[vpFREE] Video Poker ‘Hackers’ Cleared of Federal Charges

Video Poker 'Hackers' Cleared of Federal Charges

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/11/video-poker-case/


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[vpFREE] RE: M Resort - new slot card system?

 

I just looked at their site and saw this:


"Video Poker players will enjoy payouts of up to 100% return and the best progressives."



---In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, <gamb00ler@...> wrote:

I went to their web site looking for the # of points required for free buffet and then wandered around a bit.  I followed this link:

and was surprised to see new cards with details of points required to achieve each level but no details about rewards.

G'luck all,
Gamb00ler

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[vpFREE] Luxor Question

 

Hi,

I'll be in LV for 3 nights this coming weekend.

Was wondering if the VPFree2 database was still accurate ? In particular it lists $1 8/5 BP single line play as being located in several banks. When last in LV this past summer I passed through the Luxor.The casino floor was undergoing renovation and I didn't locate several banks; only a group of about 3 machines.

Anyone have the latest info ?

Thanks,

Larry F.

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[vpFREE] M Resort - new slot card system?

 

I went to their web site looking for the # of points required for free buffet and then wandered around a bit.  I followed this link:


and was surprised to see new cards with details of points required to achieve each level but no details about rewards.

G'luck all,
Gamb00ler

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[vpFREE] Crystal Casino in Nassau

 

Anyone have any recent info on VP at the Crystal Casino?  Also, do they have a Poker Room?

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Re: [vpFREE] Digest Number 8434

 

A related question I have always puzzled about.  Does two people playing out of a common bankroll change the risk of return calculation?
 
Thanks for the help.  We play a lot of Pick'Em also, and we would like to understand the bankroll impact of moving from quarters to dollars.

From: "vpFREE@yahoogroups.com" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2013 8:28 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] Digest Number 8434

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Digest #8434

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Wed Nov 6, 2013 8:06 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"VP Hearts" vphearts

Hello,
I might be interested in this coupon. Where us the Quad? Is that the
newly reopened Lady Luck? Are there restrictions for weekends?
VP hearts
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 8:10 PM, Pat <kypat@aol.com> wrote:

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> I have 2 coupons for 2 free nights at The Quad good through Dec 26th.
> Email me if you want one or both. Kypat@aol.com
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Nov 5, 2013, at 1:55 PM, kypat@aol.com wrote:
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> I have 2 coupons each good for 2 free nights at The Quad through December
> 26th if anyone wants one or both, email me. Pat kypat@aol.com
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Wed Nov 6, 2013 8:28 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Bob Veit" bobve40

Strongly recommend against renting from Fox. Rented a number of times from them because of price. I pick up in Vegas, visit my brother in California and return to LAX. Last trip I returned to Lax & walked the car with service attendant who said everything was fine and it was. We had only an hour to get on flight so when I went to return counter I told agent I was in hurry. She said I had to fill out accident report. I told her car was fine, but she said attendant marked damage. I asked to see car and was told I couldn't as they had put it away. As flight time was now less than an hour I filled out accident report and noted that there was no damage to car and rushed to make our flight. Four months later I received a call from my insurance company saying they had received a claim from Fox for $2000 in damages. My agent said picture showed major damage so I asked to see picture. When he sent it to me it showed major damage to the front end of the two door, blue Dodge Challenger. I said that was nice, but I had rented a four door black Challenger. He returned claim to Fox denying payment. Six month goes by and surprise he gets another claim from Fox ($1200 this time) with picture of black four door Challenger. They said they were going to pay the claim since it wasn't a chargeable claim and wouldn't affect my rate. I told him it was a total rip off as I had walked the car and there was definitely no damage. He said they could contest it, but I would have to appear in court in California to give my story and he felt I should just let it go.
Fox got the money from my insurance company, but they will never get anymore from me or anyone else I can steer away from them.

Wed Nov 6, 2013 9:31 pm (PST) . Posted by:

tringlomane

For the infinite RoR, a powerful formula is here and one can use a spreadsheet to solve it:


http://www.blackjac kforumonline. com/content/ VPRoR.htm http://www.blackjac kforumonline. com/content/ VPRoR.htm



Using this formula you get the following results for games at the dollar level ($5/hand):


50% RoR: $33,650
25% RoR: $67,300
10% RoR: $111,775

Thu Nov 7, 2013 3:39 am (PST) . Posted by:

cmayhem2001

I believe Wolf Video Poker handles PE ror calcs, but you need excel. Online, I think Cindy Liu's vp bankroll tool handled PE. Last I heard it was being kept by the Wizard, but I haven't seen it in years. I liked that tool.


