Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
Arc, I would be careful with substituting a 100 play machine for playing 100 individual hands. If by chance a royal is dealt it will skew the results.

I was once dealt a royal on a 50-play machine, and one night at Caesars I was dealt quads no less than four times playing quarters on a 50 play machine. (Actually there was a fifth time, but on that machine I was only playing 20 lines.) The machines were side by side, and I played the other while waiting for the hand pays.
That was why I threw in the 10-play thought. Still not a lot of time and less susceptible to the dealt hand problem. And, it's not just good dealt hands that could be a problem. Getting excessive poor dealt hands will also present a skewing of the results if the number of dealt hands is not large enough.