Your looking at reciprocals. When the number of hands go up per occurrence
it means it occurs less often.
Win Poker shows this both ways.
[Original Message]
From: Bill Velek <billvelek@alltel.net>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 12/8/2003 4:46:24 PM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Same machine, same Pay Schedule, program not the
same-- true or false?
Howard Stern wrote:
> On some games you should get very slightly fewer quads and full houses
> when
> playing the progressive because you tend to adjust your strategy
> toward the
> RF.This seems logical, and I'm sure it's true as a general rule ...
> Example: On Jacks or Better, the three royal becomes better than a high
> pair at a very low progressive.
> Win Poker shows 9-6 jacks with quads every 423.27 hands and FH every
86.86
···
> hands.
> With a 5000 coin progressive this is 424.70 and 87.08.... however ... it is unfortunate that the example you gave just happens
to work out to a contradiction to what you just said. For _whatever_
reason, with the Royal set at 5000, you actually get a slight _increase_
in the number of quads and FHs. Just look up at those figures you
posted ... which are absolutely correct according to WinPoker. It is
this type of anomaly which makes it somewhat difficult to accurately
predict changes in strategy with changes in paytable, and something that
I've found to make it just a little bit harder to work out strategies.But in principle, I know what you meant to demonstrate, and I'm pretty
sure that you are correct ... i.e., that the stats _generally_ DO
follow, as you've stated.Bill Velek
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