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- From: mannys@thebookstore.Eng.Sun.COM (Manuel 'Manny' Raposa)
- Newsgroups: rec.gambling
- Subject: Re: Software review: Stanford Wong's Video
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 16:24:58 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- Steve Jacobs writes:
-
- >Go for it. However, be warned that it can be difficult to interpret
- >the results of VP simulation because the game has a very high variance.
- >This simply means that the results will vary a *lot* from one simulation
- >to the next, because the occasional royal flush has a huge influence on
- >the outcome.
-
-
- Very true. I don't recall if I mentioned it, but the Wong VP tries
- to compensate for this. There is an explanation in the manual, but in essence
- it states that the Royal Flush, and the straight flush as well, tend to
- cause large fluctuations. Therefore during the analysis of a particular game,
- the software scans for and disregards any royal or straight flushes in the
- X number of hands you requested it to run during the simulation. It then takes
- the true and correct odds for each of these hands, mulitplies that times the
- payout schedule, then averages the whole thing out and adds some miniscule
- portion of the payout to the total $$$ won in the simulation for each hand
- simulated.
-
- That's a pretty brief explanation and possibly inaccurate as well, but
- I hope you get the picture.
-
-
- Manny
-
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- * Manuel J. Raposa | I've been to two zoos, *
- * manuel.raposa@Eng.Sun.Com| and a county fair, *
- * Sun Microsystems, Inc. | and I ain't NEVER seen nothing like this! *
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