A year in Quads - 2013

[Tedlark]

  Going for a record on the number of emoticons used in a post are we?

[Galeygoo]

Yep, animation seems to be a nice distraction from the same ole, same ole nasty banter.

[Tedlark]

Too bad emoticons can't be used in the forum as well.

[spxChrome]

So I am a .net developer and several years ago I wrote a shareware version of a little Video Poker player for Windows. So I took a little time to program it to run in auto-mode based on any number of hands. Now the randomizer is based on the computers internal clock but it is randomized prior to selecting the RNG. So while it is still considered pseudo it does not use a seed so its about as random as you can get with a computer. I put it on DDB auto-run for 1 million hands and compared the results against what I recorded for a year of quads I pulled at an actual casino. I did modify the code to reflect my playing style like breaking up any little full house to go for the 400/800.



The variance in what I pulled at a casino VS the way a RNG should run is just not even close.

[chattycattty]

Looks like you are getting squeezed on the quads that really matter the most.

[olds442jetaway]

I notices right away the premium quads were way low. If these results could somehow be tabulated throughout the country at many different casinos from many different patrons, we would once and for all know the answer about so called rng programs assuming the results would be similar to yours.

[DaBurglar]

Just to add fuel to this burgeoning fire, I have stated that in AC, many of the VP machines are "adjusted" to return far lower than even their crappy paytables imply...but NOT all machines are set this way....some machines for some VP games are left alone and nature is allowed to take its course....BUT, my own dtata over the past 4 years tells me that the majority of the machines "left alone" are the ones offering basic games like JOB (with AC's typically awful paytables), or deuces wild, games that we know do not offer the potentially big paydays that other games offer with the premiun wuad hands (except of course, ROYALS, but those are rare enough as it is so the casinos just accept those...)    How I know this from my data is simple:I have found that when playing a game like JOB (including progressive JOB games), I am almost three times as likely to get quad ACES as I am playing almost any other game (DB, DDB, TDB.....)......in regards to plain old Bonus Poker, with its "ok but not great payoff" for quad aces of 200 units, it is almost even to JOB, only slightly lower.Now I'm just sayin.....

[spxChrome]

How I know this from my data is simple:I have found that when playing a game like JOB (including progressive JOB games), I am almost three times as likely to get quad ACES as I am playing almost any other game (DB, DDB, TDB

So true and 10x more likely when playing deuces