July Contest featuring Wheel Poker

[Webman]

It's time for our 4th of July Contest featuring an exciting brand new game called Wheel Poker.
Normally reserved for GOLD members only, Wheel Poker rewards any 4 of
kind with a spin of the wheel where you can win up to an additional
2,000 credits! Enter the contest now for your chance to play this fun new game.The Grand Prize winner will get a VideoPoker.com merchandise package
full of goodies, including a free copy of our most recent training
software product, Video Poker's Greatest Hits. We'll
also award t-shirts to 4 runner up winners. And, the top 5 people with
the most wheel bonus points in a single contest session will also get a
t-shirt.Finally, we've added a contest FAQ section to address questions specifically about the contests, and you can see who is a gold or basic member right in the leaderboard. Hopefully this will serve to demonstrate that everyone has a chance for the top scores, free and Gold alike.Good luck to all... go get 'em!

[vidopoker]

Thanks for doing Wheel! I played this last weekend in Vegas and won $600 on it!

[New2vp]

Webman,As always, this was a fun contest, perhaps more fun than some of the past ones.  I don't know if it was the novelty of the Wheel or the fact that I scored a little better than usual.  Normally I have to add up my top 5 scores to compete with the contest winners; this time the sum of my top two scores would be winning.If you have the statistics on the spins during the contest, I thought that the distribution of spin values might be an interesting addition to your usual contest summary and wrap-up.  I averaged exactly 400.0 on Wheel spins while playing this game (some of this was before the contest), but I think I read somewhere that the actual average was somewhat higher, so I was a bit unlucky in that regard.In anticipation of the actual numbers if you can produce them, I would offer these guesses to see how close I might be able to come.  100            2.6%  150            5.3%  200          10.8%  250          18.82%  300          14.0%  400          12.8%  500          15.8%  600            3.55%  800            8.6%1000            6.8%2000            0.93%Owing to the small sample size on which I based these guesses, some of these are undoubtedly way off, but some might be close.Again, thanks for the contests.

[cddenver]

I can't believe the lack of whining.  Everyone must be happy with their scores. 
 
 

[faygo]

I can't believe the lack of whining.  Everyone must be happy with their scores. 
 
 
 
NOT!  I was waiting for you to start, something. Didn't want to be the "Lone Whiner".

[rosalie]

Webman this is for you.  Don't consider this as whinning, but more of an observation.  I've noticed that when playing these contest, after a couple of days you already know who the winners are going to be.  Some of these contest run anywhere from 7 to 10 days or so and the players who are trying to play catch up never even get close.  What is the sense of playing after a couple of days when the winners have already been accounted for.  I know that some of you would consider this as complaining or whinning has you may call it, but I thought that it would be more fun playing if you don't know who the winners are going to be until the very last day or so of the contest.
Please no negative responses on my comment.  Like I said this is only an observation.
Thanks for listening.

[Webman]

I think this is actually the earliest such a high score (and possible winner) has been hit. It has been very rare for the top 5 spots to last until the final couple days. I know they may "feel" out of reach early on but previous contests have shown that people playing in the final hours have just a good a shot as earlier. That is... you have just as good a shot at actually winning a prize, not of making the board. Getting on the board is certainly harder the longer the contest stays online because you have more and more people reaching the higher scores.For whatever it's worth, the current 4th place score in the current contest was just hit yesterday as was the highest session Wheel Bonus total.

[New2vp]

I thought that it would be more fun playing if you don't know who the winners are going to be until the very last day or so of the contest.
Please no negative responses on my comment. rosalie, if you would rather not know the high scores, there is still an answer for you.  You can change the size of your browser window and exclude the scoreboard, but still play.  You can then note your own scores and keep track of them.An observation.  If some people choose not to play because they cannot beat the high scores, that actually increases your chances of winning, since fewer people will have a chance at the fluke hands that produce the high scores.

[Webman]

Also note that in this contest we are keeping the Wheel Bonus scores hidden until after the contest, for just this reason.Thank you for the feedback. We always keep user comments in mind in planning for future contests.

[marlo]

I think the contest should be renamed "TRIPLE DOUBLE BONUS" ............. There are no other games with high scores .... Why play the other games!
I like the Wheel Bonus ... but I want to see it more often