Can't improve dealt hand

[pokeherguy]

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[Benford's Law]

Pokherguy,         I read your story and I definitely can relate.  I gamble at 4-5 different casinos....some more than others, and I have noticed that the very WORST casino's video poker paytables (Terrible's here in Midwest USA).....I am ahead of this casino nearly $6,000 lifetime (mixed demoninations/BP/DB/DDB/BPDlx) even though the absolute best paytable they offer is 7/5 BP with a 98% return at the $1 denomination.        At three other casinos I gamble at, I am slightly in the hole at two of them and deeply in the hole at the third one.  The worst part?  The casino I am deepest in the hole with is the one that offers the BEST paytables...mostly 99% and one game over 100%.  It is, mathematically speaking, ridiculous from a long-term perspective, but that is what happening for me right now.        I would suggest taking all your play to the Grand for now and perhaps gamble a little at the Southland when your luck turns cold at the Grand.  I've experienced this "lucky casino/unlucky casino" phenomenon for myself, but I can't offer any further explanations as to whether it's simply a natural part of randomness or not.  Good luck!~Benford's Law        

[shadowman]

I've also experienced the "unlucky casino" syndrome several times. Currently the Fiesta Henderson has been very stingy. One particular casino in MN was unlucky for me over a 3 year period before it turned around. I limited my play during that time so it sort of became a self-fulfilling situation.
 
You do understand that you can only expect to hit that quad once every 23.5 tries? Given the number of dealt FHs you should not expect to hit one over quite a few trips. If you have it them more often in the past then you have been lucky.
 
I don't have the time to figure out the exact number but dealt 1-4 FHs probably happen about once every 2000 hands. That means you should only improve it once every 46500 hands. Less often than a RF. I'll post the exact numbers later if no one else does.
 
Update: dealt FH occurs once every 694 hands which leads to once every 2255.5 for aces-fours. Multipling by 23.5 yields once every 53004 hands. About the same frequency as dealt aces.

[pokeherguy]

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[pokeherguy]

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[shadowman]

 I have seen a few stories about racinos having the VP machines that were not run by RNG's so I am curious to find out as much as I can about this one.
 
It is usually quite easy to tell if the machine is not using an RNG. Generally, the result is sent to the machine from a central server and will give you a winning result no matter what you hold. Try throwing away a high pair, if you always get one on the draw then it is not a standard VP machine. These machines often have a bingo card or genie as part of the game that gives you a bonus win when you make the other wrong plays.
 
 

[MikeA]

The VP machines that I've seen that are tied to BINGO (Oklahoma) will display a complete translation on the Pay Help or Help screens.  They show the different Bingo Square combinations along with the resulting credit wins.  Those credit wins correspond to the poker hand paytables displayed on the game when on the play screen.

[rascal]

Assuming both casinos are regulated, the only differences worth noting are paytable and the overall aesthetics of each casino. When you play the same game with the same paytables at two completely different regulated casinos, it is exactly as though you took a break and then returned to the same machine. There is no difference other than location.
 
Just as you experience wildly different results from session to session, you are experiencing wildly different results from casino to casino. This is a matter of luck and happenstance. In time the worm will turn and you might find yourself doing poorly on dealt full houses at the Grand and not at Southland.
 
When I find myself doing well at a particular casino, inevitably I increase my sessions at that casino and thus I necessarily decrease my sessions at other casinos. That simply means that I win more where I play more, and win less where I play less. People who have a favorite casino because they win more there should analyze how many hands they play at the "good" casino vs the "bad" casino.
 
RNG's are the same from regulated casino to regulated casino. What changes are paytables, aesthetics, slot clubs, and such tangibles as distance from home and ease of parking. There is no way for one casino to consciously provide more or less dealt full house to quad conversions.
 
(Full houses are one of my "money" hands, particularly on larger denominations, so I would have a problem in the first place trying to upgrade to a quad, especially considering the odds against you.)

[knagl]

If it was a class II game, you'd actually get the full house back every time if you dumped the pair.  What VP game are you playing that you're constantly breaking up dealt full houses, though?

[MikeA]

If it was a class II game, you'd actually get the full house back every time if you dumped the pair.  What VP game are you playing that you're constantly breaking up dealt full houses, though?In DDB, you bust up a FH of Aces over in order to shoot for the 2000 credit jackpot hand.  There's quite a bit of EV in doing this.In that game (DDB), you should not bust up the 2-K OVER FH.  Your best EV is to hold the pat FH.  Just bust up the Aces over.