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Ask The Slot Expert7 August 2000
Dear Gene: I didn't go into enough detail about RNG cheating. RNG cheats know the RNG formula in the machine. With the formula, they can figure out where the RNG is in its cycle by playing a number of hands on the machine. One group of cheats had someone play a machine in a casino and radio to his accomplice what cards were dealt. The accomplice was in a van outside the casino. Inside the van was a computer that was programmed to emulate the video poker machine. It also had software in it to sync up the RNG in the emulator with the RNG in the real video poker machine. This is clearly cheating. If someone could figure out what the draw cards will be without some inside knowledge of the RNG, that wouldn't be cheating--but I think it's impossible. There are over 2.5 million pre-draw 5-card hands, more when you take the positions of the cards into account. There's no way anyone would be able to figure out the sequence. The RNG is how the video poker machine implements Lady Luck. When Lady Luck frowns on you, you either get poor cards from a manual shuffle or a result from the RNG that maps to poor cards. As for getting better hands when you play only two or three coins instead of five, all I can say is memory is very unreliable. Your wife probably remembers all the times that she had a bad streak of hands when playing max coins and doesn't remember the similar times when playing short coin. It's also likely that her money lasts longer when playing short coin. That could lead her to think that she gets better cards when playing short coin. The only way to prove that playing short coin doesn't improve the cards she gets is to keep track of the hands. Play a set number of hands at full coin and the same number of hands at short coin. Make a note of the outcome of each hand. It would probably take 100,000 or more hands to statistically prove the point, but a few thousand hands may be enough to convince her that it doesn't make a difference how many coins she plays. She should get roughly the same number of quads, full houses, straights, etc., regardless of how many coins she puts in. Best of luck in and out of the casinos! Send your slot and video poker questions to John Robison, Slot Expert, at slotexpert@home.com. For more information about slots and video poker, we recommend: Break the One-Armed Bandits! by Frank ScobleteVictory at Video Poker and Video Craps, Keno and Blackjack! by Frank Scoblete Slot Conquest Audio Cassette Tape (60 minutes) with Frank Scoblete Winning Strategies at Slots & Video Poker! Video tape hosted by Academy Award Winner James Coburn, Written by Frank Scoblete The Slot Machine Answer Book by John Grochowski This article is provided by the Frank Scoblete Network. Melissa A. Kaplan is the network's managing editor. If you would like to use this article on your website, please contact Casino City Press, the exclusive web syndication outlet for the Frank Scoblete Network. To contact Frank, please e-mail him at fscobe@optonline.net. Recent Articles
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