C





Thu Nov 7, 2013 4:06 am (PST) . Posted by:

dunbar_dra

Dunbar's Risk Analyzer for Video Poker will do RoR calcs for Pick'em. You can include the slight payoff variation in your local version as well as the cashback. DRA-VP will do both longterm and short-term RoR calcs.


In fact, Pick'em was the reason I created DRA-VP in the first place. I wanted to know how much money I needed to bring with me on a weekend trip to Mohegan Sun. I knew from the jazbo/sorokin formula how much money I'd need to play Pick'em indefinitely, but how much did I need if I wanted to play the game for 16 hours? I created an Excel sheet to get the answer, and then thought others might find it useful, too.


--Dunbar


---In vpfree@yahoogroups. com, <eric_vp1991@ ...> wrote:

Greetings from Southeastern Wisconsin. In my local casino, there is a bank of $1 near full pay (1195 instead of 1199 for a straight flush) Pick 'em Poker returning 99.9510% with a variance of 14.995645 and a 0.125% cash back slot club. All things considered, it should be a positive EV game 24/7.

Here's my question: what is the risk of ruin at 50%, 25%, 10% etc.? I cannot find a RoR calculator for Pick 'em Poker anywhere online.

If anyone has any idea on where to find one or has the drive to make one, I think that would help the community immensely.

Thanks
-Eric

Thu Nov 7, 2013 5:28 am (PST) . Posted by:

johnnyzee48127

Eric,

You should purchase DRA, Dunbar's Risk Analyzer program. I think it is available through LVA and gambler' s book club. It's worth many times the $20 price. It will answer all of your questions about the game in question.

PE is a funny game. Even though the long test variance is fairly low, you can lose a ton on money between quads ( about every 2300 hands). Dunbar's program will show you that you should not give up the day job for this play.

Also, the 99.9531% is for the game with 1199 SF. With an 1195 SF, the return is 99.9510%. Don't worry too much about the 0.0021% difference.


---In vpFREE@yahoogroups. com, <eric_vp1991@ ...> wrote:

... there is a bank of $1 near full pay (1195 instead of 1199 for a straight flush) Pick 'em Poker returning 99.9510% with a variance of 14.995645 and a 0.125% cash back slot club. All things considered, it should be a positive EV game 24/7.



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Re: [vpFREE] Digest Number 8430

 

I got a dealt sequential SF on my last LV trip.  Anyone know the odds for that offhand?

From: "vpFREE@yahoogroups.com" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 8:14 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] Digest Number 8430

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Digest #8430
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Re: Bad News in NOLA by "DavidL" slutoo
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Re: Bad News in NOLA by "gene scheel" clevgs
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Re: Bad News in NOLA by cmayhem2001
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NCL certificates by "Misscraps" misscraps

Messages

Mon Nov 4, 2013 6:26 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"ken orgera" rnoek

Congratulations! What a great hand. I have never had a dealt royal but 4 dealt straight flushes.


To: vpFREE@yahoogroups. com
From: neocacher@gmail. com
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 17:25:28 -0800
Subject: [vpFREE] RE: Today I was dealt a Sequential Royal Flush!

Ooops. Failed to mention Progressive was at $545.15.

---In vpfree@yahoogroups. com, <neocacher@ ...> wrote:

Too bad it was only in nickels! However it was a Progressive with 3x points .5% slot club. The EV was 100.3% today, that is why I was playing it. Dealt AKQJ10 hearts.

This is the one of the only 100+% opportunities in Deadwood, SD. Odds are 77,968,800 to one. But you already knew that!

Truly a once in a lifetime event for me, I am sure.

Mon Nov 4, 2013 7:34 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"DavidL" slutoo

My wife and I took two friends on the Jewel out of NOL the prior week (Oct 20-27) on a fully paid cruise sponsored by the Paris Casino in LV. It was hosted by Caesars NCL full time cruise consultant/host Josh Cazer, David Hoenemeyer the President of Bally's/ Paris/Planet Hollywood Jim Korona VP Casino Marketing and Exec host at Paris Rudy Paredes. The whole thing was done first class. They allowed and encouraged everyone who had two cruises coming to bring another couple or friends with them also free (no hiding it). They picked up everything but the tips (yes including taxes and port fees), hosted a slot tourney for our group, specialty Steak house dinners with the execs, rooms and trans in NOL. We've gone on a lot of casino cruises with MGM, Palms, Cosmo as well as Caesars and this was as good as the Players Travel cruises through the other places.

We really enjoyed Harrah's NOL a few days before the cruise as it is one of the few CET casino's with 9/6 JOB and 8/5 Bonus and the slots we still like. The Jewel was very nice, especially if you are someone who doesn't like the new 4,000 passenger class of RCL & NCL ships. (We don't mind, this Saturday we are going on the Epic (for our 10th time) with the Cosmopolitan casino group.

