Why Were Two Analyses on Bob Dancer Software Different?

I was having a friendly argument with my niece about the percentage of a 9/5 penny machine with the progressive at $1,200, e.g., equivalent quarter machine at 6000 coins. I ran the 6000 coins through my Bob Dancer analyzer routine and found the game at 100.23. She ran the same 6000 coins through her Bob Dancer analyzer routine and her number was at 99.50. Two questions. 1. Which number is correct? And 2. Why are the two numbers different? Could it be that we are using two different versions of Bob Dancer software?

[Editor's Note: Bob Dancer answered yesterday's question. And today's.]

The only way a penny game with a $1,200 royal flush is equivalent to a 6,000-coin royal in a quarter game is if the penny game requires 20 coins to fully load. If this isn’t true, both of your numbers are wrong.

You didn’t say which game you were playing. This makes it a lot harder to check than just knowing the 9 and 5. Checking 9/5 Jacks or Better with a 6000-coin royal returns 99.53%, which is close to your niece's result.

How you got 100.23% is a mystery. I'm betting it's some sort of user error. I suspect you put the 6,000-coin royal flush on 8/5 Bonus Poker rather than 9/5 Jacks or Better. That brings you to 100.2358%. While I would call this 100.24%, some people may call it 100.23%. If this was indeed your error, once you switch to 9/5 Jacks or Better, the numbers you and your niece get will align.

Different versions of my software do not explain this error. They all figure simple things like this correctly. What the software cannot do, unfortunately, is make sure the user is analyzing the game they want to analyze.

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Lotel Feb-18-2022

analyzer??

What or where  is the "Bob Dancer analyzer routine" ??  Also, " penny game requires 20 coins to fully load" Never seen a penny VP game. where are they. 20 to fully load?? What is that?  I am still new to VP

Kevin Lewis Feb-18-2022

This was pretty useless

A dialogue (or maybe, lecture) between Dancer and somebody who doesn't know how to use his software. Not interesting or enlightening.

Let's return the QoD to really interesting stuff, like how many light bulbs on the Strip blow out every 24 hours.

Brent Feb-18-2022

Please make all QODs apply to Kevin Lewis

I will concede that this was a pretty niche QOD. But seeing Kevin "I spew nonsense in the comments section several times a week" Lewis complain about something being useless was well worth including this in the QOD.

Also worth the (free) price of admission, reading Bob Dancer put only a slight veneer of politeness on the multiple iterations of "you don't know what you are doing" in his answer.

Roy Furukawa Feb-18-2022

Lol!

@Brent needs a new funny bone. Have to agree with Kevin this is a very specific niche question. I would have suspected the QoD writer and niece were inputting their info on two different type games before saying the software is incorrect. Computers do what you tell them to do.

Haskell Deutsch Feb-18-2022

Penny Machines

There are casinos in the LV area that have penny, two cent and nickel machines which take up to 30 coins per line, up to ten play.

Kevin Lewis Feb-18-2022

It must be a Friday thing

For many (all too many) folks, the definition of "nonsense" is "stuff I don't agree with and/or don't want to read but somehow, I wind up reading over and over anyway."

I didn't know my writing was so compelling as to force someone to read it who doesn't want to. I need to figure out a way to monetize that.

O2bnVegas Feb-18-2022

always hoping

Kevin, we read your stuff because, well, like the old saying, "Hope springs eternal..."

LOL

Candy

Anthony Curtis Feb-18-2022

Interest level?

I found this QoD very interesting. It depends on what an individual is interested in. Can't make everyone happy 365. Dig?

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