Originally Posted by
indio
You're the one who needs a clue son. I too was once skeptical of the casino, so I decided to actually test it the only way it can be tested, by keeping track of every session, and tracking hands (easy to do), all win and loss amounts, and tracking every winning hand type and comparing it to the mathematical probabilities. After a year, I can say it's completely legitimate, as all numbers are spot on. I play a game that has a 99.95% payback to the player. After 864,286 hands, I have been paid out 100.17%. This number will fluctuate due to variance. After apx. 500,000 hands, I was at 99.89%, reached the lowest point at around the 610,000 hand mark at 99.63%, and have had a good run the last 250,000 hands to be at the current 100.17% mark. I have slightly more full houses, flushes, and straights than average, slightly less quads, and I have been lucky to have 31 straight flushes in that time when the probability would be 22. But when you study bi-nomial distributions and variance, it's reasonable to expect fluctuations. In this time, I have received $17,000 in bonus money, so I'd say the apx. $28 an hour I've profited while compiling these numbers have been worth my time. What I learned about variance has been priceless. The hot and cold streaks you can go on is amazing, and I've become a better gambler by doing this study just from the acquired knowledge from tracking variance in different statistical categories.
There has been casino software proven to be rigged, of course it's out there. Like ANYTHING, there are honest and dishonest companies. Bovada's casino is definitely within the parameters of a legitimately random distribution. I too used to shout "It's rigged" about Bovada casino, but after 864,286 hands, I'm now positive that it's a legitimate casino with fair games.