Showing posts with label randomness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label randomness. Show all posts

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Randomness in Zynga Poker


DOH, this is one of the theory made by me supporting that Zynga Poker is not random.

1. Beginner's luck

Any person who starts playing Zynga poker usually has luck higher than a normal person. This is the reason you see that new player win most of the hands. It is made so that any new player get attracted and gets addicted playing Zynga poker.
U may think that , its the achievement thats adding to one's chip count, but it isn't.
It s beginner's Luck!!!

2. Pre-Determined winner (PDW)

The winner is pre-determined before the game begins. Which means that, no matter what card you have, if all go all-in then u win for sure( if u dont fold) assuming u r the pre determined winner. It is the same with a real Texas Holdem Poker u play with real cards. The 5 cards on the stack cannot be changed after the cards are dealt to players.
Consider that 9 players are playing on the table, there exists a pre-determined winner and a second winner ( in case the pre determined winner folds). So, for every 9 hands u play, in average, u r a PDW once and a second winner once. Therefore ur chances of winning is 2 out of 9 which is approx equaling to 25% and that is what ur winning percent would usually be.

3. Bait

Two kinds of bait exist. One is a simple bait where a player gets cards such as AA, KK, AK etc. He either goes all in or wait till the river to find that some else with a bad hand such as 7 3 off suit would win a flush, straight or a full-house. Awesome!!!
The other kind of bait is not yet named by me, it is same as the other bait but bait is made by normal cards. Something like this in the photo.


4. Luck factor

The % of winning hands is determined by luck factor that Zynga Poker provides u.
The scale is from 0 to 9

0 When playing after getting banned for sending chips.
1-2 Warning of any kind either for sending low amount chips or receiving chips or any other activity that is against the ToS.
2-3 Normal Luck
4 Supposed to be the ideal luck theoretically.
5-6 The extra luck u get when u buy in with more chips.
7 This luck is what i call a beginner's luck.
8 When u buy chips from poker.
9 Practically not possible to have it

So, these things support the discussion about ppl having AA, KK and QQ in the same round. But the one who has 66 wins with a Three of a kind or full house
All this is done just to make Zynga Poker more fun to play. Or else a fair play would yield a winner having pair of 8's or max of two pairs. But here we often see straights, flush full houses which go or doesn't match the odds given to them.

And BTW, if u have more chips and u keep losing them till u reach 0, dont think it s just because u played foolishly trying to recover lost chips by going all in even when u get an Ace, its because, Zynga wants u to lose chips, so that u can buy chips from them

If u have any theories of ur own which i would have missed then pls reply