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Can You "Throw Away" a Pick Em Royal?

#1

I may be wrong here, but it is my understanding that PickEm is the only VP
game where the cards for the hand - including draws - are selected at the start
of the hand. Had you chosen the Ah, you'd have gotten two different cards
on your draw.

Anyone can feel free to appropriately "take me to the woodshed" if I'm
wrong! :slight_smile:

- Brian in MI

Gman wrote:

This morning, while playing Pick Em, I was dealt Jh Th and had to
choose between Tc and Ah. Because the 3-card Royal would have
included an Ace, I took the high pair. The next two cards were Kh
and Qh.

I'm in Vegas at the moment and don't have Bob Dancer's PE book
handy.

Bob, as I recall, you said in the book that no one except the Bally's
programmers knows whether there really are two different pairs of
cards "behind" PE's two visible 3rd cards. I also recall you
recommending that a player choose to believe whichever theory is most
comforting to that player. Today I choose to BELIEVE that the Kh and
Qh would not have appeared if I had selected the Ah.

Nevertheless, I prefer KNOWLEDGE over BELIEF when the facts are
available. Question (for Bob or anyone who knows): Has Bally's ever
revealed whether the choice of the 3rd card in PE affects what 4th
and 5th cards will appear?

If this matters, the machine that I was playing is a rather old coin
dropper.

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#2

I may be wrong here, but it is my understanding that PickEm is the

only VP

game where the cards for the hand - including draws - are selected at

the start

of the hand. Had you chosen the Ah, you'd have gotten two different

cards

on your draw.

Wouldn't Nevada's current regulations on continuous shuffling until the
redraw (to thwart computer whizzes from exploiting flaws in RNG's with
pattern recognition techniques) apply to recent versions of Pick 'Em?

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#3

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "vegasvpplayer" <vegasvpplayer@...>
wrote:

Wouldn't Nevada's current regulations on continuous shuffling until

the redraw (to thwart computer whizzes from exploiting flaws in RNG's
with pattern recognition techniques) apply to recent versions of
Pick 'Em?

This is part of the reason why (in my original question) I specified
that I was playing an "old" PE machine. I, too, have read somewhere
that newer PE machines shuffle continuously. But I don't know that to
be true, or required by any NV regulation. -- The GMan