Newb Question

[Yvo452]

Hello, everyone I have a bit of a beginner question. I've heard a couple years ago that video poker in Las Vegas and Atlantic City were different? Something about Las Vegas video poker actually representing a card game and shuffle, while the way it's run in Atlantic City is more like a slot machine or something? Can someone shed some light on this for me? Thank you for any insight.

[Tedlark]

There is no difference between Las Vegas and Atlantic City as to how video poker operates.

[Mcgarrett]

Just played 500 hands in different contests. Not one 4 of a kind. HOW does that happen?

[Tedlark]

Were you holding the right cards?

[onemoretry]

Just played 500 hands in different contests. Not one 4 of a kind. HOW does that happen?
Five hundred quadless hands is hardly an example of a bad streak. There's about a 30% chance of it.

[Mcgarrett]

Of course I was holding the right cards. Just played another 100 hands, same result. I notice other contest scores are not as high as they normally are. Interesting. For me it is not as much fun to play when you can't get a higher score. It is only for fun but it would be much more fun to beat my last score. I feel I am just treading water. Too bad, this site has seen better days.

[FAA]

It's can't always be Christmas. Even when you play for free.

[Galeygoo]

It's not the site, it's the games.  All three contest games offered today are notoriously stingy.

[Mcgarrett]

OK I am back again. Just played 600 more hands in the contests. Still not one 4 of a kind. I am not complaining about not "winning" anything, just that it doesn't seem like it is as much fun as it has been in the past. I don't care about "winning" but it is so much more fun to have higher scores. This is suppose to be fun which means to me sometimes higher scores. Also lower scores can be fun but just knowing when I start that I will get such a low score takes the excitement out of playing.

[NOWHERENOW]

stats are stats. Sometimes they seem to not go your way but over the long haul they will bear out. One of these times you'll get 4 quads in 100 hands