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Videopoker:How reliable is the Math?

#1

It's called a "coin-out" system, like Coast has.

Brian

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In a message dated 11/29/2005 10:00:16 AM Pacific Standard Time,
harry.porter@verizon.net writes:

Tom Robertson wrote:

I was comparing the variance of treating cash back as a reduction in
coin in with that of allocating cash back only to paying hands. I
assume there is a difference between these.

There's a difference, but allocating cash back only to paying hands
isn't representative of any meaningful account of cashback.

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#2

bjaygold wrote:

It's called a "coin-out" system, like Coast has.

The earlier discussion was somewhat vague in that Tom's suggestion of
adding cb only to paying hands didn't explicitly state whether a fixed
amount would be added or a variable amount.

Your comment suggests adding a variable amount that is equal to the cb
rate times the hand win. That indeed is a more accurate analysis of a
coin-out system than when a fixed amount is added to all hands played,
winning or non-winning (or when the % is merely added to game return
and all other variables are assumed to be constant).

In this case, the calculated variance would be higher than for a
coin-in system. This makes sense since a coin-out system is based
upon a variable factor in the calculation of cashback.

- H.