The WMS vp games had strategy that was absolutely horrible. I think their "PAR" sheets were based on this and grossly understated the return on their games. (I believe they showed a 97% return for the 100.24% version of Multi-Pay found as a base game in Frugal VP. If you used the suggested autohold strategy that would be right.)
The IGT strategies were inaccurate also but not nearly as bad as WMS. At the Majestic Star (Gary IN) the players asked that it be turned off because it was a pain to correct so many bad holds. (The house actually advertised that they listened to their players when they did turn the autohold off on these.)Also at the Majestic Star, Trump (Now Majestic Star 2) and Empress Hammond (Now Horseshoe)they used to have VLC vp that gave what appeared to be perfect or near perfect holds but in this market they were poor games (sub 97%).
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From: eecounter <eecounter@hotmail.com>
Sent: Jan 28, 2009 8:43 AM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Autohold Question--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "tenore_s" <tenore_s@...> wrote:
But I've never seen an autohold suggest a play that I was sure was
wrong - you'd have to have a strategy sheet for that exact paytable
(and many of these machines are pretty low payout) to evaluate it.>
.........It seems clear that IGT or whoever makes the machines would be
opening up a can of worms for themselves if they implemented an
autohold that was not exactly correct.......It has been a long time since I've played a machine with autohold,
but the ones that I have played in the past definitely gave
incorrect advice for some types of hands. One specific example that
I recall was a deuces wild machine that would advise holding two
deuces PLUS one single card whenever two deuces were dealt with
nothing better. After all, a hand like 2,2,K *is* three of a kind,
and that is what was lit up on the pay table, so that's what the
machine said to hold. This is a horrible error.I also remember a particular video blackjack game which had autohold
enabled on some machines. Among other errors, the machine would
NEVER suggest surrender, even though surrender was fequently the
correct play for this particular game.Some machines with autohold will have language buried in the help
screens that states that the autohold feature will not necessarily
always suggest the optimal play, but I don't know is this language
is always present.EE