Originally Posted by
tableplay
For the same coin-in, N-play vp is lower variance than 1-play.
FOR THE RECORD, I stated tableplay, the moron IS A FRAUD BECAUSE S/HE isn’t conversant. I stand by that statement. tableplay, learn to read what I wrote. That is partly why you are a fraud.
I don’t why tableplay, the moron would start attacking me over FARMVILLE, but s/he did. I just asked for feedback on the FarmVille game and tableplay got butthurt over my FarmVille post. tableplay started a flamewar.
Here is how dumb (besides math-challenged, logic-challenged, etc) tableplay is:
N-play has covariance and this is a KNOWN FACT. So I will give you the seminal article that explains N-Play variance from the guy who worked out the math way before WoO entered the gambling scene.
“ What is the variance of N-play games?
It turns out the the variance of N-play has a simple linear relationship to the variance and covariance. To compute the variance of an N-play version of a game from the list, just add the base game variance to (N-1) times the covariance. For example, the variance of 9/6 Jacks in the 4-play version is 19.510 + (4-1)x1.966 = 25.408. (Note that variance is always given in units of bets squared.) The percentage column in the table gives the correlation coefficent (=100%*Covariance/Variance), which makes it easy to see that 4-play Jacks has about 30.2% more variance than the standard game per base bet. That is, for all four draws together the variance would be 4x(1.302) = 5.208 base bets squared instead of the 4 base bets squared you would get on four independent plays.”
source:
http://jazbo.com/videopoker/nplay.html (the article was written over 20 years ago)
tableplay stated: For the same coin-in, N-play vp is lower variance than 1-play.
Jazbo stated: That is, for all four draws together the variance would be 4x(1.302) = 5.208 base bets squared instead of the 4 base bets squared you would get on four independent plays.
As I have been stating, tableplay is a fraud. tableplay is telling us 5.208 base bets squared < 4 base bets squared based on same coin in, same game or ceteris paribus. It’s so easy to spot the holes in tableplay’s stories.