Citeren SnowDog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Well... it's still queens or better, though they did implement some sort > of > > delay preventing a bot from playing too many hands too fast. They also > fail to > > mention that I also lost money from time to time, but overall the bot did > > indeed win. > > There's no reason a bot should win. Even their version of Jacks or Better > takes more than the Vegas versions. There are no profitable games there.
I agree that most of their games have lower payouts than the Vegas versions. Usually the higher payouts are lower than in the brick and mortar casinos from what I found on the internet. I did a mathematical analysis on all of their games and indeed all but one were below 100% expected payout (some slot machines even below 90% as I detailed in a post to this list last summer). That said, their joker poker is different though. All the vegas machines are kings or better, this one is queens or better for even money. This gives a tremendous advantage, which offsets any lower payout for a royal flush. What I did was for every possible initial hand, determine the best strategy by adding up the payouts for all possible continuations and choosing the strategy with the best average payout. This took quite a lot of computer time (about 120 hours on a pretty fast machine), but in the end I ended up with a list of strategy's that has a net advantage of 1.2%. > They should be happy to have a bot play as many hands as possible, even if > every hand gives the bot an additional chance to win the bar. The bar is > only being given because they hope to win more money from those playing. The > more a bot plays, the more they should win -- bar or no bar. I wonder why they limited the speed of joker poker to about 1 game per 15/20 seconds then. All the other games can be played at unlimited speed. > It's only 101.2% if played with the payouts in Vegas -- not at > TheGoldCasino.com. I clearly dispute that. In fact, from the analysis I found on the web, the Vegas kigs-or-better machine only gives a 0.6% advantage: http://www.thewizardofodds.com/game/vidpoktables.html#jokerwild Edwin --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
