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Drought still continues...this time no dueces

#1

Moving into 20 years without a Royal. This time not even the 4 ducks!
Played two days at Palms on their progressive dueces machines. They are now moved back by the front door. I ran 6,000 points through. I doubt if this is enough for a royal cycle, but surely is enough to normally hit the ducks. Does anyone know how many dollars this translates to? How many dollars to normally hit ducks? Royal?
This time I stayed away from urinals numbers 3 and 5 and also 4 and 6. I tried 1 and 7(when available) to no avail.
Just got through making reservations for November. Staying at GN, but will probably play at Palms as there are not playable machines downtown in dueces now. Perhaps I need to learn a new game!

Brad
Amarillo

#2

20 years w/o a Royal! "How is that possible?" That's the same question I asked a member (who will remain anon). He had that issue about 10 years ago. He had been coming to vegas for years from California but because of "better" machines and cashback he was breaking even even without a royal (and of course having fun gambling and getting comps).

You get a quad about every 500 hands.
So deuces will be 500 hands x 13rank card ranks = every 6,500 hands (over millions of hands).
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_poker

As far as how much money between royals - Depends if you are a five cent or a Benjamin gambler :slight_smile:

Two things seem to be true however:
1) You will get Aces when you need Dueces and vice versa on some days.
2) If you gamble long enough you will get someting like 5 Royals in one day. Happened to my wife. But she's gone 5 cycles w/o a Royal!

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "bradr19" <briffel@...> wrote:

Moving into 20 years without a Royal. This time not even the 4 ducks!
Played two days at Palms on their progressive dueces machines. They are now moved back by the front door. I ran 6,000 points through. I doubt if this is enough for a royal cycle, but surely is enough to normally hit the ducks. Does anyone know how many dollars this translates to? How many dollars to normally hit ducks? Royal?
This time I stayed away from urinals numbers 3 and 5 and also 4 and 6. I tried 1 and 7(when available) to no avail.
Just got through making reservations for November. Staying at GN, but will probably play at Palms as there are not playable machines downtown in dueces now. Perhaps I need to learn a new game!

Brad
Amarillo

#3

You will hit deuces every 4884 hands and a royal every 45701 hands on FPDW.

To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
From: briffel@suddenlink.net
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:11:51 +0000
Subject: [vpFREE] Drought still continues...this time no dueces

Moving into 20 years without a Royal. This time not even the 4 ducks!
Played two days at Palms on their progressive dueces machines. They are now moved back by the front door. I ran 6,000 points through. I doubt if this is enough for a royal cycle, but surely is enough to normally hit the ducks. Does anyone know how many dollars this translates to? How many dollars to normally hit ducks? Royal?
This time I stayed away from urinals numbers 3 and 5 and also 4 and 6. I tried 1 and 7(when available) to no avail.
Just got through making reservations for November. Staying at GN, but will probably play at Palms as there are not playable machines downtown in dueces now. Perhaps I need to learn a new game!

Brad
Amarillo

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#4

Ah my friend you're thinking like a "pro".
After you've gone 150,000 straight hands without a royal try telling the machine you are "overdue" and see how far that will get you.

vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, kelso 1600 <kelso1600@...> wrote:

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You will hit deuces every 4884 hands and a royal every 45701 hands on FPDW.

#5

But that only happens about 2/3'rds of the time. About 3% of the time it will take you 5 times those numbers (24,420 and 228,505) to hit one. Even at 5 times, about 1% of the time you won't hit a single one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, kelso 1600 <kelso1600@...> wrote:

You will hit deuces every 4884 hands and a royal every 45701 hands on FPDW.

> To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
> From: briffel@...
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:11:51 +0000
> Subject: [vpFREE] Drought still continues...this time no dueces
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> Moving into 20 years without a Royal. This time not even the 4 ducks!
> Played two days at Palms on their progressive dueces machines. They are now moved back by the front door. I ran 6,000 points through. I doubt if this is enough for a royal cycle, but surely is enough to normally hit the ducks. Does anyone know how many dollars this translates to? How many dollars to normally hit ducks? Royal?
> This time I stayed away from urinals numbers 3 and 5 and also 4 and 6. I tried 1 and 7(when available) to no avail.
> Just got through making reservations for November. Staying at GN, but will probably play at Palms as there are not playable machines downtown in dueces now. Perhaps I need to learn a new game!
>
> Brad
> Amarillo
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> vpFREE Links: http://members.cox.net/vpfree/Links.htm
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#6

Going 20 years without a Royal is no big deal. I know scads of people in that category. Of course, most of them play little, if any, video poker.

My point is that statements about lack of results based on a time period mean nothing without information on the number of hands played.

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

20 years w/o a Royal! "How is that possible?

#7

Hi Brad, I hope that you have a good streak real soon. I have a friend who went a while without deuces and hit them back to back one day. Obviously, you can't predict when certain outcomes will happen but you can't stay that cold forever.

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "bradr19" <briffel@...> wrote:

Moving into 20 years without a Royal. This time not even the 4 ducks!
Played two days at Palms on their progressive dueces machines. They are now moved back by the front door. I ran 6,000 points through. I doubt if this is enough for a royal cycle, but surely is enough to normally hit the ducks. Does anyone know how many dollars this translates to? How many dollars to normally hit ducks? Royal?
This time I stayed away from urinals numbers 3 and 5 and also 4 and 6. I tried 1 and 7(when available) to no avail.
Just got through making reservations for November. Staying at GN, but will probably play at Palms as there are not playable machines downtown in dueces now. Perhaps I need to learn a new game!

Brad
Amarillo