Hello again! I changed the subject line so folks not interested can
skip it. The reason I pursue is mostly because I responded to a
television ad. These ads are expensive to run because they are
effective at drawing people, so I imagine many other people
responded also. Poker, Video Poker and online gambling seem to be
booming in popularity right now. The television ad as well as the
web page indicated that 888.info offers free education as well as
the opportunity of playing with real money.
Yet my play there produced an obvious error within five minutes of
each of the only three times I've played there (screenshot here:
http://community.webshots.com/photo/289827656/289829982yBbFwe). This
is the kind of error that can not be possible if the game is the
video poker that is based on a single deck of cards. Isn't that the
definition of video poker?
Frank Scoblete says in his book that in New Jersey you could be
playing a game that you thought was video poker; it can still have a
random number generator and yet without being as obvious as this
one, it can be no more like a deck of cards than a slot machine with
pictures of cards rather than pictures of fruit. This made me
wonder about Mississippi gambling regulations and made me start
thinking about online video poker. I guess the Federal
Communications Commission would be responsible for regulating
television ads, but they seem more interested in regulating
comedians and musicians.
I just want to play an honest game, I can't afford to go to Las
Vegas, and I'm very new and ignorant about all this. I'll continue
to check MS regs, and I appreciate any knowlege anyone has. It
looks as though the Wizard Of Odds web site is kind of an
independent start at exposing the world of online video poker,
although it has no place to chat with others interested in it.
As yet I've not yet spent a dime on online video poker. 888.info
advertises 24-hour support, but it doesn't seem to be directed at
anwering questions or solving the problem. While I haven't lost any
money, I can hardly see how I site like this can or should be used
to learn anything about video poker. So maybe we players that can
or want to play smart should just forget about online video poker.
Linda Kuczwanski
> I guess my main question is: Is this experience telling me
something
> about the site, or is this kind of thing frequent in online
video poker.
> In Frank Scoblete's book _Victory_at_Video_Poker_ he makes the
point
> that there is no regulation in New Jersey that would keep
physical video
> poker machines from operating like slot machines. Is this still
true,
> and is it so for online video poker? Can anyone tell me if it
is true
> in Tunica, my backyard casino area? I know this is too many
question
> for a newby, and not Las Vegas centered, so if anyone can direct
me to a
> more appropriate place for my questions, I am would be very
grateful.
You're at the right place to discuss video poker, whether it's
Las Vegas related or not. However, you're unlikely to get very
much feedback about online video poker, which isn't regulated and
probably isn't patronized by most vpFREE members ... certainly not
by me. Video Poker in Nevada, New Jersey and Mississippi OTOH is
generally considered to be fair, and if you find two identical
cards in
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "vpFREE" <vpFREE@C...> wrote:
On 6 Mar 2005 at 19:41, kuczwanski wrote:
a hand it would be an abberation.
Here's another example of a gaffed deck at a freeplay site:
http://tinyurl.com/6l9hm
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