I think that knowing the standard deviation of a particular game has limited value. For myself, it's just a tool for comparison.
But knowing the SD for a 5,000 hand session, for 100,000 hands, or more, would allow a player to expect results within 1 SD of the mean 68% of the time, 2 SDs of the mean 95% of the time, and so on.
Through forumula or simulation, has anyone published these figures?
SD (hands) = sqrt(variance x hands)
http://www.jazbo.com/videopoker/curves.html
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "forkush" <forkush@...> wrote:
I think that knowing the standard deviation of a particular game has limited value. For myself, it's just a tool for comparison.
But knowing the SD for a 5,000 hand session, for 100,000 hands, or more, would allow a player to expect results within 1 SD of the mean 68% of the time, 2 SDs of the mean 95% of the time, and so on.
Through forumula or simulation, has anyone published these figures?