With Christmas and Hanukkah coming up fast, I’m making a
free demo version of Dunbar’s Risk Analyzer for Video Poker 2.0
available. If you’re not familiar with
it, “DRA-VP 2.0” does risk and bankroll calculations for a wide variety of
video poker games. 53 games are
included, 46 of which can also be analyzed in their 3-, 5-, and 10-play
versions. There is also room to add up
to 50 custom pay tables. (Only 3 games
are accessible in the free demo version.)
With DRA-VP 2.0 you’ll know how much money you need to play
a game, whether it’s for a few hours or a few years. You can take into account the effects of
cashback, tipping, taxes, and play errors.
You’ll know what your chances are of reaching a specified goal during
your play. And you’ll know what your range of possible outcomes looks like.
DRA-VP 2.0 is the only software I’m aware of that will let
you do bankroll calculations on a series of different games. For example, say that you plan to play $2
9/6 JOB for the first few hours of a weekend trip. Then you intend to play 4 hours of $1 9/6
DDB. Then, if you still have funds, you
want to play a few hours of $1 five-play 8/5 Bonus Poker. DRA-VP 2.0 can tell you what the
probabilities of various outcomes are for the entire trip and also after each
stage of play. DRA-VP 2.0 can help you
decide how much money to bring. Or it
can let you know that the stakes are too high (or the play too long) for the
money you intend to bring with you.
This trial version has all the capabilities of the full
version, but only 3 pay tables of JOB are accessible. You’ll be able to use the program for about two
weeks until it self-destructs à la Mission Impossible (but without the smoke).
DRA-VP 2.0 requires Excel 2002 or later, running on a
PC. (Most of it will work on Excel for
Mac, but not the ‘series of different games’ function.)
If you’d like to try it, shoot me an email at h_dun…@…com. I’ll attach the free demo version to my
response. (It’s about 13MB).
–Dunbar