Online Video Poker Practice:
March 8th, 2012 at 4:52:23 PM
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Does practicing online decrease your chances of winning in the casino?
I was practicing strategy this week, some on the wiz's site and some on other sites, and hit several four of kinds and even a royal. Does the fact that I hit a royal decrease my expectation of hitting a royal in the real casino? If a royal occurs roughly every 40,000 hands would I be less likely to hit a royal when I make my trip to Mesquite this weekend? (I understand that nothing changes the odds of the game and a royal technically could be hit several hands in a row, so I guess I am asking more about expectation or probability).
Thanks in advance for any comments.
I was practicing strategy this week, some on the wiz's site and some on other sites, and hit several four of kinds and even a royal. Does the fact that I hit a royal decrease my expectation of hitting a royal in the real casino? If a royal occurs roughly every 40,000 hands would I be less likely to hit a royal when I make my trip to Mesquite this weekend? (I understand that nothing changes the odds of the game and a royal technically could be hit several hands in a row, so I guess I am asking more about expectation or probability).
Thanks in advance for any comments.
March 8th, 2012 at 6:05:03 PM
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It makes no difference.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
March 8th, 2012 at 9:30:52 PM
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As thecesspit says, it makes absolutely no difference. Even hitting a royal on a live machine has no impact on your chance to hit a royal on the next spin or any future spins.
