All below is true. At the time, I got his software I knew Rodger Pederson
as we were both tournament chess players. He did the graphics for Wong and
the first thing I asked him is why there was not two separate lines for the
FL and ST as casinos were in their infancy in the Chicago Area and by far
the best game was what is called Airport Deuces in LV (25-15-9-4-4-3).
VPEXACT did not have that issue and took 2hrs 10min on my 486/66 vs about
4-1/2 seconds for Winpoker 6.05 on my 2.66ghz P4. Still in 1991 it was head
and shoulders above what else was available and since it would run on any
PC or clone including the clunker 086 I had at work it had to do. When
10-7DB came to the Empress in 1995 VP Tutor was still only shareware and it
was great to have this to get a strategy for the game and progressive
indexes when the progressive was added about two years later.
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[Original Message]
From: Bob Dancer <bob.dancer@compdance.com>
To: <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Date: 11/1/2005 6:43:59 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] Wong's VPWong's vp software was the first I ever used. I worked out my
first strategies using it.It had strengths, but many shortcomings. For example, in Deuces
Wild games you had to have the flush and straight return the same
amount. Which is fine on FPDW, but not fine for many other games. If you
wanted the return on a game, you had to order another product (VP EXACT
--- I think), and it would take 4 or 5 hours to come up with a 99.544%
figure for 9/6 Jacks --- with no other statistics provided. It wasn't
simple to analyze a hand, and the results were displayed alphabetically
rather than in numeric sequence, so you had to hunt to find which one
was highest.I was working for Wong at the time doing monthly surveys for his
Current Blackjack News, we became friends, and he visited sometimes with
me on his trips to Vegas. When I finally obtained VP Tutor and showed it
to him (including all of the features I liked that Wong's vp was
missing), he spent about three minutes looking at it and came to the
correct conclusion: "This product is far superior to mine." I think he
later sold VPT on his website.Every video poker writer/programmer stands on the shoulders of
those who have gone before. Wong had pretty broad shoulders ---
intellectually speaking. Wong's written work on video poker
("Professional Video Poker") deals only with 8/5 Jacks or Better
Progressive. It is probably not in the top ten games on most video poker
players lists today, but when the book came out it was the most accurate
available. His software seems woefully out-of-date now, but it was the
first one. And it provided far better information than anything else
available at the time.When I get questions from people wanting to know how to play in
a video poker tournament, I recommend Wong's book "Casino Tournament
Strategy" --- even though it doesn't mention video poker at all. It's
not easy going, but people who understand what he's written there will
do better than those who don't.It's not a surprise to me that Wong belongs in Halls of Fame for
both video poker and blackjack. If there is ever a Pai Gow Poker or a
tournament hall of fame, he well might end up there too.Bob Dancer
For the best in video poker information, visit www.bobdancer.com
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