February videopoker.com contest

[New2vp]

There are a couple other ways to make the top scores within reach.  One is to make the score for hands other than the royal flush relatively higher.  This will require just a bit of thought and I realize that what follows is a made-up game, but there would many more ways to catch up than just hitting a royal.  Just a couple sets of quads or straight flushes would be all that was necessary to catch up or surpass one of the luckier royal flush draws.WinPoker-like statistics for 10-coin adapted game with Double Double Bonus-like pay lines:



DOUBLE DOUBLE BONUS POKER





Hand Name
Payout
Frequency
% Prob.
Occurs Every
% of Ret.


ROYAL FLUSH
4000
58.98936
0.00%
44058.12
0.91%


STRAIGHT FLUSH
2400
408.6075
0.02%
6360.529
3.77%


4 ACES w 2,3,or 4
3000
159.7736
0.01%
16266.52
1.84%


4 2,3,or4 w A-4
2400
386.3631
0.02%
6726.73
3.57%


4 ACES
2400
450.4925
0.02%
5769.152
4.16%


4 2,3,or4
2000
1042.544
0.04%
2492.903
8.02%


4 5-K
1750
4397.793
0.17%
590.9692
29.61%


FULL HOUSE
60
25224.24
0.97%
103.0342
5.82%


FLUSH
40
26100.57
1.00%
99.57484
4.02%


STRAIGHT
30
31303.17
1.20%
83.02545
3.61%


3 OF A KIND
15
201556.2
7.76%
12.89447
11.63%


TWO PAIR
10
323719.8
12.46%
8.028424
12.46%


JACKS OR BETTER
5
527814.3
20.31%
4.924005
10.15%


NOTHING
0
1456337
56.04%
1.784587
0.00%


Total Return




99.59%


Variance




104.611

Certainly this would bring in more strategy and more chances to catch up with the top score.(I adjusted the return and variance statistics to reflect 10-coin wagers instead of 5-coin wagers.)

[New2vp]

Another way to make some contests more strategic and a little less subject to luck is to lengthen the number of plays.I know that most seem to favor 100 plays, but in the crucial games when you were lucky enough to get one or two big hits and you just need one more, it is much more fun to have the extra tries that 200 plays will allow.I realize that most of the time when you haven't had even the single big hit, 200 plays seems like too long...but you always have the ability to quit and start over without finishing, so I really don't understand why this would be a problem.Perhaps a mixture would be best, sometimes allow more plays (or maybe split the difference and go to 150).

[faygo]

Another way, in my estimation, to reduce the Royal effect would be to allow credit reduction just like for real. Having hit a good score early on in the challenges at times one winds up holding on  by the skin of their teeth or losing it all.

[New2vp]

Another way, in my estimation, to reduce the Royal effect would be to allow credit reduction just like for real. Having hit a good score early on in the challenges at times one winds up holding on  by the skin of their teeth or losing it all.I like it.  Even if it doesn't totally reduce the royal effect, it certainly does give someone an incentive to cash out early and "lock in" any winnings.

[faygo]

[QUOTE=faygo]

Another way, in my estimation, to reduce the Royal effect would be to allow credit reduction just like for real. Having hit a good score early on in the challenges at times one winds up holding on  by the skin of their teeth or losing it all.I like it.  Even if it doesn't totally reduce the royal effect, it certainly does give someone an incentive to cash out early and "lock in" any winnings.
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 Leave it to new to find the weakness.  OK! Only 100 hand scores count.

[Miller77]

Who's dissing whom?
 
I never said it was a bad thing to have no life.
 
Bob

 
No, you didn't... My wife tells me that all the time though.