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Newbie question

#1

This is an Action Gaming/Bally product. The display is similar to WMS video
slots.
Your dealt five cards like any multi-hand game but they spin into position.
Like triple play, five play etc. your held cards are played in all hands.
The draw cards spin into position like a video slot machine and your
results are determined by looking at nine different combinations in the
same positions as a WMS video slot. The draw is done from a single deck
containing the 47 undealt cards (48 in joker poker). Strategy and ER are
exactly the same as the game it's based on (9-6 jacks, NSUD etc.). If you
play five coins per line you can play less than the nine line max without a
RF payout penalty. The game is more volatile than the equivalent multi-hand
play.

You can go to www.videopoker.com (This is the Action Gaming site.) to test
this game.

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[Original Message]
From: krazycath <crazycath2@hotmail.com>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 7/10/2004 2:02:35 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] Newbie question

What is spin poker?

Thanks

Cathy

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Howard Stern" <howard.w.stern@e...>
wrote:
Strategy and ER are

exactly the same as the game it's based on (9-6 jacks, NSUD etc.).

I haven't played the game yet, but it seems like there would be an ER
penalty because you cannot independently determine the best hold for
each of the 9 lines that will be scored? In other words, 9 lines
score but there are only 3 lines of cards, so you really only get to
make max-ER holds in 1/3 of your hands. The other 2/3 will tend to be
the best holds, perhaps, simply because many hold decisions are very
clear-cut, but spmetimes they may not be.

#3

This has been discussed several times in the past.
Detailed math analysis by Quadzilla and others
concluded that the ER of a game on Spin Poker is
the same as in single line play.

vpFREE Administrator

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On 12 Jul 2004 at 1:50, blaw57 wrote:

I haven't played the game yet, but it seems like there would be an ER
penalty because you cannot independently determine the best hold for
each of the 9 lines that will be scored? In other words, 9 lines
score but there are only 3 lines of cards, so you really only get to
make max-ER holds in 1/3 of your hands. The other 2/3 will tend to be
the best holds, perhaps, simply because many hold decisions are very
clear-cut, but spmetimes they may not be.