Actually the math at BJ is more complicated in that deck composition even
at single deck has many more possibilities. (You always make your VP
decision after seeing exactly five cards while many more cards may have
been played when you make a BJ decision.) Parametized card counting would
be more accurate and more profitable but the downside is that without a
computer it is all but impossible. ( Actually some players hid small
computers designed for this and had about a 4% edge in some games but if
you got caught it was a felony not counting the fact that some casinos
would have such players beaten to a pulp!)
Actually the math in video poker as shown by software such as Frugal VP,
Winpoker 6, Optimum VP is completely accurate. So are older software
products VPTutor and Winpoker. These programs will show you the correct
play for Many people in this group use the above software to generate
perfect strategies for some games and almost perfect strategies for other
games. People like Bob Dancer look for every little difference including
many that do not add a lot to the player advantage but if you play the game
for serious money why give the casino anything extra!! (The casinos sure
want to take every penny they can from you.) Actually when you see this
group discussing "penalty cards" it is the same concept in VP that
card-counting is at BJ but has a much smaller impact.
[Original Message]
From: <cbres77376@aol.com>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 11/24/2005 8:57:37 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] Videopoker:How reliable is the Math?In Blackjack counting over the years what was important to your play
had to
be re-arrainged.Despite decades of math testing by Professors and others
complicated systems were later "found" to yield no more return than
simple Hi
-low.
People (not me to scared to bet big) invested $$ in higher level
systems,
learned to count on their toes, twisted their ring around to count aces,
learn
arcane memory word systems to keep indices in your head (this idiot
guilty).To
find after wasting a good chunk of their time that side counts got you
nadda.etc.
I know this was back in the old days when a 100 million hands run
seemed like a big number to us math impaired but Videopoker is a much
more
complicated game what are the changes that if you rely on some of the
finer math
pointsof the game in 10 years they going to say oophs we really should
have run a
100 trillion hands to be in tolerance and actually prove results?
PS I like math people because I flunked out.(No one told us
there would
be anything interesting (gambling, computer graphics, etc.)) to do with
this
stuff.WHEN I was a kid you had to take on faith that anything you had to
slap
···
yourself in the face to stay awake for was good for you.
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