Stanford Wong VP was not so unknown. About 12 years ago, it was the
standard. It worked very well even on machines slower than a 286.
For game EV however you needed the companion program VPEXACT. (This needed
at least a 386 and took about 2 hr 10m to analyze a game on my 486/66.)
It is still the only set of programs that handle different values for
various three of a kinds (Nevada Bonus, High Fives etc.) I still use these
programs for games of this type.
The one bad thing was that on deuces it only had one line for straights and
flushes (VPEXACT did not have this problem.) so you could not use it for
NSUD.
I also know Rodger Pederson (the person who did the graphics) from chess in
the Chicago Area. (Villa Crespo was a Highland Park IL co.)
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[Original Message]
From: Bill Velek <billvelek@alltel.net>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 8/24/2004 4:36:55 PM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Re: Just how hard up is Bob Dancer?chiefvrwc2@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/24/2004 12:58:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> whitejeeps@yahoo.com writes:
>
> > Since we're talking about the old guys, I want to mention the little
> > known Villa Crespo vp program that was, in my opinion, as good as BD.
> > I still have a copy running on an old Packard Bell 486.
>
> Good as Zamzow's? As long as you had overnight to wait for the EV
> calcs, it
> was OK. Do you have another Packard that you start with a hand crank
> in front?Now that is funny. Very clever.
Cheers.
Bill Velek
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