Win Poker

[LV Terry]

Hey! I downloaded the Win Poker shareware today....that is really Great!! I feel like less of a scrub already! hahahahaa Some of that stuff is just not intuitive.

Very Cool!

[HoyaHeel]

I downloaded it last night but haven't tried it yet smile.gif I've been using the Hoyle's Casino cd in practice mode--but the strategy CONSTANTLY contradicts itself--and all I'm playing is Jacks or Better, so no wild stuff to worry about. Hope the WinPoker is better--I'll try that tonight. My husband laughs--all week, every night he's come home, I've either been practicing video poker or posting on this website :D I make dinner most nights, so he can't complain too loudly ;)

[bigdogmom]

I downloaded the shareware about a year ago; then last August I asked for the full version for my birthday. It is so addicting!

I think there are a few bugs in it, though. It occasionally contradicts itself (like, on whether or not to hold nonconsecutive face cards with a deuce in Deuces Wild) but I still think it's great. The only thing I don't understand...I still haven't hit a natural royal flush, after playing something like 44000 hands (and this is just since August; I'm not including the hands I played on the shareware)! I also tend to do a lot better on it than on the actual machines in the casinos... Do you think they program it to give you better practice hands? I can't quite figure it out. Anyway, it was well worth the money.

[Dane]

It sounds like your odds are up to 44'000:1 so far. If that does not sound good. I was watching a casino show on TV last night that talked about slot machines. They said the actual odds are not known, but most think the odds of winning the Mega Bucks jackpot is 50'000'000:1, yes that's fifty million to one. Many state lotteries are around fourteen million to one. Funny, the lottery never looked so good.

[ March 15, 2002: Message edited by: Dane ]</p>

[HoyaHeel]

OK, I played more of the Win Poker shareware last night and understand the notation better now...Since it says there is not "strategy"--that all it is doing is calculating the odds of any potential hand, the contradictions we notice must have something to do with the cards that have already been played. Though it gets very annoying to a newbie trying to learn when to hold 2 high cards for a possible royal flush, or to hold the pair of 7s.....