OpVP Announcement

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Optimum Video Poker

Optimum Video Poker™ (OpVP™) is the only video poker analysis and trainer program being marketed directly by its principal developer (who is also a regular player), so you know that it's designed for serious players.

Although the game can be played just for fun, there are no unnecessary frills. (If you want music, turn on your stereo. If you want the sound of coins dropping, rattle some pennies in a coffee can.) Instead, OpVP is designed to be highly functional, providing the tools you need to improve your skills. Many of these tools are not currently available on any other such program.

What makes Optimum Video Poker special?

• Fastest game analysis available
• Widest variety of bankroll calculations
• Easy hand analysis and penalty card examination
• Easy to enter a hand or to change just one card
• Keyboard shortcuts for almost all functions
• Runs native on both Macintosh and Windows
• See below for details
  
  

System requirements:

Minimum on either platform:
15MB of free hard drive space
12MB of RAM space
800x600, 256 color display
Times New Roman, Courier and Helvetica fonts installed

Macintosh: Any Macintosh Power PC
OS 8.5.1 or later (runs in Classic mode on OS X)
(We hope to be able to offer an OS X native version soon.)

Windows: Any Pentium I or later (or equivalent)
Windows 95b, 98, NT, 2000 or XP (Home or Pro)
(OpVP will run on Windows ME, and all functions and calculations are accurate, but there are known display problems that are not covered by warranty. Also, it will be necessary to hide the tool bar at the bottom of the screen on any Windows system with only 800x600 display.)

General features:

• Large, clean card images for easy play (the above example screen is reduced; the actual game window is 774x512 pixels)
• Play much as on a casino machine
• Play with only the mouse, only the keyboard, or both
• Balloon help for most features
• Easy installation (just copy one folder to your hard drive)
• More features will be added with each release
  
  

Games:

• Handles the most popular game structures
• Jacks or Better, including various bonus poker games
• Bonus hands with A, 2, 3 or 4 kicker
• Bonus hands with A, K, Q or J kicker
• Deuces Wild, including certain bonus versions
• Joker Wild with one or two jokers
• More than 40 pre-analyzed games supplied with program
• Create a "new" game easily by editing any existing game's name and payoff table
• Share new games with other users by e-mail, even between Windows and Macintosh platforms
  
  

Game analysis:

• This new algorithm, developed by mathematician Yuri Sorkin, will do a complete game analysis in less than one second on most of the current generation of personal computers
• Results are saved with each game variation for instant recall
• High precision results used directly for all other calculations
• Analyze for short-coin play without modifying payoff table
  
  

Hand analysis:

• Almost instantaneous
• Analyze any hand at any time, even a final hand
• Shows all 32 ways of playing the hand, sorted by EV
• Gives true Expected Values (instead of expected payoff for 5-coin bet)
• Enter a hand to be analyzed without leaving the game window
• Change just one or more cards without re-entering entire hand
• Just type cards desired (no cumbersome drag-and-drop)
  
  

Training features:

• Strategy Check compares every hold selection with best play
• User-specified error threshold for Strategy Check
• Analyze any hand at any time (even after the draw)
• Investigate penalty card situations easily
• Hint button shows best way to play a hand
• Auto Hint shows best play for every hand dealt
• Auto Hold automatically holds best cards for you
  
  

Bankroll considerations:

• Variance and Standard Deviation
• Standard Deviation curves (plus and minus 1, 2 and 3 SD)
• Attractiveness Index for quick game and casino comparison
• Risk of Ruin using the famous Sorokin formula
• Cost of a Royal (for progressive jackpot evaluation)
• Poisson Distribution calculates royal flush probabilities
• All calculated directly from precision game analysis data
• Work in betting units or in dollars and cents
• Calculate slot club values
• Include slot club value in most calculations
  
  

Players:

• Create any number of player personalities
• Separate preferences for each personality
• History saved separately for each player personality
  
  

Player preferences:

• Dealing speed
• Win counting speed (or instant credits)
• Game window background color
• Auto Hint, Auto Hold, Check Strategy
• Strategy check error threshold
• Change preferences at any time between hands
  
  

Player history:

• Number of hands played
• Percentage of hands played perfectly
• Percentage of potential EV achieved
• Effective win/loss rate
• Much more
• History can be cleared without changing preferences
  
  

Keno game analyzer:

• Included as a bonus feature
• Show your friends just how bad keno games are
• Determine whether a progressive makes a game attractive
  
  

Ordering Information:

Introductory price, only $25.00 for delivery by e-mail. Alternatively, send $30.00 for delivery by snailmail on CD (sorry, no fancy label or packaging yet).

Before ordering for delivery by e-mail, please be sure you are able to receive a 2.4MB attachment. Some users on AOL have had problems receiving the attachment. There may also be problems sending it through Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.

Sorry, but there can be no refunds on software. The warranty is limited to repair of any bugs. There is no warranty on the screen refresh problems in Windows ME.

Historical ordering information removed.

"Optimum Video Poker" and "OpVP" are trademarks of a historical video-poker writer. The software and this page are Copyright 2004 by a historical video-poker writer. All rights reserved. No copies may be made without prior written permission of a historical video-poker writer.