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[vpFREE] Dropped hold

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About 3 years ago in Indiana I was playing $1 NSUD and was dealt 3 deuces. I drew 2 cards and the first card up was a deuce. But I had 3 again. I had a mechanic open the machine and tell me what happened. He said you were dealt 3 deuces and only held 2. If you think that it was a machine malfunction they will return your $5. Some weeks later I played the same machine. If I tapped the draw button to hard the second card from the left disappeared.

In most states for a malfunction they will only return the money you put in that hand.

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Re: [vpFREE] Dropped hold

Didn't casinos used to prohibit photography? I suppose with the advent of smart phones, such a policy became unworkable.

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Re: [vpFREE] Dropped hold

Excellent idea!

Thank you.

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[vpFREE] Re: Pseudorandom number or just random - is there difference

"Random" is hard to define. There is a vast literature out there on the topic.

For purposes of video poker, what is needed is a way to provide for any card to be "as probable" as any other card, to within some statistical criteria. That last phrase after the comma is "the best you can do."

"Pseudorandom" is an admission of imperfection, applied to any programmatic method of generating a random sequence. Some important person once called this "living in sin."

In the end, you have to realize that if a departure from pure randomness is hard to recognize, you need not spend more effort on improving it.

I understand that the RNG (random number generator) in a video poker machine runs constantly, even between the deal and the draw. The precise millisecond that the user hits a button is a natural randomness. So you have a random pick out of a pseudorandom sequence. That's possibly good enough for all practical purposes.

I'm personally inclined to trust the Nevada Gaming Commission's dominion over in-state casinos. Seems to me that, say, a 3% advantage for the house, averaged over a month for all the action on the floor, would provide a satisfactory house income.

I have no such trust for "Indian" machines outside Nevada. Biasing the RNG is programmatically trivial.

We folks here may play to better than 97% payback (on certain payoff schedules) but the unwashed multitudes play well below that, to the advantage of the house.

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[vpFREE] Re: Jokers Wild 2

I think the only practical way to get good at JW2 is to prepare a chart
in the format that suits your personal learning style. Then develop
mnemonics to memorize the complex rankings of hands with the joker and
without the joker. Then practice quite a bit using one of the software
packages, or the practice application on the Wizard of Odds' site.
Going through this whole process will aid learning, better than picking
up someone else's prepackaged strategy chart. That's what I did, and I
had quite a good time with the game for a while, though I'd need to
spend a lot of time brushing up on it by now.

JW2 is a very good game in a handful of locations. If you can play
close to optimally, and have the opportunity to receive good comps and
offers, you might have something worthwhile. I think that the game
survives BECAUSE it is so difficult to play well. Casino managers know
that they can assign it a decent theo, and the vast majority of players
will be big losers on the game.

Discussion on this forum of the taxation of winnings long ago became
tiresome, frankly. I no longer wish to get drawn into threads on the
subject. The same old misconceptions continue to abound. The subject
IS a bit complex. If someone has a good summary of federal and state
laws pertaining to taxation of video poker profits and receipts, perhaps
everyone could just point to the location of that summary when the
subject comes up.

WRX

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