Not hard at all. You should have had a little over 2.Quote: JoeleselyWhat are the odds of being dealt 4 to a royal flush, example akq10 of clubs and then drawing 96 hands with zero royal flush???? Or is this rigged?
Is this single line VP? If so, did you hit any royals on other draws? if not that would be over 6 cycles(depending how you play) still possible.
Quote: JoeleselyWhat are the odds of being dealt 4 to a royal flush, example akq10 of clubs and then drawing 96 hands with zero royal flush???? Or is this rigged?
The probability of not getting a royal flush within the first 96 draws to 4 to a royal is 13%.
A very good approximate formula for the probability of not getting a royal in a particular number of cycles, N, is: P = e-N
96 is 2.04 cycles. (2.04=96/47) So, the probability is: e-2.04=0.13
The bad news is that you still have a 13% chance of not getting a royal in the next 96.
should be easy to calculate the PROBABILITY using a calculator.Quote: JoeleselyWhat are the odds of being dealt 4 to a royal flush, example akq10 of clubs
(someone else can explain 'odds' that are related to probability but is not the same as)
gp > (binomial(4,1)*binomial(5,4)*binomial(47,1))/binomial(52,5)
%1 = 47/129948
gp > 1.*%1
%2 = 0.00036168313479237848985748145412010958229
gp > 1/%2
%3 = 2764.8510638297872340425531914893617021
(binomial(4,1)*binomial(5,4)*binomial(47,1))/binomial(52,5)
in words
4 suits that can be the Royal (4choose1)
5 ways to choose the 4 ranks of the Royal (5choose4)
that leaves 48 cards for the last on the deal, but 1 of them is the 5th card to complete the Royal.
47 cards remain choose 1 = 47
47*5*4/combin(52,5)= 940/2598960=47/129948=the probability
about 1 chance in 2,765
1 chance in 47 of getting that 5th Royal complete card (I am well over 100 times without any Royal in that situation)Quote: Joeleselyand then drawing 96 hands with zero royal flush????
that means 46/47 is the chance(probability) of NOT getting the 5th card to hit the Royal.
(46/47)^96=0.1268695734152(rounded)
about 1 in 7.8821 (10 in 79 or even 100 in 788)
no, just my opinionQuote: JoeleselyOr is this rigged?
there really is no guarantee. It happens when it happensQuote: JoeleselyWhat's the max draws on 4 royal to complete royal guaranteed? 1/1000?
because the event is an independent event
(unless the code in the machine is rigged like it was done in Vegas back in the late 1980s.
The American Coin Caper. Book: Licence to Steal. Can be found in Google books.)
(46/47)^1000= 4.5706055837236273344319610670313054778 E-10
about 1 in 2,187,893,884
I went almost 20 years before I got that 5th card for the Royal. (Age 21 to age 40)
Forget now how many rounds that was but it was a lot.
My best effort was when I lived in Reno and got 3 Royals in the same afternoon at 3 different casinos.
could not have been more 1,000 rounds played. And they were all on Deuces Wild. just 2 of them needed that 5th card to complete.
One Royal, after they paid me the progressive, the very next hand was dealt 3 Deuces, and yep, the 4th fell! My wife screamed at me because I was winning so much and she could only muster a few 4oaks!
one almost never knows when that Royal will hit.
My last 16 Royals, 15 have been when I needed 2 cards to complete
and 1 was just a few weeks ago when I needed 3 to complete. (In Hearts)
hope this helps
Quote: JoeleselyNo it's for practice online.
Because most people can't play optimally and some play really bad. If you were to see the average amount they are making on VP machines you would understand.Quote: JoeleselyBtw i have small question while we are here anyway. I once read that full pay double bonus poker is avail in some real casinos for real money. (Source wizzard of odds and payback is over 100% assuming optimal strategy, which in my opinion is difficult since optimal double bonus poker has too many exceptions to basic strategy vs jacks or better. although with optimal strategy payback is only 99.54% jacks or better has far less exceptions for optimal strategy. Example k10 suited vs 9 and other card is suited hold k alone. Or qj suited vs ak hold qj suited unless 9 or flush penalty ect.... but in double bonus poker there are way too many exceptions and harder to play optimal.) But nevertheless it's still possible to play double bonus poker with optimal strategy. So why would any casino offer a paytable thats over 100%??? Im having very hard time believing that. Casinos are a business not a handout.
Not many casinos offer good games anymore. Some games were set up as loss leaders. It's nice to be able to advertise we have over 100% payback machines.
Since most people don't like playing in a dead casino it's better to have people filling seats in your casino, even if you are losing a little bit from the smarter players.