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does the bob dancer vpfw computer machines have an rng,like casino machines?like bob says you should get a royal flush in 43,000 hands,but on the 100 play i can play 430 hands,and still don't get a rf,maybe that's only in casinos?

As long as you have the difficulty set to "mixed" then it should match up fairly closely to the casinos. You should see royal flushes an average of 1/40,000 hands or so, but that is only an average.  You could go 100,000 hands and not see one, then see three close together. That's all part of life with the RNG.

I thought rng stood for random number generator. If that is true then it would very close if the casino machine uses rng.

that's like the progressive vp jokers wild,sometimes gets up to $150,000 +,do you divide the 100 million hands by the 200 machines in 12 casinos,or just by the 20 machines in each casino?

  Does the VPFW software contain versions of practice for the newer games so to speak IE; spin, MS,STP,chase the royal,super aces or trade-up? Some of them are neat to play having only played a few hands of each. I'm sure over a period of time, those games will bite you as they have to be high variance, regardless of how well you are playing them.

VPFW has multistrike,and STP,also spinpoker-no trade up or chase the royal.

VPFW has multistrike,and STP,also spinpoker-no trade up or chase the royal.   Thank you Boops, the flowers are in the mail. 

you are welcome! And thanks for the flowers

yeah,i was curios and wondered if when you play 100 games at a time on vpfw,does each game have an rng,or one for all,and could you expect a rf for every 400 plays on the 100 play vp?

I doubt anyone here knows the answer to your question since we didn't write the software. However, I assume it works something like this ... Each "line" is initialized when the machine is "powered up" with what is called a seed. This seed is used each time that particular line calls the RNG routine. The next random number (which determines the next card) is selected based on this seed. This process is repeated for each line separately, hence there is nothing shared between the lines except the held cards and the RNG program itself.
 
Since all lines are random you should see the same statistical breakdown of every possible result. That should lead to a RF every 400 hands or so on average. However, keep in mind that many of the royals occur as a result of being dealt 4RF. These DEALT hands occur on average around 2800 hands. So, it would be 280K total hands played on average between these chances. This is why multi-play results are significantly biased by the value of your dealt hands.