Video Poker For Winners Simulator/Trainer

[kbrouill]

Mike A, please try to duplicate the problem with the error hands replaying.  I could understand what you are describing if you were playing in advanced mode.   But not in mixed mode (which is the closest to casino).  Please enter a bug report if you find that mixed mode does not match the casino in regards to random hands.
We provide every pay schedule that IGT released for MS.  In MS, each paytable has its own calculation of free ride percentage which controls the return of the game.  So, if you edit the paytable, we do not know what free ride values would give you the correct return for this game.  That is why we provided every paytable that you could possibly find in the casino.  It doesn't make sense to edit MS paytables unless you can also edit the free ride values.   If you find a MultiStrike or Super Time Pay paytable that we did not include, please let us know.  We will include it.  We got the paytables that were availabe from IGT at the time of the V1 VPW release and implemented every one of them.  We will add more as IGT releases more pay schedules into the casinos.
As for STP hanging.  On XP, this will happen on machines with less than 512 MB of memory.  On Vista, we have found a problem with some Vista machines where the STP will hang when the multiplier animates.  We think that we have found a workaround and are about to post a new release to the download site.  We keep a list of every person who has reported this bug in our bug database, and we will notify those people that the fix is available.  If you are having this problem, or any problem,  I hope that you have reported it in the bug database.  That would be a big help for us.   We can only fix the bugs that we know about.  www.videopokerforwinners.com/support.

[Webman]

If you guys really want resolution on these issues, please submit a bug report through the support center of the VPW web site and it will go through the proper channels.
 
I encouraged response here simply because this topic was a review of the software and the issues seemed relevant.
 
Thanks.

[bigboy]

As for STP hanging.  On XP, this will happen on machines with less than 512 MB of memory.  www.videopokerforwinners.com/support.
 
Thanks for the quick response, however my XP laptop has 1024 MB of memory with 580 MB currently available. I will send a bug report.

[MikeA]

Mike A, please try to duplicate the problem with the error hands replaying.  I could understand what you are describing if you were playing in advanced mode.   But not in mixed mode (which is the closest to casino).  Please enter a bug report if you find that mixed mode does not match the casino in regards to random hands.
www.videopokerforwinners.com/support.
 
I will do this Kbrouill.  Appreciate the attention on this.  Hopefully, it is just confusion on my part.  But, I'll attempt to recreate the problem that I recall experiencing and let you know the results.  I wish I could remember the exact hand.  Seems like it was holding two pair when one of the pairs was Aces but I no longer trust my memory.
 
Okay, I just played until I finally got into a situation where I could make the kind of error that might be indicative of what I was seeing.  I intentionally made 3 or 4 mistakes in holding cards that ignored a 3-card straight flush with two connected.  In the next 10 hands, I was dealt 6 of them that had this potential straight flush as the correct hold.  Most involved holding just a Jack when I should have held a 7/8 of the same suit.  After I made the correct play on these holds a couple of times, I didn't hit any more of them.
 
This is difficult to recreate this because first, you have to be dealt the hand and then you have to make the error on that hand multiple times before it seems to start throwing those hands at you.  It could be coincidental, but that seems a high percentage of rather unusual hands to be dealt that often randomly.
 
I am definitely playing "Mixed", against "Strategy" and am not in TEST mode.  The game was DDB though I doubt that would make any difference to the game engine.
 
Hey, listen!  I'll accept the random pronouncement from you (and you only) Kbrouill since you are the designer and coder and have the code in front of you.

[MikeA]

Man, this is so difficult to recreate.  I went back with a fresh session and couldn't get it to repeat the duplication of hands.  Maybe it was just coincidence.  Possibly I was in "advanced mode" when I first noticed it.
 
I withdraw my allegation of this not emulating normal casino play.  Unless someone verifies my paranoia, I'll chalk it up to ignorance of the options when I first got the program and assume that I was in one of the selected modes of operation (ie, "Advanced")
 
Whatever the case and with this issue eliminated from consideration, I still maintain that VPW is good training software.  If I'm going to actually play, I'll do it in the casino.  When I have it booted on my computer it is either to practice or to evaluate 'hold' options.

[bigboy]

Man, this is so difficult to recreate.  I went back with a fresh session and couldn't get it to repeat the duplication of hands.  Maybe it was just coincidence.  Possibly I was in "advanced mode" when I first noticed it.
 
 
 
 
It seems like the duplicity occurs more frequently if you have the "warn" feature enabled, as opposed to selecting "none"-where hand distribution seems much better. Obviously though, selecting none won't show you the error that you have made. Sorry, right now i vote.

[BOOPSAHOY]

I found that I kept getting the hands I made mistakes on over and over!! Not fun!So I took off the warn!Which of course defeats the reason I bought VPFW!!

[babybubba]

Dancer didn't market this product because he wanted the customer to feel good about it. It's all about keeping the gambling money in the pocket--something you failed to do when you shelled out a ridiculous $49.95 to get it.

[MikeA]

Dancer didn't market this product because he wanted the customer to feel good about it. It's all about keeping the gambling money in the pocket--something you failed to do when you shelled out a ridiculous $49.95 to get it.
 
Rob, are you implying that you bought it also in order to objectively analyze and review it?  If you haven't, then how can you make a statement like that?
 
Actually, I like the program.  Oh, there are a couple of things I would prefer to see addressed eventually...things like more efficient use of cpu cycles.  It would be nice if the screen would expand to completely utilize the screen.  But functionally, I like what it does.  I didn't buy it to play games on.  I could have gotten a $5 handheld game to satisfy that need.
 
But for the analysis of hands and generation of strategy, I find it pretty exceptional.

[bigboy]

[QUOTE=MikeA]I have advocated in other posts that new players use Simulators to get proficient in accuracy on VP machines.  I stand by that.  The simulator that I use is Dancer's VPW.  I do not push it over the others out there, it's just that Dancer's software is the product that I happen to have.  Others here on the forum push the Winpoker software
 
 
  Time to pay a visit to http://www.zamzone.com to get WP6.0.        [/QUOTE]
 
Mike A: You can get a sample of what we are talking about by going to the above link.