HI, I'M VACATIONING IN VEGAS WITH FAMILY THE END OF JUNE, WE ARE STAYING AT TREASURE ISLAND. WHERES A GOOD CASINO TO PLAY QUARTER J OR BETTER VIDEO POKER? I...
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my1yorkie@...
May 1, 2002 11:11 pm
We have always been lucky at the Rio. You should try that Hotel. The have good Double/Double Video Poker machines there right across from the Carnival Buffet....
I have to respectfully disagree. There is very little in the way of good vp offerings in the Rio. As much as I love the hotel(the suites are great, terrific...
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my1yorkie@...
May 2, 2002 12:26 am
You could be right about the Rio- we will try the Palms when we get out there in July this year. Thanks Eric M...
As suggested, we did a simulation of 40,000 hands per trip times 20 trips to Vegas playing $.25 FPDW on winpoker. This analysis was done on our home computer...
Hi Group. In reference to the interesting comments by Elaine Rose; I also noticed that discarded cards seem to reappear on the draw with the same number but...
If you are asking whether Winpoker is "rigged" to overpay, absolutely not. I don't know the math but my guess is that 800,000 hands of a 100.7%, 25.8 variance...
Someone noted that ordinary slot machines have too many near misses for random machines. That's true . They have a set win/loss ratio, and are not truly random...
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mmcschmidt
mmcschmidt@...
May 3, 2002 7:45 pm
Here's something that I recently became curious about along this same line. I accept that the cards that are drawn are done so at random (in Vegas), but is...
I think I read somewhere that slot machine outcomes are determined in 2 phases. First, it determines whether the spin is going to be a winning one or a losing...
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Webmaster
webmaster@...
May 3, 2002 8:35 pm
I had a friend in the business, IGT and Bally's, and while it's not impossible to manipulate programming, it is very difficult and a casino would be risking a...
... entertainment alone ... watching ... them "why...." ... away ... cards ... pair when ... favorite suits ... draw to ... with things ... over 50% ... I've...
Webmaster, Over a period of years I have been in many discussions about "Secondary Programming". Many people believe that SP is used in Native American casinos...
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John Misiak
jmisiak@...
May 4, 2002 12:37 pm
Can anyone tell me how to change the email address that this message board is responding to? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Yes, John, and it is relatively easy. 1) Go to Yahoo Groups Winpoker Home Page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/winpoker/ 2) Sign in if you are not already...
... We were wondering how this home computer compares with actual casino machines which are played by other people. What we are asking is if our home computer...
... "I have to believe that this is a random occurrence that just happens to catch our eye." When doubting randomness, please try to keep this thought. The...
... dealt ... or more ... pushing ... yet. ... This is just a guess, but here is how I imagine the RNG is used to select a card. The game has an internal...
Dean, As the programmer, can you explain how the RNG works. I cannot explain exactly how it works and this has been a topic of some interest lately. Tell us...
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Bill Haywood
bhaywood@...
May 7, 2002 3:25 am
This is a question with a lot of relevance to some of the new online games that allow players to switch off being the dealer. Can Winpoker be used to calculate...
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mmcschmidt
mmcschmidt@...
May 7, 2002 3:55 am
John; I don't mean to butt in. I saw a related post by Dean a while ago and finally found it again. Check out message 728 to see if that's the information...
... Mike, you are not butting in, thank you for the help. I was attempting to get an answer for brumar_lv message # 1256. Most of the programming stuff is...
The was a rather exciting question to wake up to this morning. The prospects are fascinating. Let me roll out the thoughts/answers that crossed my mind. I'm...
In my reply I referenced your example incorrectly (should have been 2HC hold vs. 4 flush). This does not materially affect the reply itself. Sorry for the...
While post 728 was good information it doesn't really answer the question. There are many RNG algorithms and they can vary quite significantly in their...
Dick, I believe more than 15 bits are involved in the typical random number function these days. Otherwise no more than 32K values could be represented. An...
... attempting to ... programming stuff ... need the ... Just to clarify a point here, my message #1256 was not meant to suggest anything about how RNG's work....
Harry, you are correct that more than 15 bits is supported. This is done by setting RAND_MAX in C++. As I indicated in my post I was only referring to the...
The goal of a RNG in video poker is relatively simple. When the video poker program requests a number between 1 and 52 (or however many cards are in the...
