Probably a stupid question...
How do you guys regard a royal when gotten while practicing on FVP or WP?
Does it count toward overall play, even though it can't be counted as "played
hands"?
What I mean is....is it a good thing or ....what?
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What. That is to say that even if your PC worked exactly as a casino vp machine( I don't think it does)and they could be compared fairly, it doesn't matter. The fact that you hit a royal on the last hand does not influence your chances of hitting a royal on the next hand. It is neither a good thing or a bad thing. Strangely, when the practice royal hits, this knowledge does not prevent me from groaning and beating my head against the desk:-)
Chandler
At 08:53 PM 8/3/2004, you wrote:
Probably a stupid question...
How do you guys regard a royal when gotten while practicing on FVP or WP?
Does it count toward overall play, even though it can't be counted as "played
hands"?
What I mean is....is it a good thing or ....what?
I declare it on my 1040 and pay taxes on it. 
carlos
Chandler <omnibibulous1@comcast.net> wrote:
[etc]....when the practice royal hits, this knowledge does not prevent me from groaning and beating my head against the desk:-)
Chandler
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casinochristy@aol.com wrote:
Probably a stupid question...
How do you guys regard a royal when gotten while practicing on FVP or WP?
Does it count toward overall play, even though it can't be counted as "played
hands"?
What I mean is....is it a good thing or ....what?
Nothing ticks me off more than hitting a Royal at home right before a visit to the casinos. Last time I had to postpone a trip to the casinos for a month until I became "due" again. 
Seriously, it makes no difference at all. And it's not a stupid question if you don't understand probability, so here goes: truly random machines do not depend upon any record of when the last jackpot was hit, so that means that immediately after you hit a jackpot, the chances of hitting another one are identically the same as if you had not hit a jackpot in ten million hands. It's fun ... or superstitious ... and maybe a little natural ... to talk about "being due", but there really is no such thing as far as probability is concerned.
Cheers.
Bill Velek