If this happens often you should be playing Sigma's "Add Em Up" VP where a
hand like that counts as four of a kind. Like most other VP there are very
good and very bad paytables.
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From: jaywilly240 <wha724@comcast.net>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 8/21/2004 6:47:28 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: IS IT ALIVE?--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "vppappy" <tismurph@h...> wrote:
>
Weird. But I will admit that I have sometimes thought I detected a
personality in some of the VP machines I've played over the years.
Not a warm fuzzy personality either, more like a nasty smart ass
taunting arrogance. For instance: you get dealt 777xx. You draw and
get 5,2 or 4,3 or 6,A. Then three hands later you draw to 999xx and
get 6,3 or 7,2 or 4,5. And so on. Every time (or so it seems) you
draw to trips, you get two cards that add up to the one you wanted.
It's as if that RNG under the glass is sticking its little electronic
tongue out at you.JW
> Guys, Here's something interesting to ponder about video poker
> that I found while reading Miron Stabinsky's & Jeremy
Silman's "Zen
> and the Art of Casino Gaming." ( Summit Publishing, 1995 )
>
> "Randomness is an indifferent, uncaring bitch." --VP Pappy
>
>
>
>
>
> IS IT ALIVE?
>
> "Although these electronic machines are supposed to give purely
> random results, some of the people in the know insist that video
> poker machines have crossed the border and entered into a sort of
> twilight zone. They say certain computer chips often begin to act
> differently than others and this "personality" creates certain
trends
> that the player might be able to take advantage of.
> I must admit that I don't completely buy this point of view, but
> out of curiosity I sat down with a well-known casino's top slot man
> (Harold) and asked some questions.
>
> QUESTION?: What's all this rubbish about these video poker machines
> being alive?
>
> "Of course they're not alive, but some of these machines do show
a
> personality that sets them apart from the norm. Instead of giving
you
> a truly random deal, which is what they are supposed to do, these
odd
> machines will religiously hand you certain combinations of cards. A
> sharp player can take advantage of this.
> "For example, let's supposed that your machine keeps giving you
> lots of sevens. You take note of this and, after playing for
awhile,
> find yourself facing a horrible hand with a single seven and lots
of
> other unrelated cards. The best thing to do is to keep this seven,
> even if this is not the right thing to do as far as the basic odds
> are concerned. Your demented machine may very likely throw another
> couple of sevens your way and leave you with trips or even a boat."
>
> QUESTION: This is insane! Does anybody really believe this stuff?
How
> is it possible?
>
> "Originally, these poker machines had only one chip and only one
> standard deck of fifty-two cards. The house got blasted, though,
when
> the players noticed these personality trends and made use of them.
It
> became so obvious that the casino laid out a tremendous amount of
> extra money and had up to seven computer chips placed in each
> machine; each chip represents a new deck of cards so, personality
or
> no personality, the alternating chips brought back the randomness
> that the house wanted. It works like this: the first time you ask
for
> cards to be dealt, you get action from one deck/chip. The next time
> you are dealt cards, the second deck/chip is used. And on and on.
> "As for how a computer personality is possible, I think it all
> hinges around the effects of magnetic fields. In electromagnetism,
> which is essentially the system that makes a random probability
> character generator work, you're dealing with electronic fields of
> magnetism that form recurring patterns. Theoretically, these fields
> have a physical influence on the chip that might create small
periods
> of time which numbers repeat then selves."
>
> QUESTION: It sounds like the same wishful thinking that I've seen
in
> all the table games. You notice field numbers in craps repeating
over
> and over again, or you feel that the dealer is hitting twenty-one
way
> too often in blackjack. These things happen all the time, but it
> really doesn't mean anything at all. If you began to count on these
> mystical factors to come to your aid, you will be setting yourself
up
> for a big fall.
> "Miron, I agree with you as far as the law of probabilities or
> superstition goes, but here we are talking about an actual physical
> influence. You have to understand that the computer aspects of a
> poker machine operate at a very low energy output; something like
two
> volts. The sad thing is that these chips are stuck inside a steel-
> lined case which has a video monitor on top of it running on 40,000
> active volts. This creates a tremendous field --energy that might
be
> doing all sorts of strange things to you and to the microchip.
> "Just imagine two-volt character generators hovering around all
> that energy. I've seen dozens of strange things come out on the
> display panel. We've had royal flushes come up and go away without
> the customer even touching the panel buttons. I had a guy walk up
to
> the screen, put his finger on it, and it sparked. Nine-hundred
> credits magically appeared on the monitor! He ask to cash out and I
> had to pay him those nine-hundred coins."vpFREE Links: http://members.cox.net/vpfree/Links.htm
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