August Contest Results: Single Hand

[Webman]

Thanks to everyone who participated in our most recent Single Hand Draw Poker contest here
at
VideoPoker.com. It was a lot of fun to watch, and we

hope you enjoyed it as
well.As always, we
saw some incredible high scores! We hope
some of our members find similar luck in the casinos soon.For complete
contest
results and
winners, click here!Winners
will be contacted by email in the next few days and have 3 business days to respond and
claim their prize(s). Please specify appropriate clothing size for
apparel awards.We look forward to offering more
contests in the near future. As always, we appreciate your feedback.

[Webman]

For the first time this month, we had a large number of Gold Members towards the top.It looks like a good number of Gold Members caught on to the Royal Aces pay table this time around, which awards 4000 for 4 Aces. That makes the chances of a jackpot much higher than most other game variations.Congratulations to the winners. There will be a forum poll up shortly to find out if people enjoyed these pay tables for a single line contest, or if you would prefer game types where only a royal flush pays 4000.

[Webman]

Please take a brief moment to answer the poll we just created, regarding pay tables in the recent single line contest:http://www.videopoker.com/forum/forum_p ... p?TID=3197

[New2vp]

For the first time this month, we had a large number of Gold Members towards the top.It looks like a good number of Gold Members caught on to the Royal Aces pay table this time around, which awards 4000 for 4 Aces. That makes the chances of a jackpot much higher than most other game variations.An alternate explanation for more Gold at the top might have been that this was a single line tournament where it was not necessary to have a DEALT JACKPOT HAND to win.  Although there is still a lot of luck involved, it takes a little more skill to get the hands on the draw than on the deal.  (I know...there are a lot of skilled non-Gold players out there, but I would guess that the typical Gold player might possibly be a bit more serious about vp.)I do like to have more choices rather than fewer choices, but you have enough tournaments where you can mix it up and sometimes offer the games like Royal Aces or TDB or even AC Joker Wild where 5trees pay off more often than royals.  Sometimes delete them from the list.  No reason to go strictly one way or the other.Just like you can mix it up with single line sometimes, triple play most of the time, and 5-, 10-, 50-, or 100- play other times.This time I liked the inclusion of a couple Joker games which paid 4700 and 5000 for a royal.  The couple times I hit one jackpot hand in the tourney, it made me have to decide whether to play for a bigger paying royal on the Joker games to overtake the leader or continue to stick with the Royal Aces and try to get the more frequent 4000 PLUS another big hand.  And since TDB also pays 2000 for small quads + kicker, that had to be considered, too.By the way, thanks for the extra work and as always the well-run tournament, but now I have to acquire even more discipline to get other things in my life done!

[New2vp]

...Or it could have been just "dumb luck" that there are so many golds this time.As we've discussed many times on the forum, sometimes "patterns" just have to do with a peculiar run of the celestial RNG.  We don't have to like it but sometimes there is no explanation other than randomness.(...but I still think that single line might have something to do with it...until you run the next single line tourney and the Golds are shutout!)

[Tax Man]

Enjoyed the new contest very much.  Keep it up

[silverlining444]

Great contest as usual,WEBMAN,  always  have fun playing and enjoyed myself immensely.am from Iowa,not a lot going on here lol congragulations to all winners posted  silver

[DSki24]

Thanks for the info webman. My wife & myself can't wait for the next contest. She placed in the top 100 twice. I myself, I stunk it up consider me the Detroit Lions of the Aug contest..LOL

[renoman21]

When does the SEPT 2010 CONTEST START

[Webman]

There will be another single line contest beginning on Sep 8th, and a multi-line contest starting on the 24th (game to be announced).