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Odds payout............?
I'm looking for the best return on investment. There are computers playing poker. There is a $2,000 entry fee each. If you play with 3 other computers and you win, you will get $5,400 + your 2,000 back. If you play with 5 others and you win, you get $5,215 + your 2,000 back. But there is also a payoff of $1,885 + your 2,000 for second place. Assuming the computers will all win equally as often. Should I enter on the 6 seat or 4 seat?
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- LegFuJohnsonLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
If everything is equal, and you played the 4 seater game 12 times, you'd win 3.
$5400 * 3 = $16,200 + $6000 means $22,200. Of course, it cost you $24,000 to play.
The 6 seater, played 12 times, you'd win 2, and come in 2nd place twice.
$5215 * 2 = 10,430 + 4000 = 14,430
$1885 * 2 = 3770 + 4000 = $7,770
You'd get back $22,200.
Same deal, but you lose either way. Best return on investment is not to play.
It's almost like whoever runs the games sets it up so that there isn't one better game than the other (otherwise why play the worst choice)
Source(s): Basic math skills. - Divide By ZeroLv 78 years ago
Probably neither. I'm assuming this is a game the computers are good at such as Limit Hold'em. At that game, computers are better than the best pros in the world. So any investment against such computers will yield a negative ROI. What you're really asking is which is less negative. I don't know the answer to that, I just know they're both negative unless it's No-Limit Hold'em (which I doubt they'd be foolish enough to offer unless computers have made a sudden leap forward in that game too).
