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Bob Dancer's CasinoGaming Column - 19 FEB 2008

#1

Minor correction. In STP, multipliers occur, on average, every 15 hands. And
10X multipliers represent 1 out of 20, on average, of appearing multipliers.
So, make that one in 15 * 20 = 300 hands of any type, including Royals.

Frequency of multipliers in STP is, out of every 40 occurrences:
2X/3X/4X/5X, 9 each; 8X/10X, 2 each.

Brian

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In a message dated 3/19/2008 3:26:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
harry.porter@verizon.net writes:

...only about one in 400 royals in STP will be combined with a 10x
multiplier...

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#2

bjaygold wrote:

Minor correction. In STP, multipliers occur, on average, every 15
hands. And 10X multipliers represent 1 out of 20, on average, of
appearing multipliers. So, make that one in 15 * 20 = 300 hands of
any type, including Royals.

Frequency of multipliers in STP is, out of every 40 occurrences:
2X/3X/4X/5X, 9 each; 8X/10X, 2 each.

Thanks, Brian. On the fly, I wasn't able to locate multiplier
frequency statistics and relied instead on the anecdotal observations
noted in Michael Shackleford's website (wizard of odds).

As a sidenote, what's interesting is that over the course of 440
witnessed multipliers, he observed a 3x frequency (155) that was about
twice that of the average value for 2x/4x/5x (78). Over that number
of observations, a deviation of that magnitude is extraordinarily
anomalous.

http://wizardofodds.com/videopoker/tables/super-times-pay.html

- Harry

#3

bjaygold wrote:

Frequency of multipliers in STP is, out of every 40 occurrences:
2X/3X/4X/5X, 9 each; 8X/10X, 2 each.

In looking back, it would appear that this information is from an
earlier howard.stern post. In addition to the Shackleford site I
noted, another internet search yielded another suggestion that
howard's info may not be accurate.

- H.

#4

Minor correction. In STP, multipliers occur, on average, every 15

hands. And

10X multipliers represent 1 out of 20, on average, of appearing

multipliers.

So, make that one in 15 * 20 = 300 hands of any type, including

Royals.

Frequency of multipliers in STP is, out of every 40 occurrences:
2X/3X/4X/5X, 9 each; 8X/10X, 2 each.

I believe this table is more accurate:

Multiplier Probability Rounds to get it
      1 0.9333333 1.07
      2 0.0113333 88.24
      3 0.0220000 45.45
      4 0.0106667 93.75
      5 0.0160000 62.50
      8 0.0040000 250.00
     10 0.0026667 375.00

Dick

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