines at once!
G'luck all,
Gamb00ler
