On a related note, here is the Wizard's description of how he took some random slot results (212 spins) and figured out the game with them:
http://wizardofodds.com/games/slots/jackpot-party/
You can apply the same concept to video poker, there are 52 possible first cards, within 52 to 300 spins or so you should see all of them in that position at least once. The second spot has 51 cards, and so on. Each spot is supposed to be independent, with the one exception that no card should repeat, the deck is not infinite but is depleted by each draw. As a simple example, here are my one card draws from a deck of the five broadway cards:
KQKJQKQJAAKJT
13 draws: 2A, 4K, 3Q, 3J, 1T
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "nightoftheiguana2000" <nightoftheiguana2000@...> wrote:
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> This is just a minor point, but you could flip a coin (many times, of course) to determine if it was exactly balanced, and people have done just this, and it turns out most coins are not balanced. And (hopefully) Nevada Gaming Regulators do the equivalent when they test machines for randomness. Or do they just outsource the job to China?
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/56411/how-to-test-randomness-case-in-point-shuffling
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> The wikipedia article:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_flipping
> says most people coin flip with biases in the range of ".495 or .503".
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@> wrote:
> > It would be like flipping two coins and trying to infer from the results which one had more heads on it. Look at the coins, make sure they have both heads and a tails for sides, but for goodness sake don't flip them and record the results to learn anything more.
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