One bitter sweet thing was they can now open the casino on the Jewel immediately upon leaving NOL and keep it open all night of the return even though you are not in international waters for 8 hours. They now have a special exemption. The bad side of that is the payouts on the ship are the same as all ships, which is terrible, so you will loose big on the ship if you gamble a lot.

I sure do hope they don't downgrade the remaining good VP and slots in NOL.

Dave

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups. com, <chandler_ re@...> wrote:
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> That's different. Usually when a casino is fixing a big crap sandwich they tell you it's going to taste great. So how was the Jewel, Coach? I don't do many cruises, but I have plans for NO and the Jewel this spring.
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> Chandler
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> ---In vpFREE@yahoogroups. com, <vpfree@yahoogroups. com> wrote:
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> Hi Gang:
> Friends just returned from a stay at Harrah's New Orleans (and a cruise aboard the NCL Jewel) and have told us that their host in NOLA had some distressing news for them. The host couldn't go into details, but she told them that there are some "big changes" coming after the first of the year and they will greatly affect video poker.
> All she could say about the proposed changes was that "you will not like them!"
> Hedy and I will be sailing out of NOLA in January so I guess we'll get a first-hand look at whatever changes Harrah's makes.
> Regards,
> CoachVee & Hedy
>

Mon Nov 4, 2013 9:02 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"gene scheel" clevgs

I just returned from NOLA and a cruise on the Jewel,might have the worst casino I've ever been in. The food was good and bad,breakfast at the BLUE LAGOON WAS PRETTY GOOD AND THE FISH AND CHIPS WAS GOOD. THE SHIP HAD MORE MOVEMENT THAN ANY OTHER LARGE SHIP IVE BEEN ON,DIDNT BOTHER ME BUT OTHERS WERE.

But seeing as how it was a free cruise except for port charges and taxes I would go again and most likely will as Laughlin is giving away more cruises next month plus Harrahs let me hit a royal on my last day.



GENE SCHEEL
SUNDANCE SPORTS







Tue Nov 5, 2013 6:11 am (PST) . Posted by:

cmayhem2001

Thanks for your response, Dave. It has been years since I devoted much action to video poker until recently, but I remember playing NO Harrah's. These days I consider it something of a sin to waste time in NO gambling. Rather be filling my face with char broiled oysters and crusty bread or seeing a good band.

A few questions about the Jewel... Were you able to draw cash from your ship account which would later be reflected as a regular charge on your credit card?

There's usually not much for me to do on a ship's casino, so I tend to pass time with their tournaments and poker game. I assume they had these? Dealer or electronic table? Rake? It's usually huge.

Good on board entertainment? Good or bad experiences in ports?

Chandler




---In vpfree@yahoogroups. com, <slutoo@. ..> wrote:



One bitter sweet thing was they can now open the casino on the Jewel immediately upon leaving NOL and keep it open all night of the return even though you are not in international waters for 8 hours. They now have a special exemption. The bad side of that is the payouts on the ship are the same as all ships, which is terrible, so you will loose big on the ship if you gamble a lot.

I sure do hope they don't downgrade the remaining good VP and slots in NOL.

Dave



--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups. com mailto:vpFREE@yahoogroups. com, <chandler_ re@...> wrote:
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> That's different. Usually when a casino is fixing a big crap sandwich they tell you it's going to taste great. So how was the Jewel, Coach? I don't do many cruises, but I have plans for NO and the Jewel this spring.
>
>
> Chandler
>
>
>
> ---In vpFREE@yahoogroups. com mailto:vpFREE@yahoogroups. com, <vpfree@yahoogroups. com mailto:vpfree@yahoogroups. com> wrote:
>
> Hi Gang:
> Friends just returned from a stay at Harrah's New Orleans (and a cruise aboard the NCL Jewel) and have told us that their host in NOLA had some distressing news for them. The host couldn't go into details, but she told them that there are some "big changes" coming after the first of the year and they will greatly affect video poker.
> All she could say about the proposed changes was that "you will not like them!"
> Hedy and I will be sailing out of NOLA in January so I guess we'll get a first-hand look at whatever changes Harrah's makes.
> Regards,
> CoachVee & Hedy
>

Mon Nov 4, 2013 8:40 pm (PST) . Posted by:

"Misscraps" misscraps


The cost per person for NCF and taxes is about $300 for Caribbean from NOla, and from Seattle for Alaska is about $450 per person. Single people only pay once. On top of that add $12 per day per person for gratuities billed at the end of the trip to your room. Also any liquor, shore excursions, gambling, etc are extra. Drinks in the casino are free. I figure the discount with the certificate comes to about a half price cruise.

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