I fell for you. Last year, for me, got me 0 (zero) royals in 240,000 games at dollar play. I haven't figured my win loss yet. I'm guessing it's about (18 to to 20) in the box. I play mostly DDB. $5000 free play and $1000 cash. Also, picked up various free play coupons from $100 - $500 which helps. Better, I won a $5000 free play and $1000 cash on free tournaments in 2011. I can always afford to play free tournaments. This will be my worst year since 2008. It ain't no fun.
Cheers, Jeep
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "carter561@..." <carter561@...> wrote:
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> I just want to throw out my exceptionally lousy stats for the last year, perhaps to see if anyone can top them, perhaps just to let the newbies see just how long the streaks can get...
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> I hit my first $5 royal of the year last Saturday. The previous one was December 10, 2010. Since I don't plan to play much more this year, I'm closing the books, considering that interval a year, and reporting the stats now.
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> Between Dec 10, 2010 and Dec 17, 2011, I played 548,758 hands with a total of 3 royals. I had a $1 royal on May 7, a $2 royal May 8 and a $5 royal on Dec 17. That is an average of 182,919 hands per royal, playing predominantly Jacks or Better. Given that number of hands, one might expect over 13 royals.
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> In previous years, my stats have looked more normal. From the point that I started playing standard games instead of progressives, through the end of 2010, I had 115 royals in 4,949,418 hands for an average of 43,038 hands per royal. Since there was a period when most of my play was Deuces Wild, this average is not too far above my expectations.
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> As far as droughts go, until this year, I've had only had two 5-cycle droughts before, both in 2007. The first was 205,341 hands; the second was 236,754 hands. This year I had one interval of 235,814 hands and one (the one that just terminated) of 288,114 hands.
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> In terms of video poker, it has truly been a miserable year for me. Can anyone top over half a million hands with only 3 royals?
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> * I have something of a bookkeeping technicality to add: I only list taxable royals for games of 1-9 lines in my royal log. Those are the royals that really impact my bankroll. A nickel royal on a 100-play machine ($200) is just another hand in my opinion, so I segregate what I call n-play games to a different universe. For this year, I have played 354,764 hands of n-play VP with 8 royals. That's an average of 44,346 hands per royal. This is close enough to expectations to consider normal, but of course these payouts did nothing to repair the bankroll damage done by months of losses on substantial $5, $10 and $25 play without royals.
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> ** I played quite a bit less video poker this year than I have in the past. I hope next year affords the opportunity to play more.
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