Need a video poker math person

[Alan Mendelson]

I think I need a video poker math person...

How many hands do you have to play to reach the "expected value" of a particular game?

For example, if the return of Aces and Faces is 99.2 percent, how many hands of play are needed to reach that return?

Is there such a number of hands?

[slingshot]

Easy. One hand-at the right place at the right time.

[arcimede$]

Let's see ... if you play one hand and end up with a pair of aces you are at 100%. Is that close enough? No ... what if you got a FH? Now, you would be at 800%.

[Alan Mendelson]

Let's see ... if you play one hand and end up with a pair of aces you are at 100%. Is that close enough? No ... what if you got a FH? Now, you would be at 800%.

Thank you Arc, that is exactly what I thought. On ANOTHER forum, someone wrote that it took about 80 hands to see the true "expected value" and that just didn't make sense to me.