5a. Re: loss of a royal
Date: Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:22 pm ((PST))--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "oskerlila" wrote:
>
> I wont name the casino at this time because the out come has not been
> determind as of this time. I was dealt a flush 4 cards to aroyal. I
> held the 4 cards and hit the play button .The ace came up and gave
me
> the royal but the card next to jumped and gave me an 8 of clubs. This
> has happened to anyone else what was the outcome. I was told to file
a
> complaint with the gamming board which I did.
>Not on a royal, but I have had a card unhold itself and then get a new
on dealt in its place on many occasions. Usually it is only a few
credits lost if any, but I always worry about it happening when holding
for a royal.I was told that they could look back and see what was dealt. Whether
they can verify a first hold or not, I do not know, but if it was a
royal type card, common sense and fairness would dictate that they
honor it as held. HOWEVER, who says life is fair.
Don't worry - there are lots more royals out there (remember "Rain Man" when he takes Tom Cruise's Queen he needs for a double down, and Rain Man says "more queens...lots more").
But seriously...
I too have seen a hold switch to draw or vice versa (a card hit for hold and then hit again to un-hold it and draw to it). The hold buttons, which of course are also the un-hold buttons, are often sticky, and certainly if one uses the touch screen it also can be tricky / unresponsive.
On big hands, I always pause to make sure it's all as I want it to be before drawing -- takes a moment, but worth it (I suppose I can also make a mistake, and there's a chance to catch that too).
Sure, the pause costs you time and reduces your hands/hour, but that won't cost you as much as a human or machine error, and certainly not as much time as it will take to even TRY to get such a problem corrected!
It was a friend who taught me to double check pat hands (straights and higher with no cards to draw) to make sure everything is marked "hold" before proceeding to draw.
However, it does not sound like any of what I've described are what happened. Nevertheless, it seems VERY bizarre for a card to just decide to go from "hold" to "draw" if the button hasn't been hit in the last second or so -- that's about all it should take to assure that it is "registering" as one wishes.
I don't know if these buttons sometimes have a buffer, and act the same way my computer sometimes does, "hanging up" when I'm typing while it does something in the background and then suddenly spitting out all the letters and words I typed while it was "spinning" its wheels.
We all have seen such a pause after we hit "deal", supposedly / reportedly due to the random number generator re-setting itself or something -- I'm not sure I buy that report, since such a re-set at computer speed should not be perceivable to the human eye, I'd guess.
One last reason for a pause before drawing to big hands is that IF there is an eye in the sky recording what's happening, it will give it a reasonable opportunity to catch several frames of action before you move on, and will create a better record on tape (or whatever they're recording on) of what happened -- totally speculative on my part, though, that this will be of any value.
Oh, and finally, yes, sometimes during that pause I DO find that all is not as I wish it to be, whether the machine didn't accept one of my button hits, reversed it, or whether I made the mistake - doesn't matter, it was worth the time to catch the error before drawing, no matter who made it.
Just because they handle money doesn't make these machines, or the people who operate them (us) infallible.
--BG
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