Re: [vpFREE] different hands displayed on same machine at different denominations

Just to correct some of the follow-ups:

On IGT Game King machines each paytable has 1 meter to record the
history of that game. This is true regardless of how many
denominations that particular paytable is assigned to, so the casino
has no way of separating results from $2 or $5 play if they both have
the same paytable.

So it retains the hand history for each paytable as part of the
meter. So if you change denominations and there is a different
paytable you will see different "last" hands. This is clearly what
happened to you.

However, none of this has anything to do with the RNG. Each game is a
program in the machine. The RNG is another program which a game can
talk to when it needs information from the RNG as to which card to
hold. The RNG does not know about cards, it knows about numbers
between 1 and 52 (53, 54, 55, 56 or 57 for some Joker games). The
game program then converts that number to a card, makes sure it
hasn't already used that card during the current hand, and displays the card.

But there is only 1 RNG program running in the machine (OK,
technically a machine with a separate bonus program might have a
second RNG running for the bonus program but it is not necessary.)

Hope this resolves some confusion. Again, many different VP games in
a machine can make calls to 1 RNG program. (And, yes programmers I
have simplified some of this for the non-programmers since it is unimportant)

Bill

At 11:23 AM 7/1/2009, you wrote:
>both the slot attendant and i were surprised and confused by this.
>why would there be different hands at different denominations?
>
>did this machine have one RNG for the $1 denomination and another
>that handled both the $2 and $5 denominations?
>
>is that sort of thing common?
>
>i've never seen this happen... and i often, when asked to "play off"
>a hand, choose to change the denomination.
>
>have you encountered this before?
>

------------------------------------

vpFREE Links: http://members.cox.net/vpfree/Links.htm

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vpFREE/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vpFREE/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
mailto:vpFREE-digest@yahoogroups.com
mailto:vpFREE-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
vpFREE-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/